Author: Blake Jarrett

Has it really been that long? On April 3, 1973, the first mobile phone call was made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey.

March has proven to be a wet month for Narrabri with almost 190mm recorded at the Bureau of Meteorology’s Narrabri Airport station. But it’s nothing compared to the wettest March on record … 510.3mm in 1894. March 1894 is...

Clocks go back an hour on Sunday, April 6. That means winter is near. However, don’t get the doona out yet. The Bureau of Meteorology outlook for April to June says above average daily temperatures are very likely (greater than...