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Rural Crime
A fifth man has been charged over the alleged theft of firearms and vehicles in Coonamble between August and September this year. In September 2025, officers attached to the Rural Crime Prevention Team in the Orana Mid-Western Police District in Mudgee commenced an investigation following reports of motor vehicles and firearms being stolen from multiple [...]
Wild Weather
WILD weather wreaked havoc yesterday as gale-force winds and hail struck communities across north-western New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland. Hailstorms were short and sharp, some hit and miss, but all were frightening with wind gusts up to 110kph recorded in some areas as supercell clusters crawled across both states. Hailstones measuring up to 10cm [...]
Demo Derby Crash
AN investigation is underway after nine people were injured – one critically – when a demo-derby car crashed at Walcha last night. Emergency services were called to Walcha showground on Derby Street at about 6.15pm last night after a vehicle competing in a race crashed through a fence and hit a mobile grandstand. Bystanders rendered [...]
On Your Bikes
ROUND four of the Moree Riders’ Club’s 12-week season hit the berms and box-jumps for a few bar-spins and bunny-hops on Thursday, but mostly it was all about having fun and bringing the community together. The 2025-2026 season sprang from the starting gates in October and will run for 12 weeks across two sessions, with [...]
Pipes Are Calling
ASPIRING Moree musicians who have never played bagpipes, snare drums or tenor drums but are curious about learning need look no further. Members of Moree Caledonian Pipes and Drums are now conducting lessons – free of charge – as they build up band number heading into 2026. Pipe major Tim Tesoriero said the only cost [...]
Regional Sport
HE started the season as an underdog after returning from 13 years of self-imposed dirt track exile. But this weekend in Gunnedah, 36-year-old Tom Armstrong is on target to win the premier Pro 450 class in the 2025 Yamaha BLU CRU Aussie Flat Track Nationals. Armstrong, with team Honda, sits 110pts clear of defending champion [...]
Tennis Anyone
WARIALDA Tennis Club’s tired and worn courts will soon be transformed, thanks to a grant secured through the Clubgrants Category 3 Fund. The club netted $100,534 to revamp the synthetic courts which have sat dormant for several years. Member for Northern Tablelands Brendan Moylan met with Warialda Tennis Club’s Paul Durkin to announce the successful [...]
Northern Tablelands
Parliament was back this week for the first week of the November sittings. I gave a Notice of Motion calling on the Minns Labor Government to get on with the job in building the Glen Innes Hospital. Since the project was announced in 2021, the delays have been going on long enough. The debate on [...]
Agriculture
FARMERS and businesses are invited to register their interest in purchasing unassigned groundwater which is being made available by the NSW Government. This is being done through a controlled allocation order which sets out a fair and transparent process for buying water shares available in 37 water sources in New South Wales that are not [...]
Rural Crime
COONAMBLE, Brewarrina, Bourke and Walgett mayors are returning home with state funding for a new strategy to address youth crime, following a meeting with NSW Premier Chris Minns that was arranged by the Member for Barwon, Roy Butler. The Premier has agreed to establish a trial site across the four Local Government Areas. There will [...]
