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Grant recipients announced

SINCE 2013, Foundation Broken Hill have offered training grants of $1000 to assist career opportunities for school leavers, students, those working casually or part time, job seekers and those considering a career change or who demonstrate...

13 Jun 2025
Community

Awards spotlight volunteers

MARGOT White has been inducted into the Nydia Edes Hall of Fame at the recent Volunteer Awards. In something of a full circle transformation, Mrs White has worked for Broken Hill since her earliest years assisting her mother Nydia Edes. Now 92 years...

13 Jun 2025
Community

What’s On

Free Coffee Friday Tramway Cafe, Westside Plaza Twenty free coffees every hour from 8am to celebrate the opening of the Tramway Cafe!Scary-Oke 8pm, The Tipsy Camel Frighteningly Fabulous Scary-oke presented by Amanda Screetly in celebration of...

12 Jun 2025
Community

Sliding in for Big Freeze support

OVER 20 locals braved freezing conditions to take part in the Regional Aquatic Centre’s Big Freeze slide on Monday. The DIY event was held with “celebrity sliders” and was part of the fundraising efforts for the fight against Motor Neurone...

12 Jun 2025
News

Training grants awarded

FOUNDATION Broken Hill has announced which local students will be receiving funds from its extended 2025 Training Grant program. The program aims to help students pursuing study in disciplines critical to the Broken Hill community, with grants open...

08 Jun 2025
Community

Power company cash for new scooters

THE Y’s Men Club Broken Hill, with help from one of Transgrid’s Community Partnerships Program grant funding, have bought three new mobility scooters for the community. Transgrid’s CPP funding project is accessible for communities...

06 Jun 2025
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Health

Maari Ma centre for Menindee

A NEW multipurpose child and family centre focused on health, wellbeing and early childhood development, is set to be built in Menindee as part of a grant received by Maari Ma Health Aboriginal Corporation. CEO of Maari Ma, Richard Weston, said the...

06 Jun 2025
Community

Thousands raised for bush chapel

THE Combined Christian Church Group donated $10,000 to Landcare Broken Hill this week, to be put towards building an outdoor chapel at the Imperial Lakes Nature Reserve. Money was raised through raffle ticket sales for a one-off artwork by local...

06 Jun 2025
Community

Morning tea for cancer rises in popularity

LAST week the Broken Hill Musicians Club hosted its first ever Biggest Morning Tea, raising money for the Cancer Council and blowing the fundraising target out of the water. The tea, held last Friday, May 30, at the club included an array of...

05 Jun 2025
Sport

Hash House Harriers

WHAT a beautiful night for a stroll around town last Wednesday from the Workies, with our hare Smilling Stiff for run 2398. After about 45 minutes, we all arrived back at the Workies for a well earned drink or two. When the GM called...

05 Jun 2025
Arts & Entertainment

What’s On

TODAYWelcome Table4.30pm, The Junction Hotel Function RoomPULL up a chair at the weekly Welcome Table to share a chat and a drink with new and established residents. TOMORROWLive Music: Nicole Matthews8.30pm, Broken Hill Musicians ClubLive Music...

05 Jun 2025
Community

Harriers set to hash it out

LOOKS like we doing run 2394 again this week but from a different address, 300 Patton Street, where I lived many moons ago with our hares Hook and Sticks. After a stroll around the south, we arrived back to where the cold drinks were and...

05 Jun 2025
Community

Hash House Harriers

ON Wednesday, May 15 we gathered at 47 Morgan Street with our hares Pixie-Anne Ang Fang. At 6pm, he called hash hush and off we went; some didn’t go; some had a short walk (me); and most had a long walk. When they all got back, the...

05 Jun 2025
News

Umberumberka holds history

A CRITICAL water supply, creation of a small settlement and oasis in the outback, the Umberumberka Reservoir is steeped in history. The project for the reservoir began in 1911 and employed up to 500 men over a period of four years during...

02 Jun 2025
Community

Dedicated volunteer ‘Legend of Tongs’

LOCAL volunteer Leanne Bird from the South Broken Hill Football Club has been recognised as a “Legend of the Tongs” - and is in the running to win $25,000 in products - in a national initiative run by Bunnings in partnership with...

01 Jun 2025
Football

Girls AFL competition kicks off

A TRIAL to start an under 14 girls AFL competition in 2026 kicks off on Wednesday at 4pm, with plans to run for the next four weeks before the Primary Schools PSSA Girls AFL Gala Day on July 2. AFL Broken Hill development officer David Bearman said...

30 May 2025
Community

Biggest turn out yet for reconciliation march

NATIONAL Reconciliation Week has begun for 2025, with the Broken Hill City Council holding a local event on Wednesday, May 28, at Sturt Park. This year’s theme is ‘Bridging Now to Next’, which represents ongoing connections between past, present and...

30 May 2025