Category: North West News

Tamworth Pound is urging locals to think twice before taking home a new furry friend. The shelter is seeing a surge of unwanted animals and believes the cost of living and Covid could both be to blame.

Winter coming to an end, but North West locals are being urged to not be complacent when it comes to COVID. One local GP is pleading with people who are sick to stay at home.

Looking for a new career? The Rural Fire Service is on the look out for new additions to its mitigation crew. The organisation needs more boots on the ground ahead of the next bushfire season.

A new health facility in Inverell officially opened its doors today, helping ease the pressure on the struggling local health system. But with the hospital still critically understaffed, there’s a long road before all its issues are fixed.

A new rule to ban Bali travellers from entering AgQuip’s gates won’t be policed, and will instead be based on honesty. One local dairy farmer says these measures aren’t enough in the battle to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of the country.

Liverpool Plains residents will have to wait even longer for reliable, clean water. The 32-million dollar “Quipolly water treatment project” was meant to be complete by July, but it’s facing major delays.

There’s concern tonight country doctors will leave rural cities in droves. G-Ps trained overseas were once required to spend time in the bush if they wanted to live in Australia – but that rule, is no more – after it was scrapped, this week, by the Albanese Government.

Tamworth Regional Council has released critical data, two years on from one of the region’s most devastating droughts. Mayor, Russell Webb, says the numbers will be used as evidence when addressing the Government on water security.

Nurses across the North West are calling for greater action from the State Government to address what they say is a staffing crisis. The union says, the situation is dire at Tamworth Base – with one ward struggling to fill more than a dozen positions.

It was a trip down memory lane in Tamworth today as the city held it’s 35th annual Antique Show. From trinkets… to vintage fashion… and wacky furniture… there was a piece of history for everyone to enjoy.