Crash closes Mitchell Highway near Queensland border
PHOTO: A B-double crash has closed the Mitchell Highway near Barringun The Mitchell Highway has been closed following a heaving vehicle accident near the Queensland border in the early hours …
New detections, new warnings about MV Encephalitis
PHOTO: Sentinel chickens in the Macquarie Marshes are the ‘canary in the coalmine’ for mosquito-borne viruses. In 1917 George V was King, someone threw an egg at Prime Minister Billy Hughes, …
NSW Blues coaches visit Walgett for Hogs tour
PHOTO: NSW Blues coach Brad Fittler and NSW Sky Blues coach Kylie Hilder with Walgett PCYC students on Tuesday 7 February. PHOTO: NSWRL OVER 100 young football fanatics gathered at …
New report: Living longer against the odds
Image: RFDS. Rural and remote Australians are more likely to die at a younger age than people living elsewhere in the nation according to a new Royal Flying Doctors Service (RFDS) …
Tradie suicide at an all-time high
PHOTO: Brendon White, Condobolin, models his ‘This is a Conversation Starter’ shirt for tradies, truckies, rural workers and blue collar blokes. PHOTO SUPPLIED There’s a shout for ‘Tools down’ as …
Coonamble Children’s Services
• PHOTO: The Coonamble Children’s Services kids had a blast playing with the police officers last week. Emergency Services visit againWe have extended our emergency service visit by having play …
Outwitting the nits
• PHOTO: Pharmacist Carlo Strydom has some nit-beating advice. AT this time of the year, parents of school-age children are settling into the new school year – and all the …
Scorching Touch Footy
• PHOTO: Hannah O’Neil looks for an opening in the defence line. Touch Footy returned on Monday 6 February with a not-so-friendly 36-degree afternoon to welcome everyone back. The first …
Learning to swim more important than ever
• PHOTO: Katrina Shelton guiding the children on how to enter the water safely. By MARNIE RYAN BY 31 January 2023, there have already been 52 drowning deaths this summer …