The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Northern Tablelands
It is great to see BackTrack’s Night Crew program receive $120,000 in funding from the NSW Government for it to be continued. The program sees youth workers on Armidale streets between 8pm and 7am three nights per week to engage young people at risk. The trial earlier in the year was hugely successful with a [...]
Border News
GOONDIWINDI Regional Council has secured a $200,000 grant from the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads for essential compliance upgrades to the more than 40−year−old Texas Apex toilets. The estimated $250,000 project will connect the toilets to the town’s sewerage, which will deliver environmental compliance and reduce on-going costs. The Texas Apex toilets were [...]
Junior Sport
A group of Moree junior soccer players took on the world at the Inverell Sporting Complex last weekend in the Rale Rasic Joeys Mini World Cup, and returned home laden with trophies, new friendships and memories that will last forever. Sarsha Maas, Aiynzlee Magarry, Anabelle Honour, Lucy-Grace Ryan, Jazmine Magarry and Emma Chick joined four [...]
Regional News
NARRABRI Shire Council has received approval from the NSW Department of Health to blend water from the Tibbereena Street bore with water from the Elizabeth Street bore to supplement the town’s supply. Level 4 water restrictions will remain in place to help rebuild the reservoir and secure water for essential use. While the Tibbereena Street [...]
Regional Tourism
THE Uralla Arts Society runs a variety of events and now they will be able to amplify that to a wider audience, thanks to a Community Building Partnership grant. Member for Northern Tablelands, Brendan Moylan, delivered $10,839 to the Uralla Arts Society for the purchase of new sound equipment to bolster their range of events. [...]
Fatal Crash
AN 11-year-old boy has died and another 11-year-old boy is in a serious condition following a crash 50km north-west of Inverell this morning. At about 11.05am today), emergency services were called to Girraween Road, Graman, after reports of a crash. Officers attached to New England Police District attended and found a utility had left the [...]
Our Community
THE problem with being a clinical nurse, is the need to be so damn clinical. Palliative care clinical nurse consultant, Fiona Lysaught, and Moree District Hospital Health Service manager, Lee Clissold, are the first to agree a clinical mindset is all part of the job. And it’s this mindset that brought about an incredible initiative [...]
Regional News
NARRABRI township moved to Level 4 Water Restrictions from midnight last night, following a significant and continued drop in the Namoi Street Reservoir level over the past week. The decision came as the Elizabeth Street bore remains the only active source supplying the Narrabri town water network. The Killarney Street and Tibbereena Street bores remain [...]
Local Government
THE peak body for New South Wales councils has acknowledged this week’s announcement of the rate pegs for the 2026-27 financial year. In New South Wales, any increases in council rates are capped by the State Government via a ‘rate peg’ imposed on each individual council, with Moree Plains Shire Council allocated a 3.1 per [...]
Our Community
MOREE Men’s Shed members acted with military precision when members of Moree RSL Regional Military Museum asked about commissioning a special project recently. Military museum president John Williams and his committee members are often called up to speak at official engagements each year, especially around Anzac Day and Remembrance Day. Museum executive member, Darryl Brady, [...]
