The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Rapid Relief Team
A former Tamworth resident has described her “incredible” experience with the Rapid Relief Team In the United States, as a volunteer serving thousands of meals to firefighters working around the clock against the Los Angeles wildfires. Jessica Wyman, who moved to Ohio from Tamworth in 2011, was one of hundreds of RRT volunteers who travelled [...]
Police Operation
TWO people have been charged following a three-day police operation last week, with police saturating several areas, including Moree, Pallamallawa, Terry Hie Hie, Gravesend, Warialda, Delungra, Upper Horton, Bingara and Inverell. The high-visibility operation to proactively target crimes in rural and regional areas, was run between 6pm Monday January 13 and 4am Thursday January 16, [...]
Education and Training
TRADIES have replaced teachers and students across New South Wales to work on 1200 vital maintenance and upgrade projects across more than 800 public schools during the summer school holidays. The maintenance schedule is part of the NSW Government’s investment in minor works, and essential to ensuring schools are fit for purpose. This year, schools [...]
Australia Day
NEW citizens will be welcomed to Australia at citizenship ceremonies across the country on January 26 – an important part of Australian Day celebrations. Moree Plains Shire Council mayor, Susannah Pearse, conducts citizenship ceremonies regularly, but welcoming new citizens to Moree on Australia Day holds special significance. Australian citizenship symbolises unity as a nation and [...]
Pitch2Grow Moree
INNOVATIVE concept Pitch2Grow is calling for expressions of interest from people in the Moree, Narrabri and Inverell districts. The call-out is for entrepreneurs who have new business ideas, products or services, or a new enterprise they can promote in a pitch format. Pitch2Grow, a University of New England Smart Region Incubator project supported by the [...]
Local History
MOREE Plains Shire Council and Big Sky Libraries has published the first edition of Stories of Our Town, a Moree local studies journal. Stories of Our Town, a Moree Community Library publication edited by local studies and digitisation officer Adam Mitchell, is available in print or online in PDF format, and features snippets of history [...]
Regional News
FROM shearing sheep in the outback to judging the best lamingtons at country fairs, Brad Farmer has spent the last 13 years enjoying his role as an Australia Day Ambassador. Known as Australia’s beach ambassador, a conservationist, advocate and author, Mr Farmer has been appointed as Armidale’s Australia Day Ambassador for 2025. The best-selling author [...]
Moree Bowls
THERE will be $20,000 prize money offered when Moree Services Club hosts the 2025 NSW Aboriginal Bowls Tournament on Saturday-Sunday, January 25-26 – a relatively new concept focused on men’s health as well as generating interest in the sport among the youth of Moree. The men’s fours club tournament will bring bowlers from across New [...]
Agriculture
THE state’s peak agriculture body, NSW Farmers’ Association, has welcomed a new government initiative to address acute shortages of vets across rural New South Wales. Under the NSW Government’s Welcome Experience program, vets, vet nurses, vet technicians and their families are now eligible to receive assistance with sourcing housing, childcare and other services when moving [...]
MAAC Update
FOLLOWING the closure of the pools at the Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre (MAAC) on Tuesday 8 January 2025, Moree Plains Shire Council hopes to see the facility open to the public by next week. The gym and café remain open during the repair period. In a community update regarding replacement of failed equipment, council said [...]
