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Northern Tablelands
A total of $1.38 million in funding from the NSW Government was secured for the Australian Natural Therapeutics Group’s facility in Armidale which will create 20 new jobs. The $1.38m is part of as larger $6.93m injection to create jobs in cultivation, manufacturing, and quality and logistics as well as infrastructure upgrades to improve and [...]
Regional News
NARRABRI Shire Council has welcomed $157,151 funding from the Australian Government to deliver new rooftop solar systems at Narrabri Aquatic Centre and The Crossing Theatre. Narrabri Shire is one of 66 councils nationally, and 23 in New South Wales, to receive funding under Round Two of the Community Energy Upgrades Fund. Regionally, Gunnedah Shire Council [...]
Youth Crime
A teenager will face court following an alleged car theft and pursuit at Inverell early today. At about 4.15am today, officers attached to New England Police District were called to a home on Frome Street, Inverell, following reports a white Toyota Landcruiser had been stolen. Police arrived and were told the vehicle – with its [...]
Christmas Grants
MOREE and District Historical Society and Country Universities Centre North West have been named among 10 grant recipients of the Port of Newcastle’s 2025 Your Port, Our Community grants program. The program, with $100,000 distributed, covers Port of Newcastle’s catchment, spanning from Newcastle across most of far-west, central, and north-western New South Wales, with Christmas [...]
Christmas Magic
MOREE Rural Fire Service has again signed up Santa Claus to take time out from his hectic yuletide schedule and lead the Moree Santa Run this Saturday, December 13. The Santa Run, with the man in red leading RFS members and volunteers, will commence at 4pm near Stanley Village, before slowly moving across Moree. Santa [...]
Tight Lines
AS pallbearers solemnly carried the coffin of Gregory John Brown past mourners, Rob Beatty leaned forward from the end of his pew and tenderly reeled in an imaginary fishing line as his good mate left All Saints Anglican Church in Moree. It was a poignant moment from one close friend to another – almost surreal [...]
Garage Barbershop
THE kid can cut hair – and he’ll be on the clippers and combs free-of-charge for the next couple of Saturday mornings at Bank Art Museum Moree as part of the Garage Barbershop program. Jake Frey didn’t expect much when he first walked into Garage Barbershop. He was quiet and unsure of what the program [...]
Social Media
GOVERNMENT eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant is calling on parents, carers and young people in regional and rural communities to visit eSafety and access resources designed to help them handle social media age restrictions, which are now in effect. Developed collaboratively with Australia’s leading mental health and support organisations, the resources explain what is changing, [...]
Agriculture
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan has welcomed news that virtual fencing was legalised in New South Wales on Thursday. Virtual fencing systems allow farmers to confine and move animals without physical fences using GPS, wireless and sensor technology. A parliamentary inquiry in October 2024 into the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Amendment (Virtual Stock [...]
Christmas Races
AWARD-winning Australian country music star Max Jackson headlines the December 20 Moree Ag Supplies and Steel Twilight Christmas races after-party, just weeks ahead of her ground-breaking third appearance as official ambassador of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Jackson, a proud bushie, Coonamble born and raised, is a three-times Golden Guitar winner and was crowned Golden [...]
