The Coonamble Times
Your Local Newspaper Serving Coonamble & district since 1885
This National Farm Safety Week, Farmsafe Australia has launched the 2026 Safer Farms Report, alongside a national campaign encouraging every person in agriculture to recognise the influence they have on …
Four projects across Gilgandra and Lightning Ridge will share $792,110 in Crown Land grants through the NSW Government annual Crown Reserves Improvement Fund. The largest grant, for $493,350, will fund …
Gilgandra parents are still reeling from the arrest of local school admin officer earlier this week. Lucy Ray McKenzie, a 35-year-old Gilgandra woman, was arrested on Tuesday morning 14 July …
Coonamble trainer and president of its race club – which no longer holds races – has lambasted Greyhound Racing officials who remain silent over the dropping of his track while spending …
Aboriginal Land Councils across north-west New South Wales have been given more time to scrutinise controversial changes to Crown Lands legislation with the NSW Government agreeing to extend consultation on …
A group of Indigenous youth from Brewarrina and Taree spent NAIDOC Week in Sydney as part of the Winmarra Foundation’s Emerging Leaders Program. A highlight of the week of cultural, …
Just when you thought the local stretch of the Inland Rail project was dead and buried, the ‘founder and father’ of the concept steps back in to fight for what …
Entries are now open for the Outback Arts' Next Gen Creative art competition for career-driven artistic First Nations youths, and organiser Mim McKeown is keen to see the exciting creations. …
A Federal proposal to massively increase the trigger for the declaration of a natural disaster that unlocks federal and state funding would be a financial disaster for local councils, according …