The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Project Pathfinder
A new cohort of teenagers from regional communities will receive game-changing mentorship from leading NRL staff and will interact with some of the biggest names in the game as part of a renewed police initiative. For the second year, NSW Police Force has partnered with the National Rugby League and Youth Justice to bring fifteen [...]
History
IT took Reuben Ackland more than two years to recover from the Murulla train disaster – if he really recovered at all. He lost his wife Kate in the 1926 tragedy, and life thereafter was never the same for the New South Wales Railways’ fettler. Twenty-seven men, women and children were killed and more than [...]
HealthWISE
A free program is making it easier for people in Moree to access specialist diabetes care, right in their own community. The HealthWISE Diabetes Shared Care program brings together a large team of health professionals such as diabetes educators, podiatrists, dietitians and exercise physiologists, to provide co-ordinated care, tailored to individual needs. Program care manager [...]
Law and Order
THE NSW Government, NSW Police Force and NSW judiciary were represented at a crime-focused general meeting of the Country Mayors Association of NSW at Parliament House last week, ahead of NSW Police Minister Yasmin Catley’s visit to the north-west region this week. More than 120 mayors and general managers met last Friday to hear from [...]
Year of Scotland
THE countdown begins for one of Australia’s most unique and immersive cultural events, the 2026 Australian Celtic Festival at the Australian Standing Stones in Glen Innes, from April 30 to May 3 next year. Glen Innes Severn Council has announce applications are now open for traders, performers, and clans and societies wanting to be part [...]
Police News
FURTHER charges have been laid – including three counts of manslaughter – following the death of motorcyclist Daniel McNamara at Gunnedah earlier this year. At about 7.15am, on January 28, officers attached to Traffic and Highway Patrol attempted to stop a ute – which had been reported stolen from Moree – on the Kamilaroi Highway, [...]
VP Day
FRIDAY marks the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Pacific, commemorating the end of Australia’s involvement in World War II, with a service in Moree planned. The special day marks the formal acceptance of surrender terms by the Japanese government, effectively ending the war on August 15, 1945. Events are planned across Australia – and [...]
2025 Moree Cup
SWITCHING from professional rugby league to the wine industry was a big sidestep for Daniel Mortimer – but the former NRL star is loving every minute of it. Mortimer now helps run the family vineyard at Orange – Mortimers Wines – and has been locked in as guest speaker at the Moree Race Club’s huge [...]
Bulky Waste
MOREE shire residents are encouraged to register now for Moree Plains Shire Council’s free, bulky waste collection drive, scheduled for September. Moree Plains Shire Council interim director of infrastructure, Michael Malone, said the bulk collection service will operate across parts of the Moree Plains, allowing households up to three cubic metres of permitted waste to [...]
Art and Culture
A powerful new exhibition featuring four emerging artists who share their deep connections to country is now open at Bank Art Museum Moree following its launch last month. Lines of Land, Patterns of Self marks the debut of talented artists Janice ‘Genus’ Giffin, David ‘Crockett’ Craigie, Glenda Nicholls and George See – all who have [...]
