CHIC Hartin remembers with absolute clarity the day she drove her 16-year-old son Blake Spriggs to Muswellbrook for his first ride under race-day conditions. It was mid-March, 2008, and just another day at the office for most senior jockeys. But for Spriggs it was a red-letter day...
MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall today welcomed a $46 million NSW Government program to boost student learning through better technology in rural and remote public schools. Mr Marshall on Tuesday hosted Education Minister Adrian Piccoli and NSW Department of Education Secretary Mark Scott AO in Moree and...
STOCK theft, bio-security and illegal hunting are among the issues up for discussion at the annual Rural Crime Investigators Conference that kicked off in Port Macquarie today. The two-day conference that began this morning (Tuesday, October 25) provides a rare opportunity for NSW Police’s 34 specially-trained...
THREE males - two adults and one teenager - have been charged after allegedly detaining another man and threatening him with a firearm in Moree. About 8am on Saturday, October 22, a 25-year-old man attended a home in Brand Street to meet with a 30-year-old man who is...
Two people tragically killed in a head-on collision about 15 kilometres north of Moree on Friday afternoon – one of them a businesswoman from Goondiwindi – were among eight people killed on NSW roads within a 48-hour timeframe. The 48-year-old woman was returning home to Goondiwindi...
UPDATED 2pm, Sunday October 25 Two people are dead following a head-on collision involving a semi-trailer and pantech-style van north of Moree on the Newell Highway. Around 4.15pm on Friday, October 21, emergency services, including police, paramedics and fire and rescue personel, were called to the accident scene...
WITH feral pigs continuing to wreak havoc on the region’s landscape, a new local research project aims to better identify and develop more targeted control options for landholders. The project will see satellite collars fastened on 10 feral pigs in the Berrigal Creek area east of...
DETECTIVES attached to Barwon Local Area Command investigating a bag snatch in Gosport Street Moree are keen to speak to a number of witnesses. While a 22-year-old male remains in custody, detectives wish to speak to a number of witnesses who assisted the victim on Wednesday, October...
A BREEDING ground for creativity, the Moree region will welcome three nationally acclaimed artisans for The Moree Gallery Christmas Exhibition, two of whom hail from the district. In a stellar line-up of talent, the Gallery’s final exhibition for the year, opening November 4, will include jewellery...
LOCAL schools at Garah, Moree, Boggabilla, Boomi, Gravesend, North Star, Pallamallawa, Toomelah, Mallawa, Bullarah and Mungindi have in the past three years received funding through the Gonski reforms for over the last three years and yesterday parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW Adam Marshall announced a 23 per cent...