The Sapphire City Motor Sports Club will be holding a Charity Poker Run later this month to raise funds for local cancer charity ‘Helping Out a Mate’. The Poker Run will consist of around 115km of total travel with 5 stops to collect cards making a poker hand, with...
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NDIS Providers Put on Notice About Consequences of Misleading Advertising
The ACCC is putting businesses on notice that it is focusing in on problematic advertising practices which target participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). The ACCC has been working with the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) and NDIS...
RFS Crews Extinguish Grass Fire
NSW Rural Fire Service brigades from Inverell, Gum Flat and Gilgai were called in to assist property owners in extinguishing a fire on the Copeton Dam Rd yesterday afternoon. Crews responded to the fire just before 5pm which is believed to have started by a lightning...
Kookabookra Fire Under Control
New England Zone Rural Fire Service have confirmed the fire burning near Guyra, is now under control and officially on patrol status. The fire, at Kookabookra, 42km northeast of Guyra, grew to just over 300 hectares and was brought under control by local landholders,...
National Survivors’ Day – A Day to Stand in Solidarity with Survivors
Today, is National Survivor’s Day, it commemorates the resilience of survivors of sexual assault, institutional and systemic abuse. An important initiative from In Good Faith Foundation (IGFF) who supports survivors of sexual assault and institutional abuse through...
Local SES Teams Assist Couple
Inverell SES unit were called into action on Sunday evening to locate a couple who had engine trouble on Pindari Dam. The Unit responded, along with the assistance of the Ashford SES, and found the vessel in a cove at the eastern end of the dam at about 2am yesterday...
Police Appeal Assistance to Locate Armidale Teen
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from Armidale. Chelsey Poulton, aged 15, was last seen on the corner of Beardy and Dangar Street, Armidale, about 9am Friday 1 November 2024. When she could not be located or contacted,...
Remembrance Day 2024
Australians are being urged to observe a minute’s silence at 11am today to pay their respects to current and former service men and women on this Remembrance Day. Federal Shadow Veterans Minister and New England MP Barnaby Joyce says in the First World War, 460,000...
Funding for Guyra Scout Hall
Northern Tablelands MP Brendan Moylan has announced that Guyra’s old Scout Hall will sport a fresh new look thanks to a state government grant of over $145,000. Mr Moylan visited the hall along with members of the Rotary Club of Guyra, who have taken over the...








