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...
Updated 6pm Wednesday, October 19 FROM a bull in a Chinese shop to a cantankerous koala bear ambling down the middle of Balo Street late at night – it’s all in a day’s work for Moree Plains Shire Council ranger Jock Jones. Jock has seen it all...
MOREE Arts Council Thespians, the local theatre group that brought The Red Barn to life earlier this year to sell-out shows, is back bigger than ever and ready to tread the boards once again. And the group is calling on aspiring actors to audition for its...
NSW Police are calling on members of the community to report rural crime as Rural Crime Investigators step up to support farmers across NSW. Western Region Commander and NSW Police Corporate Sponsor for Rural Crime, Assistant Commissioner Geoff McKechnie, was joined by Deputy Premier and Minister...
THE Moree Relay for Life committee was this financial quarter one of five local community groups to be awarded financial assistance by Moree Plains Shire Council. The committee, which held the local biannual Relay for Life fundraiser at the weekend at Moree Showground, was rewarded for...
Disaster assistance is available for people, businesses and local councils affected by recent storms and floods in parts of Orana, Central West NSW and South-East NSW. Following the September floods, disaster recovery assistance is available for the local government areas of Bathurst, Bland, Blayney, Bogan, Cabonne,...