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Tenterfield Hospital's Jasmine Springborg, Dr Siribaddana, Stacey Butler, Norma Rhodes and Kimberley Druitt are in the Christmas spirit.

Hospital always open over the silly season

Donna Ward

Sanuki and Resandi Wijesekara with elf Jasmine Finnerty.

Rain puts carols undercover

Donna Ward

Beware the wonky hay bale in the show's Farmers Challenge.

Farming skills as a team sport

Donna Ward

Welcome to my garden: This year's TSHPMPS leaders (at back) Jayden, Jed and Piper, and (at front) Charlie and Aamily will remember their role in establishing the new native garden and bush tucker trail for many years to come.

How does our garden grow? With a little help from our friends

Donna Ward

Tenterfield Shire Council ranger Leah Osborne with Davis the greyhound after his extended stay came to a conclusion when he was reunited with owner Hamish Creaser.

Six weeks in the council pound no hardship for spoilt greyhound

Donna Ward

Gorgeous little Tommy Johnston has been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C, otherwise known as childhood Alzheimer's, for which there is no treatment or cure.

Dire prognosis galvanises local family to seek answers

Donna Ward

Tommy had plenty of help to blow out his single candle on Thursday.

All the colours of the rainbow for one special trooper

Donna Ward

Tenterfield Hospital's Jasmine Springborg, Dr Siribaddana, Stacey Butler, Norma Rhodes and Kimberley Druitt are in the Christmas spirit.

Hospital always open over the silly season

Donna Ward

Sanuki and Resandi Wijesekara with elf Jasmine Finnerty.

Rain puts carols undercover

Donna Ward

Sanuki and Resandi Wijesekara with elf Jasmine Finnerty.

Rain puts carols undercover

Pinkett's Jodie Saggers on Eb's Oak

Locals turn out for the annual Red Range campdraft | Photos

Ellen Dunger

Group 19 name women’s team for Greater Northern Championships

Ellen Dunger

PUT THROUGH THEIR PACES: The Group 19 wider representative women's squad training in Inverell.

Group 19 to narrow down squad for Greater Northern Championships

Ellen Dunger

Pinkett's Jodie Saggers on Eb's Oak

Locals turn out for the annual Red Range campdraft | Photos

Glen Innes president Ian Pringle and Tenterfield captain Bryce Titcume.

Tenterfield defeat Glen Innes to win the Col Davidson Trophy

The Deepwater racecourse will be home to a new venture.

New sporting club set to call Deepwater racecourse home

Sports desk

What’s on in Tenterfield this December

Santa's arrival is a highlight of any Christmas Carnival, as little Ahria Brown discovered last year.

Christmas carnival in the park on Thursday

What’s on in Tenterfield

What’s on in Tenterfield this December

Tenterfield offered “A Taste of Irish Christmas”

Newsroom

The Woodenbong Yowie and Christmas Elf are colluding for a fun market this Saturday at Woodenbong. Photo by Joyce Marsh.

Yowies and Christmas elves on the roam at Woodenbong markets

Joyce Marsh

Sarah Mostyn, of Windella Farms

Five small businesses making their dreams come true

Emma Elsworthy

Rebecca Stern, of Mustard Made.

Savvy business mums are doin' it for themselves in regional Australia

Emma Elsworthy

Aloha Zen’s Byron Bay Pillow, $107.00

Unique gift ideas for the hard-to-buy-guy in your life

Emma Elsworthy

Sarah Mostyn, of Windella Farms

Five small businesses making their dreams come true

The Small Folk’s founders Anna and Simon Davis say their roles as early childhood educators helped guide their vision to create "enchanting, holistic play, celebrating a naturally simplified childhood".

Why a labour of love makes all the difference in regional Australia

Emma Elsworthy

Amber Drop Honey (500 grams), $10.50

Christmas Gift Guide: 15 of the hottest pressies UNDER $50

House of the week: Flowing, stylish interiors in Oxley Vale

Style, location and space

House of the Week: Double brick home in the heart of Tamworth

Walcha Rural Women's Gathering organising committee members: Chloe Hoy, Jane Morrison, Dale Webber, Anna Barwick, Karen Brown, Aurora Reilly and Don Murchie. Ms Webber is holding the ceremonial vase she brought back from Merimbula

Women to gather in New England in 2019

Vanessa Arundale

GLORY: Australia’s winning King’s Cup team, July 1919. Picture: AWM D00725

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

STAR POWER: The legendary Captain Albert Jacka VC, from Victoria was the face of recruitment campaigns and later, the 1919 Peace Bonds. Picture: AWM ARTV00784

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Walcha Rural Women's Gathering organising committee members: Chloe Hoy, Jane Morrison, Dale Webber, Anna Barwick, Karen Brown, Aurora Reilly and Don Murchie. Ms Webber is holding the ceremonial vase she brought back from Merimbula

Women to gather in New England in 2019

HOME FIRES: Sapper Arthur Findon Dunbar is welcomed home by his family at 45 Chief Street, Brompton, South Australia in July 1919. Picture: AWM P05328.001

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Long Beach: Pink Up events helps patients and nurses realise that they’re not alone, and nor is their family; there’s a whole community behind them.

Community spirit shines

Sanuki and Resandi Wijesekara with elf Jasmine Finnerty.

Rain puts carols undercover

Pinkett's Jodie Saggers on Eb's Oak

Locals turn out for the annual Red Range campdraft | Photos

Indian batsman Virat Kohli leaves the field at stumps on day two of the second Test.

15 facial expressions from the Perth Test

Welcome to my garden: This year's TSHPMPS leaders (at back) Jayden, Jed and Piper, and (at front) Charlie and Aamily will remember their role in establishing the new native garden and bush tucker trail for many years to come.

How does our garden grow? With a little help from our friends

Australian opening batsman Marcus Harris (right) and Aaron Finch.

Aussies start well in Second Test

Caitlin Petrie, Lottie and Lucia Burke, Phillipa Lyons, Logan Facer (who can't quite reach), Harry Butler, Patrick Pitkin, Max Baker and Bobby Facer were determined that Santa wouldn't miss the turn.

Light up the barbie, unwrap the salads and watch out for Santa | PHOTOS

Donna Ward

A herd of pigs targetted in the aerial shoot.

Aerial cull takes out nearly 5000 feral pigs

John Ellicott

Charlotte Bugeja was making the most of the occasion.

Lots to celebrate as service groups host great carnival | PHOTO GALLERY

Donna Ward

Prepare your kids to make their own way

Zoë Wundenberg

Christmas can be a season of sustainability

Heidi Edmonds

Stereotypes drive division on immigration

Charles Jacobs

PROSTATE: Research shows some men would prefer to sacrifice survival odds rather than suffer the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment.

Prostate cancer: men trade-off survival for quality of life

Eileen Wood

Labor accused of ‘milking’ self-funded retirees

HEALTH CONCERN: More older people are drinking to hazardous levels. Image Pixabay.

Boomers the new ‘risky’ drinkers

Eileen Wood

Labor's Tanya Plibersek is set to announce workplace changes to address the gender pay gap.

Labor promises gender pay gap changes

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Australian filmmaker James Ricketson used his trademark optimism to survive in a Cambodian prison.

Ricketson on surviving prison in Cambodia

Geoffrey Rush has rejected allegations made about his behaviour by fellow actor Yael Stone.

Rush denies inappropriate behaviour claims

One-year-old Bronx left at Tamworth Regional Pound with just a note. Photo: Tamworth Regional Pound

‘Please give me a chance, it’s Christmas’: note left with dumped dog

Named for it’s pink hue, Ruby chocolate is the result of a different style of cocoa bean processing unveiled in 2017.

How do you feel about pink chocolate?

Nicky Lefebvre

Ex-CFMEU boss Dave Hanna has been found guilty of deliberately destroying union documents.

Qld unionist free after destroying RC docs

Warren Barnsley

Bill Shorten survived a push from the Left faction at Labor's conference to soften border protection

Labor makes promises on refugees, Newstart

Angus Livingston and Matt Coughlan

NRL players Adam Elliott (left) and Asipeli Fine have pleaded guilty to wilful and obscene exposure.

NRL players sentenced for nudity offences

Laura Polson

PRIZE: Judy Gibson will have the chance to cruise on beautiful Lake Wakatipu on the TSS Earnslaw as part of the ultimate New Zealand tour.

NZ tour competition winner announced

Live Music at Empire Control Room

Five unmissable things to do, see and taste in Texas

The Brahmaputra River … in the rarely visited Indian state of Assam.

River-cruising the mysterious kingdom of Bhutan

John Rozentals

MUTED: Chalky hues will grow in popularity with green leading the charge, backed up by watermelon, subdued apricot and soft tans. Photo: Suzi Appel Photography

What will be trending in the new year

The people of the underworld: aboard a Collins class submarine

Nadine Morton

HMAS Dechaineux at sea. Photo: LEADING SEAMAN KAYE ADAMS 111618nmsub29

See what it’s like under the sea in a Collins class submarine

Nadine Morton