An important step in Jindabyne’s future has been taken with major contracts awarded for two key projects under the Snowy Mountains Special Activation Precinct.
After a relentless battle against unseasonably warm weather and limited natural snowfall, Perisher Ski Resort’s lifts spun for the final time this season on Friday 25 September.
Family members of former Coolringdon Station residents who perished in a house fire in 1886 gathered in May for the official unveiling of a plaque at the site of the tragedy.
The Jindabyne Op Shop and Alpine Uniting Church have officially wrapped up their volunteer run initiative that provided crucial support to seasonal workers facing financial hardship.
174 kilometres, an elevation gain for 9700 metres and 41 hours running and power walking are just some of the staggering numbers behind Cooma's Mick Sullivan latest Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB) world series victory.
The Monaro Equestrian Association awards night and annual general meeting has recognised the club’s top riders and volunteers for another year of hard work.
Snow Resorts Australia has officially launched #snowissnow, a new industry-wide initiative designed to improve public understanding of snowmaking and explain its critical role at Australia’s snow resorts.
Transport for NSW is urging motorists in the Snowy Mountains to drive to the conditions and to carry chains for all two-wheel drive vehicles following an increase in road incidents on alpine roads during the school holidays.
The Snowy Monaro is now home to one of the state’s best equipped and most impressive emergency hubs following the official opening of a new Rural Fire Service facility in Cooma.
The NSW Land and Environment Court has rejected an urgent injunction from pro-Brumby advocates, who are calling on the state government to stop its aerial culling of Snowy Mountains Brumbies.
The confirmed presence of the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu), recently detected in mainland Australia for the first time, has put Snowy Monaro backyard poultry keepers on alert.
Brumby advocates are continuing to call on the NSW Government to halt its aerial culling operations and put more efforts into using re-homers to reduce the numbers of Brumbies in Kosciuszko National Park.
While the NSW budget has not delivered any new infrastructure spending in the Snowy Monaro region, Member for Monaro Steve Whan believes the budget will benefit locals
We’ve probably all met an echidna, walking in the bush, or in our garden. And for most of us, that’s about all we know about these enigmatic creatures.
At its meeting on 14 April, the Cooma Monaro Progress Association (CMPA) has voted unanimously to withdraw all support for the proposed 'rail trail' on the Queanbeyan-Bombala rail corridor on the following grounds:
An informative display of the Monaro grassland earless dragon at the Cooma Visitor Centre was opened on Monday 7 September for National Biodiversity Month (across September) and Threatened Species Day.
For a second time Cooma's Paul McGufficke is shaving off his locks (and beard) for a good cause - on this occasion to raise money for the Monaro Prostate Cancer Support Group.
A recent community meeting in Bombala to address a growing concern of local farmland sales to corporate entities for carbon forestry projects (both environmental plantings and plantation forestry methods) featured forestry industry expert, Rob de Fegely.
