Saturday is gearing up to be a day to remember for local rugby union fans as Narrabri Rugby Club prepares to host its annual Ladies’ Day event at Dangar Park in round nine of the 2023 Central North Rugby Union season. Ladies’ Day is an important event on the calendar...
The local market has been moving higher slowly off the recent low. Can it break the series of lower tops? According to some analysts around 40 per cent of mortgage holders on low rates have yet to roll over to higher interest rates. More pain coming for parts of the...
The Narrabri Eisteddfod entered its second session with resounding success, with the category of dance attracting an array of talent from the local district and further afield. Convenors Nicole Gleeson-Lendon and Stacey Dunn were joined by the hardworking team of...
State Member for Northern Tablelands Adam Marshall has taken his call for more police resources in the region direct to the Minister for Police Yasmin Catley, during a meeting in parliament. Mr Marshall asked the minister for additional senior police positions to be...
Former cotton scientist Dr Nicola Cottee has returned to her research roots, joining CRDC's innovation team. Dr Cottee has a long-standing association with CRDC, the industry and cotton research. She completed her CRDC and CSIRO-supported PhD into the heat tolerance...
Liverpool Plains farmer and National Farmers’ Federation president Fiona Simson will take her agricultural advocacy to a global level following her election to the World Farmers’ Organisation. Ms Simson, who was elected in 2016 as the national federation’s first...
For the lovers of poultry breeding, their birds can be works of art on two legs. And it is easy to see why. “Look at the colours on this bird,” one exhibitor asked The Courier photographer at Saturday’s annual Narrabri Poultry Show. “There are blues, browns, reds -...
By PUBLICITY OFFICER Narrabri Garden Club’s monthly meeting was held at the Scout Hall in Wukawa Street on Wednesday, May 10. As usual Lyn Tuckey and her team provided a delicious morning tea. Our vice president Wendy McNair, who is head steward of the horticultural...
The Narrabri River Markets have become a Narrabri institution over the years. There have been peaks and troughs, including the COVID hiatus, but nowadays the markets are firmly entrenched as part of the community scene. The riverside markets were born some 25 years...
Mayors and councillors from across regional NSW have come out fighting after accusations of being “incompetent and not worthy of the money they are paid to serve their communities” in a recent speech delivered by new Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig during...
By Jimmy Whalan Competitors at the 2023 North West Equestrian Expo were met with more dust than mud this year, with mostly clear weather throughout the 31st year of the event. The annual competition ran from Friday, June 2 to Tuesday, June 6, with 500 competitors from...
An impressive diversity of community members’ contributions and achievements is again reflected in the King’s Birthday Honours announced on Monday. North Western residents whose community service has taken them from the Republic of Nepal, country businesses and local...