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Players wanted for Knockout

MENINDEE Yabbies Rugby League is still looking for teams to compete in the Menindee Rugby League Knockout, which the Yabbies will be hosting at Burke and Wills Oval, Menindee, on Saturday, October 11. Broken Hill is already fielding one team – the...

29 Aug 2025

News

Goodbye, Alice

A TOUCHING ceremony occurred last week, for a girl Broken Hill and the world has lost. Alice Wilkinson was just 13, but of an intellect and worldliness that made her stand out from the crowd. It was a quality that came at an awful cost. In combat...

29 Aug 2025

News

Food, fuel and industry

CHANGED traffic conditions may affect Broken Hill residents who have engineering on their minds. The industrial belt at Kanandah Road will be upset until September 19 due to scheduled reconstruction works undertaken by Broken Hill City Council...

29 Aug 2025

Health

Good hearts wanted

BROKEN Hill Far West Local Health District is looking for volunteers to assist people who are nearing the end of their journeys. It’s a vital job for an important time of life, and local volunteer co-ordinator Janet Pearce said it’s more...

29 Aug 2025

News

Peak body wants cats out of sight

A CAT on a fence, or slinking along a rooftop at night, will be a vision consigned to history if the peak body for councils in New South Wales has its way. As reported last week in the Broken Hill Times, moves to regulate domestic cat ownership are...

29 Aug 2025

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When Broken Hill sizzles

THE heady aroma of hot pork will fill the air this weekend as Broken Hill celebrates International Bacon Day. One of the stranger days on the world calendar, International Bacon Day began in 2004 when a group of students from the University of...

29 Aug 2025

Sport

Club captain bags top spot

ON Sunday, August 24 the Silver City and National Servicemen’s Rifle Club conducted a Sandbaggers target shoot for service, sniper and tactical rifles at the 300 yard range. The day was mild and sunny and with little wind to bother the shooters it...

29 Aug 2025

News

Vale Donald Wills, RAAF, war hero

A BROKEN Hill war hero died last week at the age of 101. Flying Officer Donald McKenzie Wills, RAAF, was a rear gunner in the 463 Lancaster Squadron located at Waddington in the UK during World War II. He was born in Broken Hill on March 16, 1924, and...

29 Aug 2025

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Broken Hill Times - Friday, August 29

29 Aug 2025

News

Heritage grants for broken homes

OLD buildings in need of repair can get a new lease on life thanks to Broken Hill City Council’s Heritage Grants scheme. Owners of residential or commercial properties can apply for grants of up to $1500 and small loans of up to $3000 for verandah...

28 Aug 2025

News

Surviving swooping season

RESIDENTS are once again bracing for the annual magpie swooping season, as territorial birds across the city begin their springtime assault on humanity. With warmer weather triggering the breeding season, magpies have been sighted defending their...

28 Aug 2025

Sport

Final goes to Mildura

THE Newmarket Raceway hosted another exciting eight-race program last Sunday, August 24 with the feature race being the final of the Century 21 McLeod’s 1-4 win over the 375m for the chasers that qualified from the heats ran on August 17. The win...

28 Aug 2025