A 13-year-old girl was positively identified as throwing rocks at vehicles on Gosport Street on Tuesday afternoon and will face charges. The teenager was identified and located a short distance away from the area of the alleged incident and taken to her home where she was...
MOREE Plains Shire Council and Moree Lions Club will showcase locals who have made a significant voluntary contribution to the Moree Plains community at the 2017 Australia Day awards. Moree Lions Club president Barrie Brooks hopes to receive a number of submissions for the awards now...
GOLD medal-winning Paralympian Prue Watt will be Moree’s ambassador at the Australia Day Awards ceremony in January. Lions Club spokesperson Barrie Brooks has been in close contact with the champion swimmer and snow skier and proudly announced her appointment at the weekend. “Prue is a wonderful young...
MOREE police continue to target rock-throwers – especially along the Newell Highway bypass – as well as traffic offenders and during the past three weeks have removed numerous motorbikes and quad-runners from local streets. Barwon Local Area Command acting superintendent Andrew Hurst said local police understood and...
NEARLY $100,000 in funding will be allocated to assist with a solution to put an end to the horrific spate of rock-throwing on the Newell Highway bypass in Moree. In recent months more than 45 incidents of trucks being pelted with rocks have occurred on the...
ROAD works on a stretch of one of the most notorious freight routes on the Carnarvon Highway just north of Moree is about to get underway, says Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall. Preparation works have begun for the $2.7 million upgrade of a six-kilometre stretch of...
NSW Farmers last week launched a Landholder Guide to Mining and CSG in NSW. The Guide is designed to provide up-to-date and comprehensive information on mining and coal seam gas activity and legislation in NSW. “With a complex set of regulations, farmers often don’t know where to...
Need to know what time Coles and Woolies are open over Christmas and New Year? Or what days Moree’s two medical centres will be operating during the festive season? Need a chemist shop in a hurry? The award-winning team at Tourism Moree has put together a must-have list...
A TEENAGE pedestrian has died after being struck by a vehicle in Narrabri Thursday night and two later a 43-year-old male was injured in a single-vehicle accident on Kaputar Road. At about 8.45pm emergency services were called to Doyle Street near the intersection of Nandewar Street,...
A PROJECT investing $2 million to reinstate a disused section of rail line at Moree, enabling hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain, cotton and pulses to be railed to Newcastle instead of being sent by truck to Queensland, is nearing completion. Northern Tablelands MP Adam...