Breakfast barbecues, live entertainment, pool parties and awards ceremonies are the flavour of the day this Friday, January 26, with Inverell Shire Council and service clubs hosting free Australia Day events across the shire.

Mulitple tributes will be made in Delungra on Saturday when the traditional Remembrance Day service combines with commemorating a century since the district’s Honour Roll was unveiled and the 100th anniversary of the battle of Beersheba.

A radical change to the way our rates are calculated was on the agenda for local Lyn Hill during Wednesday’s council meeting.

Dryland cotton has long been grown in the North West, but has only ever been considered as a crop that is suited for the western parts of the region.

Sheep grazier Graeme Tonkin represents the latest generation in a century of his family’s farming in the Delungra district. At 59 he owns and operates “Vallyn” – an 1100 hectare property running around 3000 merino sheep, average micron 17.5, with New ...