The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Small Business
MOREE Plains Shire Council has announced the successful recipients of the Small Business Fund initiative for the 2024-25 financial year, with $20,000 awarded to support four projects. Council received eight applications from diverse industries, with four Moree small businesses each receiving $5000. Recipients include DeliciousNESS to incorporate a hole in the wall serving counter to [...]
Regional News
WORK has started on the NSW New England region’s first large-scale battery energy storage system, located on-site at ACEN Australia’s 720 MW New England Solar project, near Uralla. The 200MW/2 hour battery energy storage system – BESS – is the first of two planned systems being built by international energy storage specialist Energy Vault and [...]
Junior Sport
JUNIOR cricketers from across the plains proudly represented Moree Junior Cricket Club at the NSWPSSA Girls Cricket Championships at the Central Coast Regional Sporting and Recreation Complex at Tuggerah last week. The central coast championships, an annual event, brings together teams from across New South Wales, and includes representatives from each PSSA zone. Also competing [...]
Education
THE State Government aims to improve education outcomes for all students as ambitious academic, HSC attainment and school attendance targets are introduced to public schools to lift outcomes for students from Kindergarten to Year 12. However, the NSW Teachers Federation says that while the government has revealed key performance targets, the most critical target needed [...]
Regional News
THE southern hemisphere’s largest formation aerobatic display team will perform its special fly-over routine at the 2025 Armidale Autumn Festival on Saturday, April 5. Freedom Formation – made up of 13 passionate aviators – will perform its signature multi-layer display routine over Armidale at 11.45am before the Autumn Festival parade begins at 12-noon. All eyes [...]
Regional News
AFTER months of anticipation, the new multi-million dollar Inverell Aquatic Centre will open its doors to the public this week. Hines Construction handed over the facility to Council last Friday after reaching practical completion, with plans to open the facility to the public on Thursday, February 27. The facility was officially granted World Aquatics Accreditation [...]
Police News
A man will face court today charged with murder following a stand-off with police in Tamworth at the weekend. Emergency services were called to a home unit on Goonoo Goonoo Road, Tamworth, at about 4.30pm Saturday, February 22 following reports of a concern for welfare. On arrival, officers attached to Oxley Police District found a [...]
Gomeroi Markets
THE Gomeroi Nations Markets at Jellicoe Park on Sunday closed the curtain on a culturally significant week in Moree. The local community came together during the week to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Freedom Ride. On Saturday, nearly 4000 people lined Boughton Oval to watch the ABCARE Greater Western Challenge, won by Cabbage [...]
News
HUNTER New England Local Health District has welcomed 237 new graduate nurses and midwives to its workforce, providing a boost to local health services across the District, including hospitals at Moree, Gunnedah, Armidale and Tamworth. The graduates join the District under NSW Health’s GradStart program, the annual state-wide intake of graduate nurses and midwives. The [...]
Law and Order
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has called an emergency meeting with the Commissioner of Corrective Services over inmates languishing in police cells, putting unprecedented strain on the front line. Commissioner Webb says gridlock across the jail system is causing congestion leading to “cell ramping” with bail-refused inmates locked up in police stations for days. The [...]
