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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
Business

Rudi’s clothing store suits daughter

By Em JensenRUDOLPH Alagich’s, a tailor and clothing store on Patton Street, has been stylishly dressing Broken Hill’s residents for almost eighty years. Store founder Mr Alagich, often called Rudi, was a tailor who began his career in the 1940s...

14 Mar 2025
Business

Studio a long term commitment

OWNER and head artist at Red Desert Ink, Jay Farquhar, hopes his tattoo studio on Argent Street becomes a business passed down through his family line for generations.“I have children and would presume they’re going to do this too, so long term...

08 Mar 2025
News

Youth jobs program offers skill sets

A FREE program funded by the New South Wales Department of Education called Skillset has set up shop in Broken Hill and is aiming to help young people who want to leave school, or those who have already left, to find their next...

07 Mar 2025
Business

Vintage Fashion shop reopens in time for St Pats

AFTER a six-month hiatus, vintage store Jonnie Loves Noreen on Patton Street have reopened this month, just in time for St Patrick’s Day racegoers to take a deep dive of the shelves in search of a 1960s outfit to fit this years theme...

01 Mar 2025
Business

Red Gum Honey Gin at the Pooncarie Telegraph Hotel

DANIEL and Caitlin Powe relocated to Pooncarie to take over the Telegraph Hotel’s lease three years ago and haven’t looked back. The Powe’s were running Broken Hill’s Line of Lode Café, which closed for renovations after COVID-19...

28 Feb 2025
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Childrens store owner asks for local support

SEVEN years ago Michelle McLachlan walked into the Lollipop Tree on Argent Street to buy kids clothes and ended up buying the shop.“I’d worked at the pharmacy for 34 years, so I didn’t know anything else,” Ms McLachlan said.“But I wanted...

15 Feb 2025
Business

Of rodeo shirts and rescue roos

LATE at night on a station about 160kms out of Cobar, Kate Lauritsen-Graham sews button-up blouses for rodeo riders while her joey, Zoey watches from the comfort of a pillowcase pouch beside her.“I spend the day working fixing fences, on the...

14 Feb 2025
Business

Millers, Autograph leave gap in women’s clothing market

FOLLOWING the collapse of Australian fashion retailer Mosaic, Broken Hill’s Millers and Autograph stores are shutting down - leaving a sizeable gap in an already limited clothing market. The shutdowns are nationwide and not just limited to Millers...

14 Feb 2025
Community

Gardner by name, gardner by nature

GEOFF Gardner and his late wife packed up the car and hit the road from Taree on the New South Wales Coast some 14 years ago but only made it as far as Broken Hill.“We’d had a big wholesale nursery on a place called Oxley Island near Taree,”...

11 Feb 2025
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Parking problems cause tensions to rise

LOCAL business owner Gary Werch has begun a petition calling on the Broken Hill City Council to re-evaluate Oxide Street’s parking arrangements due to a large volume of shoppers and not enough long-term parking. Mr Werch owns Freechoice...

08 Feb 2025
Business

Attards’ extended hours approved

A DEVELOPMENT application by a local trucking company has been approved by Broken Hill City Council. Attards Transport Service applied to have the company’s hours updated in November last year. The matter went before December’s Council meeting, with...

07 Feb 2025
Business

Dinner seeks to serve up welcome

BROKEN HIll’s first ever New to Town Dinner is on the menu for Saturday, February 8, with the aim of offering a free night of fun and food to welcome new people to the region. The dinner is run by the Silver City Christian Revival Crusade...

01 Feb 2025
Business

Powerful project wants local businesses

STAFF at energy storage developer Hydrostor, part of the soon to be opened Silver City Energy Storage Centre -- or SCESC -- in Broken Hill, are inviting local enterprises to attend the project’s business and industry engagement sessions in...

01 Feb 2025
News

It’s a win win at Tip Shop

AN up-cyclers dream, the Lifeline Tip Shop sells second-hand goods for bargain prices, while also offering locals the opportunity to recycle unwanted items to help prevent them ending up in landfill. Manager Jodie Anderson has run the...

26 Jan 2025
Business

Gin grins pour top tipple success

OXIDE Street’s Tydvil Hotel is not only one of the most popular pubs in the Silver City but has also been recognised internationally for its iconic distilled in-house gins. Distiller and publican Paul Hanna runs the Broken Hill Distillery from the...

24 Jan 2025
Business

Black mass leads charge

DURING the week Cobalt Blue Holdings put out a presentation on the possibility of extensive global opportunities within the company’s ReMine+ Strategy. In December, last year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding with...

19 Jan 2025