User Profile

Emily McInerney

Guide to the Outback and beyond

WHEN the Barrier Daily Truth closed, Katherine Waite saw a hole that she felt could fill with a multi-media spin. That’s how ‘A Home in the Outback’ started – it’s a magazine, podcast and website outlet offering people from Broken Hill and out of...

23 Dec 2024

News

Councillors air Rex concerns

A VERBAL motion voicing concern over the continuity of service from Rex Airlines was put forward at Wednesday night’s Broken Hill City Council meeting. Mayor Cr Tom Kennedy said he would like to see continuity of service and support for a solution to...

20 Dec 2024

Farming & Environment

Water sharing plan needs change

THE new water sharing plan for the Barwon-Darling won’t help unless new plans are implemented to create more flows down the Darling. The State Government recently announced an extension on the public exhibition of draft water sharing plans for...

20 Dec 2024

News

Development and certification

DEVELOPMENT APPLICATIONS COUNCIL determined 141 development applications during 2023/24. The value of works for approved development applications totalled more than $32.44 million. This included $20.9 million value of works for commercial/industrial...

18 Dec 2024

News

Museums support success

COUNCIL’S Museum Advisor Program has benefited the city’s museums during the 2023/2024 period. As stated in Council’s Draft Annual report, the Council, in partnership with Museums and Galleries of NSW, runs a Museum Advisor...

17 Dec 2024

News

Still a chance to have photo with Santa

SANTA Claus has come to town and is spending a lot of time at Westside Plaza having his photo taken with those on two legs and those on four. The free Santa photos have been running since the start of December with photographer Kieran Nash capturing...

17 Dec 2024

News

Council on the right path

FOOTPATHS are a common concern of residents in Broken Hill, but in the 2023/2024 period Council constructed more than one kilometres of shared paths. As part of the Active Transport Plan shared footpath network upgrade, Council constructed one...

13 Dec 2024

News

Funding for airport upgrade

CITY Council continues to lobby for an airport upgrade after securing $10 million for apron and taxiway upgrades while still needing a further $15 million. The Council said it remains committed to increasing access to the region...

13 Dec 2024

Community

Cake effort wheely good

MEALS on Wheels clients have received their annual Christmas cakes thanks to the Broken Hill Cake Decorators and the Broken Hill Rotary Club. The tradition which started in 1983 saw the cake decorators volunteer their time to make the Christmas...

13 Dec 2024

News

Time added to opal input process

COMMUNITY consultations are continuing surrounding the New South Wales Government’s opals report. In 2023, the Minister for Natural Resources Courtney Houssos announced the commencement of a small-scale opal mining titles validation program to...

13 Dec 2024

News

Wall works a sign of progress

THE first wall of the new Broken Hill Library is up. The municipality’s general manager Jay Nankivell said more walls are set to go up in the new library redevelopment soon.“Everything is tracking along quite well, we’re really happy with the...

13 Dec 2024

Farming & Environment

More input sought on water plans

THE New South Wales Government has extended the public exhibition period for draft water sharing plans across regional areas of the state until early 2025 with the aim of giving communities even more time to have their say. The time extension...

13 Dec 2024