Can Bendemeer’s Josh Hazelwood help keep Australia’s Twenty20 World Cup hopes alive, after being beaten by 24 runs by India.
New England Times Newsdesk with AAP
Posted inNSW Politics
Former regional health minister Bronnie Taylor departs politics
The NSW Opposition will lose another high-profile MP with the departure of Nationals deputy leader Bronnie Taylor.
Posted inNSW Politics
Health, housing and schools to benefit from NSW budget
New spending to ease the housing crisis and boost health and education outcomes will be key features of Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s second budget today.
Posted inEducation
PM weighs in on fresh push for free or cheap childcare
Families could pay just $10 a day for three days a week of early childhood education as momentum builds to reform the troubled system.
Posted inNews
Households keep falling behind as rate increases bite
New England borrowers are feeling the squeeze with more mortgage-holders falling behind on their monthly repayments. When will it ease?
Posted inGeneral News
Tree changers expecting too much from life in the country
Country roads are increasingly taking city slickers to their new homes, but the great migration to our region is not all it is cracked up to be for councils.
Posted inGwydir Shire, Indigenous, Memorials and funerals
Hundreds attend Myall Creek Massacre commemoration
Hundreds of people have gathered to remember the day Aboriginal people were massacred by stockmen in our region 186 years ago.
Posted inEnergy
Keeping the lights on during solar, wind droughts
New energy storage to ride out the solar and wind doldrums is the key to the nation’s power needs, not “uneconomic” nuclear reactors, an industry report finds.
Posted inHealth, Tamworth
New England women driving for hours to access understaffed midwifery units
A NSW Parliamentary inquiry has heard the Tamworth midwifery team are short 58% of the required staff.
Posted inArmidale, Entertainment
Landmark Cold Chisel 50th anniversary tour to begin in Armidale
Australian rockers Cold Chisel will revisit their history when they perform 11 special concerts to mark 50 years since the group formed, starting in Armidale.