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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 [...]
Regional News
A new $2.5 million state-of-the-art Lung Health Mobile Clinic has been unveiled and will soon provide lung health checks to thousands of people across New South Wales. The lung bus program provides free lung screening checks to more than 5000 workers annually in regional New South Wales, including Tamworth. Lung health checks can be lifesaving [...]
Border News
THE Inglewood community celebrated the grand re-opening of the refurbished Casa Mia independent living aged-care facility at the weekend, with five newly refurbished independent living units ensuring more vulnerable elderly people have the opportunity to remain in Inglewood. Queensland Minister for Housing, Sam O’Connor, joined Goondiwindi Regional Council mayor Lawrence Springborg to officially open the [...]
Health Services
REGIONAL communities across New South Wales are set to benefit from new Key Health Worker Accommodation which hopes to attract more paramedics to the bush. The $200million program supports more than 20 projects across rural, regional and remote NSW. Funding will secure approximately 120 dwellings across regional NSW, which includes the building of new accommodation, [...]
Youth Crime
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan last week in parliament implored Premier Chris Minns to change the laws pertaining to youth crime in New South Wales. Under common law in New South Wales, a 13-year-old can commit numerous break-and-enter offences, be charged by the police, only to have the charges dismissed under doli incapax. “When [...]
Regional Crime
A man has died and a second man is under police guard in Tamworth Base Hospital following a stand-off with police in Tamworth overnight. 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 [...]
