FANS of The Melbourne Cup celebrated throughout Broken Hill at The Demo Club, Sturt Club and Musos Club on Tuesday with big screens throughout town televising the race and locals frocked up for the occasion. Pictures: Em Jensen
WITH extreme weather events occurring more regularly recently across Australia, farmers are being encouraged to register with Rural Aid, a charity assists in times of…
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a fire on Cummins Street last week. The blaze appeared to break out at the back of the Cummins Street house on Thursday. Crews were quick…
TWELVE people were honoured at the Broken Hill City Council’s Australia Day Event with Australia Day Awards for their service to the community. Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist and author,…
A NEW preschool looks set to open in the coming weeks after a lease was approved for the space formerly occupied by Playtime Preschool. At Broken Hill City Council’s Ordinary…
NEW rules introduced by the New South Wales State Government will see councillors stand to speak in council meetings. At this month’s ordinary council meeting on Wednesday, the first for…
HUNDREDS of fish have died near Weir 32 at Menindee this week as temperatures soared to about 50 degrees Celsius along the river and water temperatures climbed to about 28…
AS a prolonged heatwave continued to put stress on the electricity network this week, related power outages caused Coles to dumb a large amount of products. The supermarket was impacted…
FRIDAY The Workshop 343 Blende Street, 9.30am The Royal Flying Doctor Service Broken Hill Wellbeing Place hosts a free variety of craft and woodworking activities. Unblinding: Reversing type 2 diabetes…
LAKE Menindee’s Site 19 and Outlet Regulator have been issued with blue-green algae red alert warnings this week, after recent testing was carried out at the sites. A precautionary red…
A NUMBER of citizens and groups were recognised Central Darling Shire on Australia Day. The awards were an opportunity to acknowledge the contributions to the community by publicly thanking individual…
BROKEN Hill and the surrounding region sweltered through a severe heatwave this week, with records broken throughout the north west NSW region, down to the Mallee, Murraylands and Riverland. Tuesday…
