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Family in distress needs your help
A TRAGIC chain of events has forced local woman Sharon Ginn to start a GoFundMe page for her daughter’s little family. Ms Ginn’s daughter, Trish,…
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Butler’s big plan to save greyhound racing
BARWON MP Roy Butler has begun a campaign to save Broken Hill Greyhound track ahead of 30 June closure. Earlier in the year Greyhound Racing…
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Men serve up a safe space
IN a private room in a restaurant in the Sydney suburb of Surry Hills in June 2011, Ben Hughes admitted to a group of friends…
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Mysterious power cuts blamed on heat
POWER outages rolled through Broken Hill last week as the heatwave tested substations to breaking point. The Broken Hill City Council administration building lost power…
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All hands on deck as house fires burn
LOCAL fire and rescue teams were stretched to capacity on Thursday as two houses burnt while a scrub fire raged. Station Officer Craig Burke attended…
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Murray-Darling Basin Plan under review
ON their website, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority say that for the past 13 years the group has “worked towards ensuring a healthy working Murray-Darling Basin”.…
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Groups line up for input on plan
SPECIAL interest, stakeholder, and lobby groups are lining up to have their say on the Murray-Darling Basin Authority’s review of it’s Basin Plan. Here’s what…
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From Broken Hill to radios around the world
A YOUTH spent in Broken Hill has inspired the music of self-taught multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Riles Nicholas, who releases music under the name Hidden Mirage.…
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Art after school
A NEW afterschool arts program for kids will begin this school semester, with the Broken Hill Art Exchange offering classes in the Kitchen Gallery behind…
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Sport
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Weather washes out T20 finals
WET weather has washed out the Barrier District Cricket League’s T20 finals, with the prize money split between the sides set to play in last…
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Experienced Bull rage past Llamas
IT was a battle of youthful exuberance against hard-edged experience when the top of the table Fiorelli Bulls clashed with the Layup Llamas. Experience won…
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Mitchell’s men and their long run in
EIGHTY-TWO days, that’s the difference between North Broken Hill Football Club’s first pre-season training, and its first game on Anzac Day against Central. “All the…
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Year gets off with a bang
ON Sunday 1 February the Broken Hill Field and Game Association started off the 2026 shooting year with a 50 target sporting clays graded championship.…
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T20 grand final time
IT all comes down to this; Alma Oval hosts the grand final, as Central and South fight for third and North takes on West for…
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Council pushes to keep greyhound racing
RACING New South Wales Minister David Harris has been invited to Broken Hill after council voted to make a last-ditch appeal to save the town’s…
Entertainment
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Willyama Arts anniversary
THE Willyama Arts Society celebrated it’s 64th annual exhibition on Friday night with the Willyama Art Awards. President of the society, Dennis Hebbard, said he…
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Spiritual festival welcomes all souls
THE Outback Spiritual Festival gets underway today at the Broken Hill Racecourse and it continues to grow in size. Medium and event organiser Jill Blackburn…
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What’s on in Broken Hill?
TODAY Rainbow in the Outback 81 Buck Street, 6pm Live music, drag shows, DJs are just the beginning as the Rainbow in the Outback Festival…
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Councillor Byrne resigns due to work commitments
BROKEN Hill city councillor Ashley Byrne has resigned, effective immediately, due to work commitments. Council has contacted the NSW Electoral Commission to begin the process…
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Biggest Bash yet
THE biggest Mundi Mundi Bash festival yet took place over the weekend, with about 15,000 festivalgoers in attendance to spend four days on the plains…
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Food, fuel and industry
CHANGED traffic conditions may affect Broken Hill residents who have engineering on their minds. The industrial belt at Kanandah Road will be upset until September…
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Local artist takes on Tokyo
A BROKEN Hill tote bag featured in a film clip by a Japanese pop, R and B and jazz artist, Fujii Kaze, set the wheels…
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Man killed in Broken Hill car crash
A man, aged in his 50s, has passed away after a single-vehicle crash on Beryl Street in Broken Hill this morning. About 5.30am, Saturday 7…
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State financial lifeline for council
CENTRAL Darling Shire faces financial sustainability risks, according to a recent report from the New South Wales Auditor General, but a circuit breaker from the…
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School’s back, so slow down!
SCHOOLS in New South Wales will return on 9 February, and along with them the 40 kilometre per hour speed limit in school zones that…
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Famous eye doc warns diabetes is blinding people
RENOWNED eye surgeon and 2020 Australian of the Year Dr James Muecke has returned to Broken Hill with a stark warning; type 2 diabetes is…
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Town tees up to support Huxley
BROKEN Hill is continuing to rally around one-year-old Huxley Maguire, who is living with the rare genetic condition known as Angelman’s Syndrome. Typically those with…
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School to make new year return
IT’S that time of year. Come Monday morning, parents will breathe a quiet sigh of relief and get the kids in the car ahead of…
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Dust storm or haboob?
FOR most locals, the dust storm that swallowed Broken Hill last Sunday was nothing out of the ordinary. November 2018’s was bigger, and the shocker…
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Stolen ring must come home
A WILCANNIA school teacher is begging locals to be on the lookout for a stolen heirloom. Bronte Wagstaffe teaches at Wilcannia Central School but was…
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Broken Hill’s Marilyn dives in
TO celebrate her last cancer treatment, local Jonnah Ortega Austen will be taking part in the Marilyn Jetty Swim: Poolside Edition on Sunday 8 February.…