Police from Barwon Local Area Command (LAC) will this week host information sessions to discuss ways police and Aboriginal people can work together to create stronger, safer communities. The information sessions will take place within Barwon LAC, in the state’s north-west, between Tuesday (16 August 2016),...
MOREE trainer Peter Sinclair had four runners at three tracks on Saturday but it was left to his trainer son Nathan to put food on the family table over the weekend when Gilded Spirit won the 1200m Stewart's Grain Trading BM-45 Handicap at Inverell. Ironically, Sinclair...
Rail infrastructure in regional NSW has received a major boost with $15 million to fund 10 pilot projects to kick start improvements to the state’s rail freight network on top of the $400 million Fixing Country Rail program. Minister for Freight Duncan Gay joined Parliamentary Secretary...
A SCHEME allowing trucking operators to make use of an overloading tolerance of up to five percent per load on regional and local roads within Moree Plains Shire has been debated among councillors at the Moree Plains Shire Council meeting last week. NSW Government invited Moree...
Police are appealing for the public to not approach three men who escaped from a correctional centre in the state’s west overnight. Andrew Fernando, 22; Greg Walford, 20; and Dean Boney, 20, were last seen about 2.40am today (Saturday 13 August 2016) at the minimum-security correctional...
Police are appealing for information following an armed robbery at a service station in Tamworth last night. About 10.20pm (Friday 12 August 2016), three males entered a service station on Goonoo Goonoo Road, Tamworth. Two of the men were armed with weapons. One of the armed men threatened...
A woman has been charged following a police pursuit in Moree yesterday. About 3pm (Friday 12 August 2016), police from Moree Target Action Group were patrolling Edward Street, Moree when they observed a maroon Holden Statesman and tried to stop the vehicle for a random breath...
IT has often been said that from little things, big things grow – and it’s an apt description of Magic on the Mehi, a brand-new poetry and music festival planned for Moree next month. Magic on the Mehi is bush poet Murray ‘Muz’ Hartin’s ‘baby’, and...
BARWON LAC Police have recently taken a report from a local business after they became the target of a ransomware scam. Ransomware is a type of malware that blocks or limits access to your computer or files, and demands a ransom be paid to the scammer for...
MOREE-owned-and-trained galloper Free Billy – the gelding that has quickly gained cult status across the north and north-west as he angles towards a hometown cup win next month – needs to overcome a wide gate and big weight to win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Free...