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Police News
A teenager has been charged over the alleged break-and-enter last week of a doctor’s residence attached to Walgett Aboriginal Medical Service. Officers from Central North Police District responded to reports at about 11.15pm last Thursday of a SUV allegedly being driven erratically in Walgett. It will be alleged that upon locating the SUV officers attempted [...]
Police News
NSW Police are appealing for assistance to locate a man missing from Gunnedah. Keith Noel Bagnall, aged 51, was last contacted about 1pm on Monday, June 23. When he was unable to be contacted, Keith was reported missing to officers attached to Oxley Police District who commenced inquiries into his whereabouts. Following inquiries, police believe [...]
Off-Road Racing
MOREE rider Camo Loder came, saw and conquered at his first Tatts Finke desert race earlier this month, returning home the winner of his class in the iconic off-road, multi-terrain two-day race for bikes, cars and buggies. Held each year on the King’s Birthday long weekend in June, the Tatts Finke Desert Race covers desert [...]
Bush Racing
TALMOI picnic races on Saturday wrapped up another successful Golden Triangle – the heart of bush racing in the heart of the country – as local racing heads toward Mungindi, Wean, Moree and Goondiwindi in the coming weeks. Moree picnic races on May 24 celebrated its 101st year on the bush racing calendar with six [...]
BAMM 2025
BANK Art Museum Moree is nearly at the halfway mark of its 2025 exhibition program, with adored indigenous performer Roger Knox headlining a slew of performances and exhibitions scheduled for the next six months. Knox, affectionately known as the ‘Johnny Cash of Australian country’, will perform at BAMM on Friday, July 4 from 6pm with [...]
Regional Tourism
ARMIDALE Folk Museum has unveiled a suite of new digital assets that will be used to create and enhance interactive exhibits and transform the way local history is preserved and shared with the community. At a special launch event, community members, museum stakeholders, and representatives from Armidale Regional Council used the equipment and explored interactive [...]
Group 4
WERRIS Creek Magpies retained the coveted Daniel and Troy Wilson Memorial Shield after comprehensively beating Moree 42-14 in the Group 4 rugby league top-of-the-table first-grade clash at David Taylor Oval on Saturday. The Boars left Werris Creek with more questions than answers after all three grades were beaten by the Magpies. The second-grade scoreline mirrored [...]
Group 4
MOREE Boars second-grade outfit suffered their first loss for the season after copping a 42-12 thumping from Werris Creek Magpies in Group 4 rugby league at David Taylor Oval on Saturday. Winger Steve Le Milliere scored for Moree in the opening minutes, but that’s where it stopped, with hooker David Annis-Brown scoring just before the [...]
Local Government
NARRABRI Shire Council and Glen Innes Severn Shire Council have joined the stand against the illegal tobacco trade. Narrabri Shire Council will write to NSW Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure to formally express its serious concerns regarding the unlawful sale of tobacco product from tobacconist premises within the Narrabri Local Government Area and across the north-western [...]
The Golden Triangle
TAMWORTH jockey Sarah Curtis gave Quirindi trainer Geoff O’Brien the third leg of a winning treble at Talmoi on Saturday when they teamed up to win the 1200m Providore Global-Toowoomba Truck Spares Col Goldman Class 1 Handicap with five-year-old mare Akauwheo. O’Brien, a former picnic jockey who rode when weights and distances were measured in [...]
