THE first two months of 2017 have been extremely busy for Barwon Local Area Command however the recent activities of local Police are starting to reflect a downturn in crime. In recent weeks police have attended: Break-ins and stealings in Jacaranda Drive, Cummins Avenue, Anne Street, Jones...
THE first grain train from Moree’s new intermodal terminal, located at Broadbent Grain, left the station on Friday, farewelled by Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall and Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Roads, Maritime and Transport Kevin Anderson. Carrying 2,200 tonnes of locally grown grain from Broadbent...
MEMBER for the Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall today welcomed the opening of Moree’s 56 megawatt solar farm – Australia’s biggest single axis tracking solar array and the second-largest nationally. The 1.5km-square facility will keep the lights on in 24,000 homes, helping to diversify the state’s energy mix...
IT measures four metres in length and is one-and-a-half metres high, and is a masterpiece that has been a work-in-progress for 18 long months. Sunday Afternoon along the Mehi is the collaborative work of nine artists who freely gave their incredible talent and valuable time to...
LOCAL health services and regional tourism are likely to suffer if a plan by Transport for NSW to deregulate the Sydney to Moree flight service comes to fruition. That is the opinion of Tourism Moree CEO Tammy Elbourne and Pius X Aboriginal Corporation chairperson Cathy Duncan,...
PAST players, coaches, organisers and social members of the former Post Office Hotel Hockey Club will get together this weekend to relive an era when sport dominated the Moree landscape. The local hockey competition in Moree during the 1980s had a huge following, with teams competing...
THE black-soil plains will be well-represented in races worth hundreds of thousands of dollars this weekend, with boom filly Invincible Gem – part-owned by Pallamallawa farmer Phillip “Roughie” Tonkin – leading the charge in the $1 million Randwick Guineas (1600m) at headquarters on Saturday. And just a...
AIRCRAFT type, Sydney Airport slots, Moree Plains’ agricultural significance in the overall scheme of things and connectivity with other flights – these are just some of the factors Moree residents need to be concerned about says a group of locals fighting a proposed deregulation of...
MOREE Plains Shire Council has supported the Bush Bursary-CWA Scholarship Scheme with $857 through Council’s public donations financial assistance program to help the NSW Rural Doctors’ Network provide a medical student with a two-week placement in Moree. Joshua Richards, 26, came to Moree after completing his...
NORTHERN Tablelands MP Adam Marshall says he’s confident a permanent resolution to the ownership future of the historic Moree Lands office building is closer to being finalised. Mr Marshall said the Frome Street building has been saved from being sold off by government and he’s confident...