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HALT TO CUTS: Deputy Premier John Barilaro has announced Essential Energy job cuts will not move forward.

BREAKING
Regional jobs saved as Essential Energy cuts stopped in their tracks

Madeline Link
15m ago

Bella Caulfield 8 year old donating her hair to Variety

Bella's big hair chop

Jann Karp

Douglas Lennox OAM and Scott Sullivan RSL CEO

New England veterans gather for Vietnam Veterans' Day | See the photos

Jann Karp

Landholders can access drought assistance package at One-stop-shop at AgQuip

Landholders can access drought assistance package at One-stop-shop at AgQuip

Newsroom

Brent McLeod, Northern Tablelands Local Land Services Livestock Officer - Sheep

Find farming advice at the pub this Friday

Vanessa Arundale

Puppies enjoying students' company: Ella Crosby and Matilda Morse with one of the pups from the RSPCA branch, at The Armidale School.

Abandoned puppies cared for at school

Jann Karp

SPORTING LEGACY: Peter Fenwicke's sister Col King on Saturday with her nephews Murray, David, Jim and Geoffrey Fenwicke, AJ Cross, Eric Noakes and Andrew Crawford.

Peter Fenwicke Oval name officially instated

Vanessa Arundale

HALT TO CUTS: Deputy Premier John Barilaro has announced Essential Energy job cuts will not move forward.

BREAKING
Regional jobs saved as Essential Energy cuts stopped in their tracks

Madeline Link
15m ago

Bella Caulfield 8 year old donating her hair to Variety

Bella's big hair chop

Jann Karp

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

1953 New England first Grade Major Premiers with their coach Keith Cummins (centre back row) and captain Peter Fenwicke (centre front row)

Natural born leader

Graham Croker

Group 19 rugby league podcast: Grand finals and preliminaries

Group 19 rugby league podcast: Grand finals and preliminaries

Ellen Dunger

Local hero: Walcha sporting legend Peter Fenwicke has been honoured for his achievements.

Champion is immortalised

AJ Cross

1953 New England first Grade Major Premiers with their coach Keith Cummins (centre back row) and captain Peter Fenwicke (centre front row)

Natural born leader

Rams team from 1912

Jones reminisces on the 'best two years of my life' with the Rams

Ellen Dunger

Rams run rampant in Round 17

Rams run rampant in Round 17

Henry King

Brent McLeod, Northern Tablelands Local Land Services Livestock Officer - Sheep

Find farming advice at the pub this Friday

Vanessa Arundale

TALENTED: The 2019 UNESAP prize winners and runners-up in NERAM last Friday with museum director Rachael Parsons, UNE Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Todd Walker and judge Myf Gullifer

NERAM celebrates the skills of our students: mega gallery

Nicholas Fuller

42 rally cars are heading our way, although they're more likely to be kicking up dust than water this trip, in this part of the world.

Walcha revving up to raise funds for kids living with kidney disease

Newsroom

Brent McLeod, Northern Tablelands Local Land Services Livestock Officer - Sheep

Find farming advice at the pub this Friday

Niangala Primary School year 1 student Chaise Gibson's watercolour work 'Blue Dogs'

Walcha students to be included in 'Let's hang it!' exhibition

Newsroom

Douglas Bellamy

Learn about diabetes symptoms in Walcha this week

Vanessa Arundale

Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

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Water villas at the Maldives at sunrise. The islands of the Maldives are explored by boat, revealing pristine beaches and abundant wildlife.

A delightful Indian Ocean island cruise

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OUTLOOK: The ACM survey aims to find out more about what makes regional and rural communities tick.

Help us build a better understanding of regional Australia

Popular choice: Owning a mobile phone is a necessity for just about everyone these days, but did you know that there are 2.5 billion of us that use Android making it the world's most popular operating system.

How to find the perfect phone for you

SOMETHING TO TRUMPET: Everyone likes to look good in Cochin, India.

Cruise Singapore to Dubai next year

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CARING, SHARING: Rachel Rich, a former Kelly's Plains student, teaches the lower division class made up of pupils from kindergarten to year 6. The school has just invested in new iPads.

Week gives voice to students

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

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

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

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

TRESSES: Eli Spielvogel will shave his long locks to raise money for the Leukemia Foundation. Picture: supplied

Eli's close shave to give thanks for good health

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

Ready to rock: Star filly Libertini. Picture: Yarraman Park Stud.

Star filly Libertini readies for Winx Stakes Day return

Triumphing against the odds

REAL AUSTRALIA
Triumphing against the odds

On track: Trainer Clayton Harmey

Harmey's wait to be worthwhile at Newcastle

Peter Davis

Meme? Why are people so meme. Geddit?

REAL AUSTRALIA
Why are people so meme?

Rob Inglis

Crazy: A man races through the level crossing, right in the path of not one, but two trains. Picture: Transport for NSW

Watch the dangerous double cross in front of two NSW

Glen Humphries

'Good to have a dog in the backyard again': Sergeant Luke Warburton at home with T-Bone.

Life, near-death and man's best friend: Luke Warburton's story

Ilsa Cunningham

The complex world of donor conception

OPINION
The complex world of donor conception

Professor Fiona Kelly

Free speech controversies prove instructive

OPINION
Free speech controversies prove instructive

Zoë Wundenberg

Emergency or not? Well, it depends on where you live, it seems. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
Climate emergency or just rubbish?

James Joyce

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Kookaburras to Mr Whippy. What does Australia sound like to you?

Older Australians are among at-risk groups for sepsis.

It kills 5000 Aussies a year, but do you know the sepsis warning signs?

Eileen Wood

Building Bridges to Boorowa volunteer Dick Orchard takes a break from tree planting. Photo: Andrew Scott

Tree change: How one Orchard and an army of volunteers can make a difference

Geraldine Cardozo

Lawyer X helped police tape a conversation with Paul Dale before he was charged with murder.

Lawyer X still giving tips to cops in 2012

14m ago

The accused killer of Australian tourist Sean McKinnon has faced court in New Zealand.

Gun buy-back where Aust surfer was killed

15m ago

Danielle Lee is accused of glassing Neighbours actor Scott McGregor at a Gold Coast strip club.

Neighbours star assault trial for stripper

16m ago

Jacinda Ardern hasn't reacted to Alan Jones comments but did take a swipe at the Wallabies record.

NZ's Ardern takes Bledisloe dig at Jones

24m ago

One of pedophile Michael Guider's victims says he'll be a danger to the community if he's released.

Pedophile poses danger if let out: victim

Margaret Scheikowski
59m ago

Ganeshamoorthy Thiyagarajah fatally stabbed Mohammed Mansoor at Penfield Gardens in 2017.

Adelaide man jailed for 'savage' murder

1hr ago

Vincent Raymond Allen was helping police with robbery investigations when he disappeared in 1964.

Charge over 1964 Qld jewel heist murder

Nicholas McElroy
1hr ago

Hazardous surf warnings are in place for the coast between the Hunter and Victorian border.

Massive waves, winds set to hit NSW coast

1hr ago

Grand finalist, Judy Davie with PitchFest founder, Di Somerville and Chantal Abouchar.

All the photos from the Regional PitchFest Bootcamp

Olivia Calver
2hrs ago

A Right to Farm Bill will be introduced in NSW partly to stop animal vigilantes entering farms, with tougher trespass laws including possible jail time. Inset is two Northern NSW dairyfarmers who saw their biosecurity breached on farm by activists and another who had their details published online.

Jail for farm trespass, right to farm put into law

John Ellicott
2hrs ago

A minimum-till regime can save farmers against wind erosion with stubble retention through the summer fallow.

Minimum-till to stem terrible wind erosion in drought

John Ellicott

Nowhere epitomises the problems as much as Venice, which attracts 30 million tourists a year to its magnificent canals and bridges.

Top tourism spots crack down as they become victim of own success

Emma Batha, Thomson Reuters Foundation

Impressive: The view from Common Grounds and the historic wooden bridge across the Hunter.

Take time to mosey around Morpeth

John Rozentals

Two monks walk in the Sacred Garden at the heart of Lumbini. Pictures: Michael Turtle

The holiest site you've never heard of

Michael Turtle

New Life: Timothy and Ina moved from Brisbane to Lower Barrington to grow truffles. Picture: Scott Gelston.

Truffles lure treechangers to Tasmania

Libby Bingham

Consider the options: As far as a lifestyle enhancing procedure, cataract surgery is very safe and one of the most effective operations with a very high success rate. But there are risks.

Q: Do I need surgery for my cataracts?

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JOURNEY: Irena Romeo, 73, arrived at Lee Wharf aboard the Fairsea from Naples 70 years ago. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

From Italy to Australia, 70 years ago

Phoebe Moloney