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STRIKE WEAPON: Brendan Rixon has returned to the Central North side for the Country Championships.

Central North ‘confident’ ahead of Country Championships

Mark Bode

Up for grabs: Last season's Touch Champs "Sprayers" are no more. Who will be the Premiers this season?

Sam’s in demand

AJ Cross

Four top reasons to celebrate

Coogee Cross

STRIKE WEAPON: Brendan Rixon has returned to the Central North side for the Country Championships.

Central North ‘confident’ ahead of Country Championships

Uralla on top in cricket comp

A. J. Cross

Thomas Deng (l) and Awer Mabil have opened sporting doors for African-born sportsmen in Australia.

African Australians blaze sporting pathway

Steve Larkin

The Walcha Farmers' Market is held in McHattan Park on the third Saturday of the month during spring and summer

Farmers’ market this Saturday is a festival highlight

Vanessa Arundale

CHARM SET: The Walcha Quilters will hold another colourful exhibition of quilts from across the region.

Quilting exhibition opens Friday night in Walcha

Vanessa Arundale

SURREALIST SINGER: Hester Fraser (aka Goldheist) in front of one of Needham's works.

Walcha Mountain Festival features on REALM tour:VIDEO

Vanessa Arundale

The Walcha Farmers' Market is held in McHattan Park on the third Saturday of the month during spring and summer

Farmers’ market this Saturday is a festival highlight

Walcha Rotarian Andrew Corlette said everyone from near and far is invited.

Walcha Rotary hosts a drought break

Vanessa Arundale

Ladies who lunch - the 2017 Walcha Town and Country ladies' lunch at Boree

Time to RSVP for Town and Country Club lunch

Vanessa Arundale

PLAY BASED PROGRAM: The centre is open five days a week. Its outdoor environment focuses on engaging children with the natural environment.

Community based and affordable care

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PLAY BASED PROGRAM: The centre is open five days a week. Its outdoor environment focuses on engaging children with the natural environment.

Community based and affordable care

Travel beyond the border

Half the starring cast of Friends, the hit television show that epitomised 1990s style. Photo: Shutterstock

90s style, reborn | Trending

Linley Wilkie

Stunning home in a prime location

Well fenced property in a good location

Hartland has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a separate garage-studio. Inset: Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett makes $1.2 million return to Southern Highlands

Lucy Macken

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

Vanessa Arundale

Slice of history: The panel added to the monument in the Walcha War Memorial Park after the end of World War II.

Call for more to war

Bob Walsh

The fatal flight: Lost lives of the Lutana

Simon Bourke

The 2018 Book Week Parade at Walcha Central is a colourful fancy-dress feast: mega gallery

CHAMPION: Olympian Cecil Healy died in battle. Picture: AWM P04366.007

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

GRAND DESIGNS: Australian engineers rebuild a crossing over the Somme swamps near Cléry on September 2, 1918, to keep communications open and transport moving after the capture of Péronne. Picture: AWM E03143

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Walcha comes together as the $10million collected for 2018 Drought Relief begins to be distributed: PHOTOS

NOT SO EASY RIDER: Paul Jessop with his Scrapheap Adventure bike enroute to Pooncarie. He said he enjoyed stopping in small towns on the way to spend money with local businesses doing it tough in the drought.

Saved from the scrap heap for charity: VIDEO

The Walcha Council Waste Water team: Tess Dawson, senior manager – water, sewer & waste, Sean Perkins, project officer and Dylan Reeves, director of engineering standing in front of the renovated tertiary treatment pond and the newly installed pond.

Working on our waste water: VIDEO

Ladies who lunch enjoy the day at Ivybank: PHOTOS

Turning to history for the 2018 kid’s games

Vanessa Arundale

Picture: Chelsea Sutton

All the action from the 2018 Deni Ute Muster

Annie Lewis

Superintendent Scott Tanner leads his troops into Christ Uniting Church in Tenterfield for the 2018 Police Remembrance Day service,.

Police gather in Tenterfield to remember fallen colleagues | VIDEO

Donna Ward

Schools out – forever

Vanessa Arundale

Peter Fenwicke is one of two suggestions for the Walcha sporting oval

This legendary brother was a sports achiever all-round: Letter to the editor

Col King

SPOTLIGHT: Failings of the aged care industry will come under scrutiny from a Royal Commission.

Advocacy groups applaud aged care Royal Commission news

Eileen Wood

Simply stunned: Michael Palin said he feels "incredibly lucky" to have had such a diverse career, from Monty Python to travelling the world. Photo: John Swannell

Michael Palin: Always look on the bright side of life

Samara Ross

COMMONPLACE: Close to one million colonoscopies are carried out each year.

Colonoscopy stories wanted

Samara Ross

Greyhound racing will receive a $4 million boost if Victoria's Labor government is returned.

Vic greyhound racing gets $4m if Labor win

Serial rapist and murderer David Birnie is considered one of WA's most heinous criminals.

Worst WA killers to remain behind bars

Laura Woodley, 23, gets to have a personal chat with Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, on the Royals tour to Mountain View Farm near Wongarbon. Meghan was ready for some farm help and put out some cottonseed for the cattle and knew about soil moisture issues. She later gave the Woodleys a personally baked banana bread loaf. "We always take a plate when we're visiting," Meghan said of the Markle US tradition. Photo by Rachael Webb.

The Royals go down to the farm with the Woodleys at Wongarbon

Tas parliament media rules slammed

Report urges industrial manslaughter laws

Matt Coughlan

Sacked Guthrie taking ABC to court

Marnie Banger

Labor MP's election hopes 'in the air'

Karen Sweeney

The NSW government is experiencing a backlash over plans permit flooding in a world heritage area.

Backlash over NSW govt dam wall plan

Dominica Sanda

The Blanc Delice at The Westin Sydney is almost too beautiful to touch.

Diner en Blanc’s stylish collaboration with Marriott

Enjoy a little weightlessness in one of three pools at Barceló Illetas Albatros

Taking a babymoon fit for royalty

There are some truly frightful destinations for adrenalin junky travellers.

Five haunted islands to visit this Halloween...if you dare

Lucky she's outside: Right now, over three billion people are absorbing the equivalent pollution to smoking two cigarette packets every day, because they have no electricity and no option but to cook inside poorly ventilated dwellings using materials such as animal dung for fuel.

Ask Noel: A solution to pollution

Noel Whittaker

Visit www.sydneyfishmarket.com.au/seafood-school/about-sss for more great seafood recipes and cooking tips, advice on purchasing and storing seafood, species information and answers to frequently asked seafood questions.

Try this: Seared chermoula yellowtail kingfish with moroccan salad

McCormack open to supermarket commission

Daniel McCulloch