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Hammertime and Hounddogs remain undefeated as field switch approaches

Hammertime and Hounddogs remain undefeated as field switch approaches

Round eight of Narrabri Touch’s 2026 campaign season one mixed competition will be the last time the teams take the field at Cooma Oval ahead of the mid-season switch to Hogan Oval and Leitch Oval to play under lights. Daylight saving time will end on Monday, April 6,...

Livestock numbers ease to 5850 at this week’s sale

Livestock numbers ease to 5850 at this week’s sale

Numbers eased in Gunnedah this week to yard 5850 cattle. 1400 less than the previous week. It was a fair quality yarding with large numbers of cows presented. All major buyers were in attendance with steady competition on the cows while the top end of the feeder...

Racing returns to Narrabri as Gerety claims the Cup

Racing returns to Narrabri as Gerety claims the Cup

It was a memorable day of racing at the Narrabri Racecourse on Saturday as five races took place at the Narrabri Jockey Club's 2026 raceday. The 1200-metre Qube Agri Narrabri Cup was the fourth race of the day, which was won by the Olivia Dalton-ridden Gerety for...

Charlie’s Charts 19th March 2026

Charlie’s Charts 19th March 2026

The local market is down around 1.5 percent today after another bombing of middle-east energy infrastructure from Iran overnight. This is the local market over a longer term timeframe. The price of gold fell below $US5,000 overnight. Some analysts suggest the gold...

New staff welcomed to Fairfax Public School

New staff welcomed to Fairfax Public School

Fairfax School community were very grateful to the welcome much-needed rain in the district recently. Hopefully, we can receive some good follow up rain. It is amazing how quickly the rain has freshened and greened up our grounds. The students are well and truly...

ArtsNational kicks off the 2026 season

ArtsNational kicks off the 2026 season

ArtsNational Narrabri celebrated a start to their 2026 season of arts talks with London-based guest speaker Ian Swankie presenting an illustrated talk on Great Railway Stations in cinema one at The Crossing Theatre on Monday, March 9. Mr Swankie is currently visiting...

Country racing returns to Narrabri on Saturday

Country racing returns to Narrabri on Saturday

The Narrabri Jockey Club is gearing up for its annual race meeting this Saturday, March 21, with the community invited to enjoy a great day of country racing at the Narrabri Racecourse. In the lead-up to race day, the club’s committee and volunteers have been working...

A privilege to work at The Courier for more than three decades

A privilege to work at The Courier for more than three decades

After more than 30 years, this will be my last edition working at The Courier newspaper. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at The Courier, firstly with Wanda and Ian Dunnet at the helm and more recently Mark and Susie Slack-Smith. I have loved meeting so many...

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