In a first for the region, the four senior rugby union teams - the Cooma Red Devils, Cooma Devils Angels, Jindabyne Bushpigs and Jindabyne Miss Piggies will feature in finals rugby.
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.
Cooma residents are being assured by Australia Post that mail delivery times are within an ‘expected timeframe’ since the Cooma Post Office was re-located to Centennial Plaza in Sharp Street.
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 generous staff and management of Woolworths Supermarket in Cooma have assisted the Monaro Committee for Cancer Research (mcCr) committee in its efforts to create a new cancer unit in Cooma.
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.
Snowy Monaro health service staff were among those who received recognition as part of this year’s Southern NSW Local Health District annual Excellence Awards.
There have been many thrilling rugby matches played at Rotary Oval over the last 60 years, but few would surpass Saturday’s local derby clash between the Cooma Red Devils and Jindabyne Bushpigs.
The Fred Hollows Foundation’s national fitness challenge returns for its seventh year in August, bringing Australians together to move, fundraise and help restore sight.
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
Snowy Hydro chief executive officer, Dennis Barnes, has told a Senate Estimates committee he expects Snowy 2.0 principal contractor, Future Generation Joint Venture, to deliver its revised costs for finishing the project by the end of June.
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:
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.
Since Nimmitabel resident, Shandelle Miller, was diagnosed with a rare stage four low grade serous ovarian cancer she, and her family, have had their whole world turned upside down.
