A source close to the Snowy 2.0 project believes issues with tunnel boring machine Monica, the project’s fourth TBM, raises serious questions about the machine’s performance.
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.
Nurses from Cooma Hospital’s Emergency Department recently strengthened their skills in caring for critically unwell patients through Southern’s Resus Room Ready Program.
The Bombala community has thrown its support behind a new oncology unit in Cooma with more than $3000 raised to support the Monaro Committee for Cancer Research’s push for the new facility.
The Jindabyne Lions Club’s popular Easter Art Show and Sale will proceed in 2027 after the club secured important funding in the latest round of the Boco Rock Community Enhancement Fund grant allocations.
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.
The 32nd Kangaroo Hoppet was held at Falls Creek last week in beautiful winter conditions, with warm temperatures, sunshine and a fast, firm track greeting competitors for the start of Australia’s premier cross-country ski marathon.
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.
A try in the final minutes to Cooma Stallions five-eight, Thomas King, has kept reserve grade in the premiership hunt following a tight 18-14 win over the Bega Roosters.
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:
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.
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.
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.
