AUSTRALIA’S largest Aboriginal recruitment and group training agency, the Aboriginal Employment Strategy, has celebrated the achievements of its latest group of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trainees at the 2017 AES Graduation Ceremony. The annual ceremony also doubled as a celebration of the AES’s 20th...
Moree lads prepare to launch for madcap boat race in South Australia TAKE one 10-foot tinnie with plenty of grunt thanks to a 30-horsepower outboard motor replacing the normal 10hp job, 100 kilometres of one of Australia’s most famous waterways and a couple of thrill-seeking lads...
A HUGE $4.6 million project to secure the water supply of Boggabilla and Toomelah is almost complete, with construction crews now building large pier and water intake infrastructure at either end of the 15 kilometre bi-directional pipeline. Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall recently inspected the...
MOREE will be a lynchpin in the NSW Government’s mission to stop rural crime, with Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall on Wednesday announcing new senior police presence to boost the local response. Mr Marshall said an additional Detective Sergeant and two Constables would be soon based...
AN 11-year-old boy charged with arson is one of at least eight people arrested during the past week as Strike Force Claymore 2 enters its fourth week of operation in Moree. Police patrolling Moree at the weekend conducted 64 street checks, 193 roadside breath tests, searched...
A JUVENILE not yet in his teens may be questioned about a suspected arson attack in Moree on Sunday afternoon. The vacant dwelling, on the corner of Wattle Crescent and Boronia Avenue, was allegedly set on fire at about 4pm. A young boy, believed to be no...
FROM dancing with the stars to driving in the car – Gwydir Industries Moree has put the pedal to the metal and bumped the gear-shift into overdrive in the lead-up to Dancing with the Stars, the Moree service provider’s biggest fundraiser of the year. And the...
A TERRIFIED Moree resident was held with scissors to his throat during a home invasion in Anne Street during the early hours of Friday morning. And about two-and-a-half hours later the same offenders allegedly attempted to steal a motor vehicle from a Barwon Avenue address. Offenders fled...
MOREE fire-fighters, police and paramedics battled Alice Street bumper-to-bumper traffic at the Moree bypass set of traffic lights – long-regarded by locals as a motoring nightmare – to quickly respond to a residential fire on Morton Street on Thursday afternoon. A back-up unit from Moree Rural...
AUSTRALIAN jobs are being secured with the Coalition Government signing a contract with Liberty OneSteel Whyalla Steelworks to supply steel rail to the iconic Inland Rail project, the Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said. Mr Coulton said the Parkes to Narromine section of the Inland Rail will...