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The Local Government Authorities Arts and Cultural Program will provide more than $6.6 million to councils across NSW over the next three years. The list of recipients, including Lake Macquarie cultural festival ($150,000 per...

The widening of the Kamilaroi Highway from Turrawan towards Baan Baa is well underway. A reader recalls when the concept of a turning lane, or ‘slip road’, at the Turrawan Road – Kamilaroi turn off was first put forward in...

And in the history department – “Not so many decades ago,” a reader tells Topical “ Yarrie Lake Road was a dirt road with some pretty rough patches. When deliberations for the development of a solar radio observatory at...

Narrabri Show’s annual wheat competition organisers could reasonably expect plenty of entries in this year’s competition. There will be some fantastic crops out there and there is still time to be part of the competition....

End of year high school formals have been given the green light to go ahead by the NSW government. However, the actual format of the events is up in the air for many schools as they consider ways to hold a formal in a Covid safe...

The perennial topic of the correct name for the body of water flowing through Narrabri has arisen again. “The Namoi River hasn’t flowed for years – it should be renamed the Creek and the Creek should logically be renamed...

Topical put this question, above, to a veteran local who didn’t agree, but added that ‘we also have Narrabri rivulet’. “It will show up on old town maps between Tibbereena Street and Narrabri Creek,” he claims. “The rivulet has...

The walkers raising awareness and fundraising for Beyond Blue, Maria McDonnell and Helen Dugdale, trekked 30 kilometres, or a total of 43,000 steps, on their walk from Narrabri West to Yarrie Lake! Beyond Blue is a lead agency...

Interesting times ahead in the November US elections. President Trump announced in August that “the only way we are going to lose this election is if it is rigged.” The respected Economist magazine’s election forecasting model...