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Company seeks to ‘consolidate’ region’s mines
AN effort to consolidate some of the region’s mines is soon to be finalised with the recently established Broken Hill Mines (BHM) set to complete…
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All aboard Outback dinner
ON Saturday night local chef and owner of SaltBush Restaurant Lee Cecchin hosted fifty visitors from all over Australia at the Sulphide Street Railway and…
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Grid power set to return Friday
TRANSGRID staff have completed the reconstruction of the storm-damaged transmission lines and are expecting to swap from the generators to mains supply in Broken Hill…
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Conduct policy endorsed – Broken Hill City Council meeting briefs
BROKEN Hill City Council endorsed a review of the Councillor Conduct and Meeting Practices at their Wednesday, October 30 meeting. In September, the Office of…
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What’s on for the next seven days (and nights)?
FRIDAY Exhibition Openings Broken Hill City Art Gallery, 6pm Opening night events for the Maari Ma Indigenous Art Awards, Same time/ Same place (COEXISTENCE), Wampa-waru…
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Outback pigeon racer takes on world
LONGSTANDING pigeon breeder Trevor Grillett has been racing his birds for almost 60 years, with his pigeons soon to be competing internationally in Pattaya, Thailand,…
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Call for inquiry answered
AN investigation into the cause of Broken Hill’s energy crisis has started, the New South Wales Government has confirmed. A government statement said the Independent…
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A real SCREAM: reptile park coming
Broken Hill will soon be home to a new conservation-focused reptile park, with local snake catcher Ash McInnes liaising with local businesses about the new…
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Lode up on cake, spectacular views
Broken Hill’s iconic Line of Lode is entering a new era, welcoming locals and tourists on an ad-hoc basis to its Broken Earth Complex, following…
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Focus on artefacts
CAMBRIDGE University PHD student Eleanor Foster visited the Far West this month to conduct research on Indigenous Australian artefacts that were collected from colonial pastoral…
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All square in city centre
A POPULAR meeting place in the CBD is undergoing a facelift to make it more community friendly. In July, City Council announced they would begin…
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Lake birds an open book
AVID bird watcher and photographer Geoff Looney recently released his first book Birds of the Menindee Lakes Area, a field guide to birdlife in the…
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