2025

Community in mourning following mine tragedy

Cobar residents awoke yesterday morning to the devastating news that two workers had been killed in an accident at Endeavor Mine. According to the Police Media report, two people died following an underground explosion at Polymetals’ Endeavor Mine yesterday morning. Emergency services were called to the mine at about 3.45am […]

151025

LBV residents ready to hit the road

The Lilliane Brady Village retirement home residents and staff are ready to hit the road following the delivery of their new bus last week. The new Toyota Hiace 10 seater bus, which is part of Cobar Shire Council’s fleet of vehicles, was personally delivered to the Village last Thursday with […]

091025

Teen cadets shaped into soldiers

A group of eight cadets (from 13 to 17 years) and their Captain Colleen Boucher AAC from the Cobar Cadet Unit 221, joined 1,300 other cadets and 180 staff for seven days of training at Singleton Army Base last week. The annual training exercise included simulated weapons training, live firing, […]

091025

Tour de OROC welcomed to town

The first peloton of the Tour de OROC 2025 group of riders arrived in Cobar yesterday just before 3pm and were greeted by locals, including the COOSH (Cobar Outside of School Hours Care) kids at Drummond Park. The cyclists rode 130km from Nyngan to Cobar yesterday as part of their […]