The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Regional Sport
FOLLOWING the success of recent workshops in the central west of New South Wales, an interactive child safety workshop will be held in Tamworth next week to help local sporting organisations keep children safe from harm and abuse in sport. The NSW Office of Sport has partnered with the Office of the Children’s Guardian to [...]
Annual General Meeting
MOREE Race Club is seeking new committee members, and with the club’s biggest meeting of the year only a couple of months away, the call-out is on for more hands on deck. The club hosts an eight-race TAB meeting on Friday, November 1 to herald the start of Melbourne Cup week, with the all-important annual [...]
The Cup
MANY years ago, before Vintage Crop changed everything in 1993, a popular system often found the winner of the race that stops a nation. But Dermott Weld’s Irish raider, and subsequent overseas invaders, changed everything. Within a matter of about three minutes and 23 seconds, the race that stops a nation became the race that [...]
Art Exhibition
GALLERY owner Gig Moses is overjoyed to bring award-winning artist Katie Wyatt back to Moree for the official launch of her solo exhibition, Botanical Horizons, at The Moree Gallery on Thursday, November 14. “Following a series of successful exhibitions during the past 10 years, I’m thrilled to welcome Katie back to The Moree Gallery,” Gig [...]
Animal Welfare
THE Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals NSW (RSPCA) and the Animal Welfare League NSW (AWL), will receive $12.5 million towards enforcement and compliance activities that provide protection for cats, dogs, livestock and other animals. The RSPCA NSW will receive $11.3 million, and the AWL NSW will receive $1.17 million. The funding [...]
Law and Order
A teenage boy is due to appear in a children’s court today charged after a family was allegedly threatened and their SUV stolen at Moree at the weekend. Officers attached to New England Police District have been told a 33-year-old woman asleep in a motel on Warialda Street with her two young children, when four [...]
Regional News
THE draft Namoi and Peel Unregulated Rivers water sharing plan is now on public display, and the NSW Government is inviting the community to have its say. The plan sets out clear rules for fair and sustainable water sharing among water users and the environment across the region for the next decade. That includes setting [...]
Parkes Electorate
The Australian Government Disaster Recovery Allowance (DRA) is now available to support people whose income has been affected by the severe weather and ongoing power interruptions in the Broken Hill and Central Darling Local Government Areas, as well as the Unincorporated Far West. The DRA is a short-term income support payment, payable up to the [...]
Moree Gallops
Dubbo jockey and Moree old-boy Clayton Gallager landed a winning double at Moree on Friday when guiding Wandering Jack and Da Noive to popular wins. Kieren Hazleton’s Da Noive ($4.20fav) stuck to the fence, just off the speed before racing clear to win the 1400m Heffernan Electrical BM-58 Handicap by three-parts of a length from [...]
Fatalities
TWO people have died in a truck crash north of Moree. At about 3.30am Sunday, November 3, emergency services were called to the Newell Highway, about 75km north of Moree, near Buckie Road, following reports of a crash. Officers attached to New England Police District attended and found a B-double truck had rolled over and [...]
