The Coonamble Times
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Image: NSW Government. Environmental groups have welcomed the Minns Government over its key decision to regulate floodplain harvesting. Floodplain harvesting is using levee banks to divert water from the floodplain …
PHOTO: The opening of the pool has been five months in the making. IMAGE: Walgett Swimming Club Over five months after the decision to have it decommissioned, the Walgett Memorial …
PHOTO: Fun Day organisers, Michael Ross (Baradine LALC) and Lauren Harris (Baradine Preschool) Hours of wet and wild water play kept children cool at a family fun day held in …
PHOTO: Fire fighting efforts continued over the Christmas period. (RFS NSW) Firefighting crews in the Pilliga are taking control of the moderate conditions to undertake backburning in an effort to …
Communities and councils have been rallying to make their homes safer, after consistent crime levels have driven them to breaking point. Numbers from a recent police operation reveal that the …
PHOTO: Outback Arts Gallery recently hosted an artist’s talk with Melissa Kelly to speak about her latest exhibition, ‘Queen of all the Wild Things’ To celebrate the release of her …
PHOTO: The Coonamble Literacy for Life team for 2024: Emily Albert, Lateisha Stevens , Gail Turnbull, Debbie Welsh, Sonja Sands. In a push to make the program “their own” the …
A huge cut of agricultural land could be re-zoned for residential use in what could dramatically change the landscape of parts of the Walgett shire and open it up for more housing. …
PHOTO: Steven Colwell auctions a hand-drawn portrait of Willy Redington with help from spotter Stewart Woodham and Santa’s elf. PHOTO: Kimberley French The power of community spirit was on full …