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Keating and Van combine for 4 ball victory

Keating and Van combine for 4 ball victory

Pat Walsh

FINALLY DID IT: Work And Chat crosses line first in Burrundulla Maiden Plate (1000 metres) at Bligh Picnic Races, Mudgee. Photo: Jay-Anna Mobbs

Blinkers key to quick jumping Nyngan runner's victory at Bligh Races

Jay-Anna Mobbs

Tigers are swooped at home in round eight clash

Tigers are swooped at home in round eight clash

Zaarkacha Marlan

Keating and Van combine for 4 ball victory

Keating and Van combine for 4 ball victory

WORKING: Group 11 representative Loma Atuau and the Nyngan Tigers have gone four rounds without a win. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

Best is yet to come from Tigers despite 'everything' needing work

Nick Guthrie

'Stale' feeling after Cubby boots Tigers to a share of the points

'Stale' feeling after Cubby boots Tigers to a share of the points

Nick Guthrie
Zaarkacha Marlan

Having a good time at the Carers morning tea in 2018.

Carers and friends to take a break at morning tea

Zaarkacha Marlan

GEARED UP: Deputy Captain Adam Bourke and retained firefighters Aaron Bennett and Jordan Lane will be taking part in the challenge on November 9. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

Local firies prepare to climb 1504 steps for a good cause

Zaarkacha Marlan

COMMITTEE: Bruce and Viv Cleaver, Ange Kennedy, Sophie Greig, Rowen Cleaver, Emily Pitt and Michael Armstrong. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

Duck creek to make a splash for local charities

Zaarkacha Marlan

Having a good time at the Carers morning tea in 2018.

Carers and friends to take a break at morning tea

STAGING STORIES: Dick and Ruth Carney on stage at Dubbo. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

Stage play helping to heal the past to visit Nyngan

Zaarkacha Marlan

Nigel ‘Blisters’ Constable from Constable Hay Supplies having a well-earned break after a hard day at it.

Preparations are underway for Australia's Biggest Bogan festival

LIGHT FANTASTIC: Chase the Northern Lights or the Auroroa Borealis with The Senior and Travelrite on this Nordic cruise in February 2020.

Join us on Northern Lights cruise

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Ballarat man Lindsay, 69, has been delighted with the service Pennytel has delivered saying, "I won't go with anyone else 'cause I'm happy - you won't get better."

Old-fashioned service brings satisfaction with a smile

A program of non stop action for all

A program of non stop action for all

Andrew Lotherington

LIGHT FANTASTIC: Chase the Northern Lights or the Auroroa Borealis with The Senior and Travelrite on this Nordic cruise in February 2020.

Join us on Northern Lights cruise

SERVICE PLUS: When it comes to telephone companies, 80-year-old Ballarat man Donald cares primarily about two things, an affordable plan and good old fashioned customer service. Advertiser content for Pennytel.

A company that cares

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FCAI's chief executive Tony Weber is urging motorists to check their airbags even in older vehicles.

Faulty airbags have no respect for vehicle age

REAL ESATE: Looking to invest in the Central West? New data from Suburbanite shows where you should avoid. Photo: FILE

Looking to invest in the Central West? Here's where to avoid

Nadine Morton

DREAM AWAY: Central West’s most expensive homes in 2018 – in photos. Photos: DOMAIN

Central West’s most expensive homes in 2018 – in photos

Nadine Morton

HOUSE PRICES: The median home prices for your town revealed in the latest Domain report. Photo: FILE

Median home prices for your town revealed: How much did you pay?

Nadine Morton

Photo: FILE.

This is not a drill: It's take your dog to work day!

Grace Ryan

SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE: Jessica Perry was at the markets promoting essential oils. Photo: CONTRIBUTED

CWA market day raises money for Breast Cancer Foundation

BIRD'S EYE VIEW: The lunar module being tested in Earth orbit during Apollo 9. The gold-coloured material is a man-made polymer coated with aluminium. The probes dangling from the footpads were to sense the Moon’s surface during touchdown and signal the crew to shut off the descent engine. Pictures: NASA

A fragile chariot for a flight into history

Helen Sim

Photo: FILE.

This is not a drill: It's take your dog to work day!

Recognition: 2019 Australian of the Year Award recipients. Photo: Salty Dingo

Nominate an Australian of the Year

FOR RESEARCH: The Nyngan CWA held a market day on Saturday with something for everyone, to raise money for breast cancer research. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

CWA Market day for cancer research | photos

Zaarkacha Marlan

University of Melbourne Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden (left) with CERA's Dr Xavier Hadoux.

Simple eye test could soon detect early signs of Alzheimer's

Geraldine Cardozo

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Why aged care needs to change its position on residents' sex lives

Rowan Cowley

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

How Barry foiled the scammers, and you can too

Photo: FILE.

This is not a drill: It's take your dog to work day!

Australian captain Sam Kerr wrote a letter to her former coach Aaron Holt for saving her football career. Picture: Karleen Minney

Meet the man who saved Sam Kerr's football career

Cadaver dog Bryson found Noel Ingham's remains in the bushland at Dulverton.

He was his mate, his carer and ended up ... his murderer

FOR RESEARCH: The Nyngan CWA held a market day on Saturday with something for everyone, to raise money for breast cancer research. Photo: ZAARKACHA MARLAN

CWA Market day for cancer research | photos

Luxury: Merewether's The Beach House has been listed online as a luxury weekender with ocean views since December, 2016, but its path to development approval via the Land and Environment Court has been stormy.

Sex on the deck at beach rental has neighbours seeing red

Joanne McCarthy

Lake Eyre comes to life as the water floods into the desert

Lake Eyre comes to life as the water floods into the desert

Megan Dingwall

'Stale' feeling after Cubby boots Tigers to a share of the points

'Stale' feeling after Cubby boots Tigers to a share of the points

Nick Guthrie
Zaarkacha Marlan

DRIER DAYS: There is an 70-75 per cent chance the region will not exceed median rainfall levels. Image: BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY

'Unlikely' predictions when it comes to rainfall this winter season

Nadine Morton

Memo AFL: crowds will often behave as expected

OPINION
Memo AFL: crowds will often behave as expected

Father Brendan Lee

Water we waiting for?

Water we waiting for?

Jamieson Murphy

Picture: AAP Image/Sam Wundke

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Moment shows why we embrace sport

Justine McCullagh-Beasy

Laurent Hayez has pleaded for public to help find his son Theo who went missing in Byron Bay.

Headland still focus in search for Belgian

Owners of the cracked Mascot Towers will meet with officials and building experts on Thursday.

Cracked Syd tower's $1.1m bill detailed

Victoria has done what no other Australian state was willing to, says Andrew Denton.

Last-ditch warnings on Vic euthanasia laws

SA Treasurer Rob Lucas and Premier Steven Marshall delivered the 2019 state budget.

SA budget plunges state into more debt

Two men have faced court over the bashing of Assistant Commissioner Chris O'Neill.

Brothers in court over Vic police bashing

Caroline Schelle

John Setka has vowed a long battle if Anthony Albanese tries to expel him from the Labor party.

Victorian unions band together for Setka

Treasurer Jackie Trad claims Queensland's $15 billion LNG industry is powering Australia's exports

Qld lifts Aust to top three LNG exporters

Peter Hofmann was fatally bashed and stabbed while sleeping in a car in Sydney's east.

Murder trial hears of Sydney man's bashing

Margaret Scheikowski

Standing proudly in his crop of wheat: Alex Davies, Box Ridge, Coonabarabran is the inaugural Future Farmers Network Rabobank Farm Mangers Program Scholarship. Photo: supplied

Alex Davies is New Zealand bound

Christine and Greg Healey, Mt Bathurst Poll Dorsets, Black Springs, with their granddaughter Olivia Anderson and their daughter Monique O’Rourke. The family had a range of show rams, some of which will be offered for sale later in the year, some older sires and a selection of ewes on display. Mr Healey said they aimed to breed easy doing, commercially focused animals where progeny could be sold as either sucker lambs or grown on to heavier lambs.

Day two of Shearwell Australia Sheep Week | Photos

KAREN BAILEY and RACHAEL WEBB

Michael Peel, Peel Ridge Stud, Camden sold his pair of Grey Toulouse geese for a record-breaking $4250 to Thomas Spencer from Bullsbrook, Western Australia. Photo supplied.

Geese sell for $4250, a new Australian record

Olivia Calver

HOTSPOTS: Kangaroos accounted for 92.5 per cent of the top five most commonly hit animals on the road.Photo: SIMONE DE PEAK

What's that Skip? Roo collisions add to hotspot crash tally

Nadine Morton

THE MAN: Richard Boyce and Cruise Express has injected some $3 million into the coffers of various rail-restoration societies.

Riding the rails - the slow and steady way

John Rozentals

Compass Hut engages the five senses. Image: Kylie Bell

Planning your next holiday? Check out these deals

John Rozentals

Lisa Williamson and her daughter Bonnie competing.

Freak fall motivates mum and daughter to bodybuilding titles

Monique Patterson

TWILIGHT YEARS: Pets are considered senior from seven years of age and can have differing needs to that of their younger selves.

Growing old gracefully: how to care for your senior pet

UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Big W staff across the Central West are still in limbo three months after the retailer announced it would shut 30 stores. Photo: FILE

Staff still in limbo months after store closure announcement

Nadine Morton