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It was good news that Sporties, formerly Narrabri Bowling Club, will reopen for business after being in voluntary administration. As the Administrator noted, the club is a great asset in a growing town and would lend itself to...

‘Unprecedented’ is a word commonly used nowadays in the context of COVID-19. But we can’t use it in terms of the NSW-Victoria border closure – the border was last closed in 1919 to try and stop the Spanish Flu pandemic...

“People need to be careful with their choice of words nowadays, and also retrospectively,” a reader says. “The reported resignation of a Boeing executive has been welcomed after he was found to have ‘opposed women in combat 33...

Narrabri Hazmat personnel responded to a minor incident in Maitland Street on Tuesday. A pool of several litres of oil was lying in the gutter in front of Narrabri Post office. ‘We think it was leaked sump oil,” said Narrabri...

Why is the world not surprised? Russian president Vladimir Putin has just won a ‘referendum’ which consolidates him as president for life. He scored an amazing 78 percent of the vote. Voters may have been confused – there...

China has responded to the Australian government’s accusations that China is engaged in ramping up its cyber attacks against Australia. Now the Chinese government’s Global Times newspaper claims that Australia has been spying....

The Prime Minister last week warned of increasingly ferocious cyber attacks on Australian governments, research establishments, local government, businesses, schools, the list is long, by an unnamed ‘sophisticated state-based...

The hoarding is apparently underway again as Victoria worries about a new spike in COVID-19. Toilet paper is always the prime target, but some food lines as well. “We have a population of 25 million,” an exasperated Victoria...

Narrabri’s award winning choral group, Harmony Inc., will be back in voice soon after having spent the past few months ‘socially distancing’ like the rest of the community. The popular group will soon be back on song with new...