MEMBER for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has welcomed the State Government’s regulatory changes which will now allow doctors in NSW to be able to apply to prescribe a broader range of cannabis-based medicines. Mr Marshall said the move meant that cannabis-based medicines previously only able to...
IT was a defining moment for Moree AFL outfit the Suns on Saturday when the fledgling club outstripped Narrabri Eagles by a widening 95 points. The Suns ran out winners 19.23-137 to 6.6-42 with Moree's Luke O'Neill (five goals), Wyatt Roberts, Ashley Jones, Joshua Walker, Daniel West and Zach Collier playing blinders. Club president...
NSW Police Force has launched the 2016 Missing Persons Week campaign to raise awareness of the issues and impacts surrounding missing persons. The theme of this year’s campaign is urging people to ‘Stay Connected’ and to remember that ‘Missing Persons Leave Frayed Edges.’ The campaign aims to...
MOREE Cup-bound gelding Free Billy lost no admirers yesterday after finishing strongly to grab fourth in the 1350m Moet and Chandon Chairman’s Club Handicap at Doomben. Free Billy, trained at Moree by Peter Sinclair and owned locally by the well-known Bryans family, had just five horses...
FOLLOWING weeks of tough training, 24 recruit firefighters officially joined Fire & Rescue NSW (FRNSW) during a ceremony at the State Training College at Alexandria. They are trained in the latest firefighting technology, road crash and high-angle rescue, risk management and handling hazardous materials. NSW Minister for Emergency...
FLY Corporate will launch a regular passenger service between Moree and Brisbane after being granted approval by Moree Plains Shire Council at its Council meeting today. Fly Corporate CEO Andrew Major said the increase in the Fly Corporate network was an "extremely exciting development which forms part...
IN an Australian first, NSW is researching medicinal cannabis cultivation. The Federal Government has given the NSW Department of Primary Industries the go-ahead for the pilot cannabis cultivation program. NSW Minister Primary Industries Niall Blair said the program paves the way for non-government cultivation in the future. “This is an...
PETER Sinclair’s charge towards the all-important Moree Cup meeting in early September continues unabated on Saturday, with the local trainer saddling up three runners at two meetings – both of them in Queensland. Free Billy, Sinclair’s big Moree Cup hope, heads to Doomben on Saturday and...
THE imminent shift to a new system that will allow people with a disability to ‘comparison shop’ among service providers is being supported in Moree with almost $67,000 in transition funding from the State Government announced for two local service providers. [caption id="attachment_5533" align="alignleft" width="610"] Moree...
MEMBERS of the public interested in standing as a councillor at the forthcoming local government elections are invited to an informal information evening at 5.30pm next Monday, August 1 at Moree Plains Shire Council Chambers in the Max Centre on Balo Street. General manager Lester Rodgers and deputy mayor Sue...