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Regional News
GWYDIR Shire Council has received the formal resignation of Cr Marilyn Dixon OAM, effective Tuesday, February 3, 2026. Cr Dixon, known affectionately as “Mash”, has resigned due to medical reasons, and the resignation has been formally notified to the NSW Electoral Commission. The vacancy will be filled by a countback election from the 2024 ordinary [...]
The ‘55 Flood
JOHN and Geoff Matthews figured they could get across. The brothers, who lived on Dover Street in East Moree, cautiously eyed the swollen Mehi River as floodwaters rushed past. The river was rising rapidly. Moree’s main bridge, about 50 yards upstream from the current Dr Geoffrey Hunter Bridge, shuddered and swayed. It was late evening [...]
Agriculture
NSW Farmers’ has presented the state government with a range of improvements the organisation says need to be made to firearms regulations. NSW Farmers President Xavier Martin said the sudden, sweeping changes to firearms laws made without consultation created adverse and unintended consequences, while ongoing uncertainty caused big problems for food and fibre producers. But [...]
Regional News
THE NSW Shadow Minister for Water, Steph Cooke, said this week the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water rejected an urgent request for bottled drinking water from Coonamble, more than a week after the town was placed on a boil water notice. Coonamble is one of a growing number of rural [...]
Regional News
GLEN Innes Severn Council is celebrating a significant boost to community wellbeing, with two major funding commitments from the NSW Government set to strengthen early intervention, cultural safety, and long-term support for local families. Council has secured $387,359 in renewed funding for The Youth Booth, guaranteeing the continuation and expansion of vital community strengthening services [...]
It’s Showtime!
NOMINATIONS are now open for the 2026 Moree Show Society Young Woman competition, with 2025 winner Laura Penfold encouraging young women from across the Moree Plains to enter the celebrated event. Ms Penfold is no stranger to Moree Show Young Woman sashes. She also won the title in 2021 after twice being crowned Junior Showgirl [...]
Weather
THERE are multiple weather apps and long-range forecasting channels across the internet and social media, and they’re all saying pretty much the same thing at the moment – rain, and plenty of it, will fall across south-eastern Queensland and much of northern New South Wales over the next four days. Predictions for the Moree district [...]
Our Community
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan encourages friends, family and coworkers to put a remarkable volunteer’s name forward by nominating them for the 2026 NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards. Launched in 2007 by the Centre for Volunteering, the awards celebrate the six million people who volunteer for organisations across Australia. Mr Moylan said the [...]
Our Community
IN a milestone year for two local scholarships dedicated to strengthening the rural health workforce, Moree psychology student Georgia Clissold and Warialda Rail nursing student Jessica-Lea McDougall and have each received a $10,000 boost to support their studies. Marking 20 years of the Dr William Hunter scholarship and a decade of the Healthy Communities scholarship, [...]
Strike Force Koolyn
IN a first for New South Wales, Sex Crimes Squad detectives have successfully used Forensic Investigative Genetic Genealogy to arrest a man in connection with multiple alleged historic sexual assaults. Strike force detectives on Wednesday executing a search warrant in South Kempsey, where they arrested a 77-year-old man and charged him with offences dating back [...]
