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Local News

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Mayoral Minute on Cost Shifting

Inverell Shire Mayor Kate Dight will highlight cost shifting onto local government in a Mayoral Minute at today’s Council meeting. Mayor Dight says the unrelenting growth of cost shifting to councils, coupled with rate pegging and insufficient state and federal...

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Landholders Invited to Breakfast at Warialda

Local land Services are inviting landholders to a free Breakfast Q & A at the Warialda Showground next month. Landholders will be encouraged to meet their Local Land Services board members or come and ask Local Land Services staff a question. Questions could be...

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Good Noms for Winter Racing at Inverell

The nominations have dropped for Saturday’s Inverell Jockey Club’s Winter race day. With 110 horses entered for the six-race meeting, the fields promise to be very competitive. Jockey Club officials will be looking towards the skies this week with rain forecast...

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Animal Activism and AI Up for Debate

Animal activists, artificial intelligence and the next generation of agriculture were just some of the hot topics up for debate at the NSW Farmers’ Annual Conference today. With delegates supporting a motion to introduce a first farm buyer’s scheme – similar to the...

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News in Brief

The Westpac Rescue helicopter was tasked to a motorbike accident on Thursday, near Warialda. A man in his 90s was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics and the helicopter's critical care medical team for a suspected fractured ankle before being transported to Tamworth...

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Search to Find Missing 16-Year-Old

Police are appealing for assistance to locate a teenage girl last seen in the Lismore area. Jalarna Buchanan, aged 16, was last seen at a shopping centre on Diadem Street, Lismore, about 11am last Wednesday (16 July 2025). When she could not be located or contacted,...

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