Broken Hill Times

Art for new mental health unit

THE new acute mental health inpatient unit currently under construction as part of the Far West Local Health District Hospital redevelopment will be decorated with paintings by local artists to bring colour and life to the facility. Creatives...

31 Mar 2025

Community

What’s on this weeknd?

FRIDAY Foundation Broken Hill Open DayBroken Earth Complex, 9am-2pm Visitors welcome to come up for lunch and enjoy Broken Hill’s best view. Fresh sandwiches, wraps and salad, along with famous Broken Hill’s McLeods pies and pasties. Chalkys coffee van...

13 Mar 2025

News

High stakes for regional clubs

LIQUOR and Gaming NSW inspectors have begun conducing a compliance operation at regional clubs and hotels throughout March. Checks will be done to ensure venues understand and are compiling with external gambling signage rules, as well as recent...

31 Mar 2025

Police & Courts

Jury finds man not guilty on child sex charges

A MAN has been found not guilty of child sex charges after a District Court jury in Broken Hill deliberated for half-an-hour on Friday. The 38-year-old man was charged with one count of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child aged between 14 and...

31 Mar 2025

News

Free writing comp open for regional writers

A FREE writing competition facilitated by Country Press NSW, the peak body representing independent regional newspapers, is calling on entries from primary and secondary school students, and adults, living in readership areas of the Country Press...

31 Mar 2025

Farming & Environment

Spiny burrgrass outbreak at Wilcannia Cemetery

AN invasive weed known as spiny burrgrass has been found in Wilcannia Cemetery. This weed has a sharp and clingy burr with the ability to spread rapidly and tendency to develop into dense infestations in favourable conditions. It is easily spread due...

31 Mar 2025

Video

News

Murray Darling Basin Authority and NSW Government act on water concern

THE Murray Darling Basin Authority and New South Wales Government are working together to monitor and manage water quality in the Menindee Lakes and the lower Darling-Baaka ahead of summer. Concerns about water quality including dissolved...

19 Dec 2024

Farming & Environment

MDBA meet to discuss upcoming reports

THE Murray-Darling Basin Authority met last week in Griffith to discuss challenges that come with ageing water assets such as weirs, locks and storages, and the importance of these assets in managing water resources. Work is underway to address...

31 Mar 2025

Education

Author shares inspiration with kids

CHILDREN’S author Nathan Luff spent this week in Broken Hill hosting creative writing workshops at local schools. Luff, who authored The Nerd Herd series along with numerous other books, grew up in Yass and said he understand the importance of...

30 Mar 2025

Southside businesses feel forgotten

BUSINESS owners along Patton Street in South Broken Hill have begun working together to promote their side of town, with many believing their area has been forgotten by locals and council alike. Two of the most vocal businesses in this new campaign...

30 Mar 2025

Arts & Entertainment

Away to take centre stage

IT’S almost time for the actors of Theatre 44’s production of Away by Michael Gow to take to the stage. Away is an Australian play set in 1968 that tells the story of three families, whose only connection is the school that their...

29 Mar 2025

Sport

Sport

Sandbaggers shoot sees top scores at 300 yards

THE Silver City and National Servicemen’s Rifle Club conducted a Sandbaggers target shoot on Sunday for service, sniper and tactical rifles at the 300 yard range. The weather was warm and sunny with a light to moderate breeze that didn’t bother the...

28 Mar 2025

Bowls

Bowls Notes

Broken Hill Men’s Indoor Bowls AssociationRESULTS after round 9 played on Tuesday night, March 25. Flags defeated Try Hards 18 to 8. Demo defeated Sturt 19 to 12. Last round next Tuesday before we move into the finals. The ladder stands now at:Muso...

28 Mar 2025

Sport

Sports reporter’s decades of dedication

AN accomplished junior sportsman and a member of the Barrier’s 1982 Harry Meyer Cup-winning cricket team, at the SACA Country Cup as a tear-away quick, John Casey has come through the ranks of Australia’s sporting media to become one of the...

28 Mar 2025

Cricket

Cricket legend a true servant of the sport

ONE of the great servants of Broken Hill cricket, Paul “Paddy” Attard signed off on a brilliant cricket career in perfect style for a proud family man, playing in a West Broken Hill A grade cricket premiership with his two lads, just four short...

22 Mar 2025

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

Keep being smart

THIS Summer we reflect on a milestone in our state’s fight against skin cancer. January marks a decade since Victoria banned commercial solariums -- a landmark decision that has undoubtedly saved countless lives. Before the ban, solariums were...

02 Feb 2025

Letters to the editor

Federal election looms

G’DAY folks,Here we are nearly at the end of January, another year under way, and already things are starting to pick up pace after the festive season. I hope that everybody had a chance to get some down time, although I know that for some people...

31 Jan 2025

Letters to the editor

Speak up, just not for the Greens

AS A country person I get frustrated and dismayed at uneducated city influence which is adversely impacting not only our rural lifestyle, but also the cost of living for everyone. Greens policies are reducing the ability of our farmers to grow...

01 Feb 2025

Letters to the editor

Welcome move

CONGRATULATIONS to members of the Malyangapa Native Title Claim Group who made the call to stop providing welcome to countries to non-Indigenous people. If people were not taking the events seriously, or even worse, disprecting the meanings behind...

18 Jan 2025

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