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Family and community remember an 'extraordinary' mate

Family and community remember an 'extraordinary' mate

THE AFTERMATH: The damage of a Gobbagombalin house in Wiveon Street that was completely destroyed by a fire on Thursday afternoon. Picture: Emma Hillier

Firefighters unable to save home engulfed by flames

GOOD CAUSE: Wagga's Maryim Yousefi, Helen Hallcroft and Janice Bates knitting kangaroo pouches at the library for wildlife affected by the bushfires. Picture: Les Smith

Knitters put needles and yarn to good use to help orphaned wildlife

Wagga councillor Vanessa Keenan.

Call for review of Wagga's response to recent bushfires

UPGRADES: Wagga council is closing Eunony Bridge for multimillion-dollar strengthening and widening works for six months. Picture: Les Smith

Bridge closure to send thousands of trucks, cars via city

Robert Richards became an apprentice millet broommaker straight after high school. Now, decades later he is a part owner of the venture.

Watch: Preserving the old world charm of millet brooms

Family and community remember an 'extraordinary' mate

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Bushfire-hit businesses face insurance delays and denials

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Olive hopeful as Tumut prepare for big meeting

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Vintage on despite administrator's involvement

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Brigadier says region resembles a 'war zone'

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Duck ready to rock in Cup heats at Junee

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LEADING CONTENDER: Brendan Ward will partner Contaminated in the inaugural Tumut Mile on Saturday. Picture: Jamila Toderas

Olive hopeful as Tumut prepare for big meeting

READY TO ROCK: Tegan Judd with Rockita as she prepares to line up in the Junee Pacers Cup heats on Saturday night. She has drawn barrier one in the second heat. Picture: Les Smith

Duck ready to rock in Cup heats at Junee

RECRUITMENT COUP: Matt and Harry Collins will return to Mangoplah-Cookardinia United-Eastlakes this year.

Coup for MCUE with Collins brothers to return

Tigers' premiership captain Nick Ryan has joined EWK in the Farrer League

PHOTOSOff-season signings: Footballers on the move for 2020

Fermanagh Lad

Fermanagh Lad to defend crown at Cowra

Matt Malone

SITTING OUT: Scott Hare in action for the Wagga Heat last season. The Heat won't play in this year's Waratah League. Picture: Les Smith

Heat must make sure they're not doused

Jon Tuxworth

Dylan Pietsch will return to the Australian sevens team for the World Series leg at Hamilton next week.

Pietsch back in Aussie side

Courtney

Lou Cox

Cox to be honoured at Rosehill race meeting

Matt Malone

Tourism Australia is attempting to attract visitors to parts of the country that have not been impacted by bushfires. Pictures: Shutterstock

Help tourism rise from the ashes

Michael Turtle
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The Barossa Valley - one of my favourite places.

The lovely and perplexing Barossa

John Rozentals

One of the stop-offs on the Great Vic Bike Ride 2019. Picture: Karleen Minney.

An exhilarating ocean-side ride

Karleen Minney

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GOOD CAUSE: Wagga's Maryim Yousefi, Helen Hallcroft and Janice Bates knitting kangaroo pouches at the library for wildlife affected by the bushfires. Picture: Les Smith

Knitters put needles and yarn to good use to help orphaned wildlife

Daina Oliver

Australian beach expert Brad Farmer reviewing Wagga Beach on Friday. Picture: Contributed

Brad Farmer named Wagga's Australia Day ambassador

Daina Oliver

MOVIE TREAT: Fraser Sharpe, Oliver Crawley and Findlay Clarke at the art gallery's pop-up cinema. Picture: Les Smith

Get the popcorn popping: Art gallery transforms into pop-up cinema

Daina Oliver

GOOD CAUSE: Wagga's Maryim Yousefi, Helen Hallcroft and Janice Bates knitting kangaroo pouches at the library for wildlife affected by the bushfires. Picture: Les Smith

Knitters put needles and yarn to good use to help orphaned wildlife

Haley Tait and Leisa Pearce are keen to make a difference through their Rewild Markets. Picture: Emma Hillier

WHAT'S ONRewild Markets help fire victims using yoga, food, recycling

Jessica McLaughlin

HISTORY IN ART: Andrew Sullivan's artwork can be enjoyed by adults and children. Picture: Contributed

WHAT'S ONWhat's On: Seven things to do this weekend in Wagga

Jessica McLaughlin

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Stockholm, Sweden.

Cruise the Baltic on a fully escorted tour

Emma Brown

The Wow factor of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Mediterranean

The Wow factor of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Mediterranean

Emma Brown

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Oia town on Santorini island, Greece. Get amongst the traditional and famous houses and churches with blue domes over the Caldera, Aegean sea.

Medieval cities of the Mediterranean

Emma Brown

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Emma Brown

House of the week: Your ideal family home | 3 Highfield Place Kooringal

House of the week: Your ideal family home | 3 Highfield Place Kooringal

Feature property: Stylish family living | 10 Cootamundra Boulevard

Feature property: Stylish family living | 10 Cootamundra Boulevard

Future uncertain for Jeanswest after voluntary administration announcement

Future uncertain for Jeanswest after voluntary administration announcement

ROLLING ALONG: A three-week marble championship kept local youngsters entertained.

Memories of a city's past

POPULAR PERSPECTIVE: Meredith Lake, author of The Bible in Australia: A Cultural History will be a guest at Wagga Wagga City Library.

New look at our love of 'good book'

Peter Casey

FLOODED: Gardiner Street, North Wagga in January 1891. The Black Swan Hotel is far left. Picture: CSURA RW3082

Wagga Wagga as it used to be

ROLLING ALONG: A three-week marble championship kept local youngsters entertained.

Memories of a city's past

FAMILY FUN: Circus Oz brings a host of silly arctic characters to the circus stage in Aurora. Picture: Rob Blackburn

The year of fun and wild imagination

Tracey Simond

THINK AHEAD: A simple strategy can mean the difference between life and death.

Plan to survive - an emergency bushfire guide for your pets

Lyndell Whyte

Robert Richards became an apprentice millet broommaker straight after high school. Now, decades later he is a part owner of the venture.

Watch: Preserving the old world charm of millet brooms

Allan Hull was honoured on track after the running of the Happy Retirement Allan Hull Pace at Riverina Paceway on Tuesday. Picture: Emma Hillier

Harpley sends Hull off with a salute

Pacific Islander workers return to Batlow to pick apples after being evacuated to Wagga during the Dunns Road Bushfire. Picture: Montague orchards.

Pacific Islander workers who fled bushfire return to Batlow orchard

ON PATROL: Fire and Rescue NSW country region senior instructor Scott Habgood and Dubbo Station Officer Simon Bracht with the Black Panther. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Black Panther sighting west of the Blue Mountains

Dave mangenner Gough

New Oz Day TV advert 'not reality'

Libby Bingham

Grass fire closes Gregadoo garbage tip outside Wagga

PHOTOSGrass fire closes Gregadoo garbage tip outside Wagga

Rex Martinich
Daina Oliver

The faces and the scenes of Australia's fire crisis. Photos: ACM staff, supplied.

REAL AUSTRALIAFrom ashen grief towards recovery, somehow

Shaving down straps of cowhide to be platted into stock whips.

Watch: The last of Australia's great stockwhip makers

Emma Horn

Ahhh: Winding down from the real world for a moment at the Tamworth Country Music Festival.

REAL AUSTRALIAForget the fires and the drought, for a few days anyway

Madeline Link

Upskilling: Minister for Industry, Science and Technology Karen Andrews is encouraging young women to consider all career options.

PM needs to switch TAFE back into top gear

A world hungry for performance art... voilà!

OPINIONA world hungry for performance art... voilà!

John Malouff

MULTI-LEVEL: The Smart Road vertical village will comprise 77 independent living apartments and community amenities, including a Montessori Early Learning Centre.

Vertical living: A smart idea for generations

Geraldine Cardozo

REUNITED: Valda Dawson (left) with cousin, and neighbour, Dorothy Wallis.

Cousins reunited after six decades

Geraldine Cardozo

JUST LOVING IT: See Aussie singing legend John Paul Young. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

JPY shares the love

Cheryl Field

The department running Parliament is open to a memorial display of a koala killed in NSW bushfires.

Parliament open to temporary koala showing

Video excerpts from Ciara Glennon's post-mortem have been played at Bradley Robert Edwards' trial.

Sacked scientist at Claremont post mortem

Victoria will get a weather reprieve on Friday before conditions deteriorate over the weekend.

Bushfire smoke to return to Melbourne

BALE-OUT: Farmer Phil Cook, centre, chats with Jane Smith and Greg Williams at last year's "mercy" delivery of hay. On Monday, an even bigger load will arrive at Mr Cook's property in the drought-stricken district.

Farmers to be 'baled out'

Amid a summer of bushfires, a look at the current state of play for water supplies across Australia.

Snapshot of Australia's water supply

Darren Kyle Hunter has been spared prison by WA District Court despite stealing from a bank account.

Former 'hero' spared jail over fraud in WA

Fallen firie David Harrison remembered as an 'extraordinary' mate

Fallen firie David Harrison remembered as an 'extraordinary' mate

Louise Thrower

The Coroner has invited family members of the Kehlets to provide her with testimony if they wish.

WA prospector's body had multiple injuries

BALE-OUT: Farmer Phil Cook, centre, chats with Jane Smith and Greg Williams at last year's "mercy" delivery of hay. On Monday, an even bigger load will arrive at Mr Cook's property in the drought-stricken district.

Farmers to be 'baled out'

Greg Mayfield

Picture: RURAL FIRE SERVICE

Fallen firefighter Samuel McPaul farewelled in Holbrook

Sophie Boyd

Mining magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest is considering purchasing a high-tech 3D printer to re-print the more than 50 Wytaliba homes destroyed in last year's deadly bushfire.

Iron baron to the rescue: Wytaliba could 3D print a new village

Andrew Messenger

HUMBLE: The A-HA! Studio house, at a modest 64.5m2, feels bigger inside because of of the clean, unfussy design, say owner-builders Jesse Zilm and Isabella James.

A-HA! What a great idea for a house

KITCHEN NIRVANA: Research shows that mental clarity, productivity and endorphins increase when you're living and working in an organised space.

Time to sort out your stuff

Must watch: Zellige style tiles celebrate their organic imperfections as opposed to covering them.

Have a sneak peek at 2020's tile trends