The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Local Racing
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD apprentice Jade Metcalfe celebrated her “30th” in fine style at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel TAB meeting on Tuesday when Mootessa angled between runners at the top of the straight to comfortably win the 1600m Syngenta Australia BM-58 Handicap. Metcalfe, apprenticed to Wayne Nugent at Toowoomba, reduced her claim to one-and-a-half kilos when [...]
Border News
Goondiwindi Regional Council will extend its fee waiver for new residential builds in existing water and sewerage areas for another 12 months to further encourage housing development across the region. The fee waiver represents savings of up to $10,000. Adopted at Council’s July Ordinary Meeting on Wednesday, the initiative waives water connection, plumbing and drainage, [...]
Police News
A man is due in court today charged after drugs and weapons were seized during a vehicle stop at Armidale on Tuesday. At about 9am yesterday, officers attached to Traffic and Highway Patrol Command were patrolling the New England Highway when they stopped a ute for a random testing. The driver – a 51-year-old man [...]
Clean Energy
A trailblazing project west of Moree that will reduce carbon emissions and create the state’s first large-scale green hydrogen and ammonia production facility has been given the green light to kick the project into the next gear. The Good Earth Green Hydrogen and Ammonia project near Moree has now secured all the financial approvals to [...]
Local History
A new edition of Stories from the Plains will be published this week, with editor Adam Mitchell saying there is one important change to the free, quarterly journal enriched with local and regional history – its name. The local studies journal, previously published as Stories of our Town, has been rebadged Stories from the Plains [...]
Local Racing
RARELY is Collarenebri trainer Kelly Smith stuck for a few words. But when his popular galloper Ringside lobbed at $61 at the Moree Ag Supplies and Steel TAB meeting on Tuesday, he could barely put a sentence together. Rising 10-year-old Ringside and his trainer are one of bush racing’s most popular double-acts, and the crowd [...]
Agriculture
FARMERS from across New South Wales are in Sydney this week to discuss critical issues such as the future of farming and the energy transition. NSW Farmers’ chief executive Annabel Johnson said the NSW Farmers’ Annual Conference was a chance to bring the perspective from the paddock to the city as Australia faced a range [...]
Parkes Electorate
This is my first column as the Federal Member for Parkes, an electorate that covers more than 400,000 square kilometres of New South Wales. It’s an area bigger than Japan, Germany, or even Great Britain. I follow in the footsteps of some great Federal Members, most recently the Honourable Mark Coulton who ably represented this [...]
Our Community
AN incredible journey across Australia to raise much-needed funds for cancer research and support made a pitstop at Croppa Creek this week, en route to Byron Bay on the New South Wales north coast. The Kicking Cancer’s A55 Across Australia tour began six weeks ago from Australia’s most western point – Steep Point in the [...]
Rugby League
PLAYERS from Moree Boars and Moree Boomerangs represented Group 4 and Group 19 respectively in the Northern Region Tri-Series rugby league competition at Tamworth’s Scully Park on Saturday. The Tri Series was won by Group 4 across three grades, with first-grade – captained by Moree Boars’ Brent McDonald – beating Group 21 narrowly, 26-18 for [...]
