A man and woman were due to face court on Monday following several pursuits across the Oxley Police District in an alleged stolen car at the weekend. Just after 6am on Sunday, a council worker was routinely opening up public toilets in Kelly Street, Scone, when a man...
Getting ready for school can be a chaotic time in most family households: the hustle and bustle of packing lunchboxes while eating breakfast, remembering library books, finishing homework, getting everyone dressed in the correct uniforms, and then racing to the bus...
The November 1939 Narrabri telephone book makes interesting, although brief, reading - there aren’t that many phone subscribers listed. The family names which are with us today were with us then. The Courier office had the distinction of having ‘number 1’ as the first...
Topical encountered a travelling couple in Narrabri on the weekend heading north towing a jetski behind their car. “We thought we might have to use it on the flooded roads,” they joked. “It took us 14 hours to get from Melbourne to Dubbo and now we are navigating our...
Last week’s escape by five lions from their Taronga Zoo enclosure aroused interest - particularly among zoo visitors at the time. Patrons were escorted to a ‘lion safe’ area as a precaution. They included campers who stay in the zoo grounds overnight under canvas. The...
Thumbs down to Inland Rail for the proposal to use Gibbons Street for all the heavy construction traffic – a small example of which happened with heavy vehicles needed due to emergency repairs on an electricity transformer in the same location.
Anyone looked at Australian airfares lately? They are atrocious. Australia is such a vast country air travel is the only way to go when you don’t have much time. The train to Sydney is great but takes all day. Air travel to go between our capital cities costs what a...
Why doesn’t someone do something about it? We often hear it said about lots of issues - but Narrabri resident Lexie Killen decided to act and ‘do something.’ “I became aware that experienced local palliative care nurse Fiona Campbell was obliged to undertake a course...
Cindy Neil and Heather Caton are the Narrabri Women’s Bowling Club’s president pairs champions for 2022. Neil and Caton had to give a seven-shot start to Sue Solomon and Janice Foxe in Saturday morning’s final at the Narrabri Bowling Club, and they were able to come...
Support for flood-affected communities, including Narrabri Shire, has been expanded with additional assistance for primary producers. Member for Parkes Mark Coulton said eligible primary producers in the shire were able to apply for recovery grants as part of the...
Narrabri District Cricket Association’s representative first XI put up a brave fight but fell agonisingly short when a 420-run thriller was said and done in round two of the 2022/23 MA Connolly Cup campaign on Sunday. The Pink Slugs finally began their championship...
Narrabri Fire and Rescue responded to a rescue incident 18 kilometres from Narrabri on the Maules Creek Road after a car had become trapped in flood water on Friday afternoon. Crews were on-scene within 20 minutes of the Triple Zero (000) call and found a Ford...