Broken Hill Times

Event to shop local

BROKEN Hill’s Small Biz Collective have come up with a new idea to encourage people to shop local. The Mother’s Day Sip, Shop and Spoil event will be held on Thursday, May 1, and will feature a guided shopping experience, refreshments at The...

8 hours ago

Community

ANZAC What’s on

6am Anzac Day Dawn ServiceMarchers assemble at 5am in front of BH RSL Sub BranchRum rations5.40am Marchers line up on right hand side of road5.50am March off with drummer to CenotaphOpening address by BH RSL presidentInvocation by MinisterHymn by...

24 Apr 2025

Arts & Entertainment

What’s on this week

Games club 6.30pm, PCYC, 58 Gympsum Street Discover a variety of table top games at the Broken Hill Game Club. Meet new friends, learn new games, and have a blast. All welcome. Life drawing 6pm, Broken Hill City Art Gallery Immerse yourself in the...

24 Apr 2025

Business

Dahlias in the desert

KEEN gardener Sarah Vlatko started growing flowers in her backyard purely for enjoyment, but after receiving interest from people wanting to buy them, she now delivers them throughout Broken Hill. Ms Vlatko said though she’s always loved flowers...

8 hours ago

Farming & Environment

Pressing news: Olive harvest begins

AS predicted by the Broken Hill Gourmet Products Co-Operative in March, its 600-tree olive grove’s fruit was perfectly ripe and ready to harvest this Easter, with the harvest beginning on Monday. Co-op chair Steve Flecknoe-Brown was joined by...

8 hours ago

Community

Ball nominations open

YOUNG Broken Hill women are being invited to nominate for the Civic Ball. Broken Hill City Council is looking for 2025 Civic Ball debutantes. The ball will take place on Friday, October 24 at the Civic Centre and nominations close on May 30. As one of...

8 hours ago

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

Arts & Entertainment

Circles of Beauty to brighten centre

THE Civic Centre will see its windows transformed into a luminous gallery for the upcoming Outback Sufi Conference next month. Striking geometric designs by Tasmanian artist Hanifa Leoni Macfarlane will take over the facade of the Civic Centre, with...

22 hours ago

Health

GP awards open for nominations

THE Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine (ACRRM) has announced the opening of nominations for its excellence awards, urging the public to nominate their favourite health professionals. ACRRM’s award season features 44 regional and...

22 hours ago

Interest grows in reopening boarding home

ADVERTISING for the reopening of Allison House is set to go out, after overwhelming pressure to have the boarding home run again in 2027. After the boarding facility for isolated high school students closed last year due to declining numbers, there...

22 hours ago

News

House fire probe

A HOUSE fire in Chapple Street is now under police and fire investigation. Firefighters were called to a house fire about 6.20pm on Wednesday. Crews from Broken Hill Fire Station and Broken Hill South found a house well alight on arrival. Broken Hill...

25 Apr 2025

Sport

Bowls

Bowls notes

North Broken HillGOOD Friday Triples Tournament. Twelve teams, bolstered by several reserves, played four games of three bowl triples. There emerged two unbeaten sides for the whole day. They were:1st on 350 points; Ray Grenfell, Wayne Anderson and...

25 Apr 2025

Football

Bulldogs to clip Magpies wings

CENTRALS are coming off a pretty good pre-season block and I anticipate they will come out the blocks hard. My only concern with the Magpies is controlling the ball on the outside. Do they have that outside speed to do that? If they do...

25 Apr 2025

Football

South Roos taking on West Robins

I THINK the game will start pretty intense with both teams working hard at it with high volumes of pressure as the game wears on. I think the class of South will over run the Westies; West have a good attitude of not giving in and...

25 Apr 2025

Bowls

Bowls notes

North Broken Hill Bowling Club ReportGood Friday Triples TournamentTwelve teams, bolstered by several reserves, played four games of three bowl triples. There emerged two unbeaten sides for the whole day. They were:1st 350 points Ray Grenfell, Wayne...

25 Apr 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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