The newest stories across general, sport, community, and business coverage.
Regional Sport
FIFTEEN-year-old Olivia Earl has been named Sports Star of the Year at the 2025 Tamworth Regional Sports Awards, held last night at West Tamworth League Club. She was also named Junior Sports Star of the Year for her incredible list of feats on the athletics field over the past year, which includes a string of [...]
Youth Crime Crisis
A teenager has been charged following an alleged aggravated break-and-enter and wounding incident in Tamworth in late August. At around 3am on August 30, emergency services were called to a home on Gabriella Way, Hillvue, following reports of an alleged break-and-enter. On arrival, officers attached to Oxley Police District located a 42-year-old man with injuries [...]
Kyla-Belle
IT’S showtime for thousands of public school students from across New South Wales today, including Moree Secondary College’s Kyla-Belle Roberts. Students will sing, dance, sing, play, flip and hang from the ceiling at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena for the 2025 Schools Spectacular today and tomorrow. Known as the world’s largest amateur variety show, Schools Spectacular [...]
LifeHouse Church
THE financial pressures of Christmas will be a little easier for 20 families struggling to buy presents this year, with Moree Services Club donating $5000 to the LifeHouse Church Under the Tree initiative. Under the Tree – being held in Moree for the second year – is supported by local communities, business houses and organisations, [...]
Local Government
NEWLY-elected Local Government NSW president Darcy Byrne has wasted no time in advocating for councils across New South Wales, this week heading to Canberra to meet with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Fresh from his election to the role on Monday, Cr Byrne travelled to the nation’s capital, inviting outgoing president Phyllis Miller and chair of [...]
National Weather
THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued its long-range forecast for the 2025 summer season and it shows summer days and nights are likely to be warmer than average across most of Australia. Nationally, summer rainfall is likely to be below average for parts of the west and inland parts of the east. However, for much [...]
Opal Mining
THE Lightning Ridge Miners’ Association has acknowledged the NSW Government’s regulatory environment ‘refresh’ for small scale opal mining titles in New South Wales. The LRMA said the way in which the government has engaged with key stakeholders during the process has been positive, despite some challenges ahead. In a statement earlier this week, LRMA said [...]
Politics
MEMBER for New England Barnaby Joyce today announced to the house of representatives his resignation from the Australian National Party. The former deputy prime minister said in a one-minute address he announced his intention to quit the party about five weeks ago. “Apart from a 90-second phone conversation with the leader (of the National Party), [...]
Christmas Cheer
WHEN 20 or 30 schoolkids perform in front of 120 seniors, magic happens – Christmas magic. Students of Moree Public School Choir, from Year 1 through to Year 6, closed the 2025 Seniors Christmas lunch at Moree Services Club on Wednesday to rousing applause from more than 120 guests who sang along to a repertoire [...]
DV Awareness
SUPPORT organisations from across Moree came together on Wednesday to host the domestic violence awareness initiative, the Clothesline Project, in the gardens of Bank Art Museum Moree. The awareness event was the local launch of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, a global campaign which began on Tuesday – International Day for the Elimination of [...]
