Cobar Festival of The Miner’s Ghost

Local punters, horse owners and trainer Wayne ‘Wap’ Prisk all had a brilliant day at the Cobar Picnic Races meeting on Saturday at the Dalton Park Racecourse. Prisk’s stable celebrated three wins for the day, including Dancing In The Sky winning the DJW and Wells Ventilation Cobar Picnic Cup. It […]

The Australian Workers Union (AWU) and Mining and Energy Union (MEU) have joined forces and launched a new Mining Union Alliance representing workers in metalliferous mining in NSW on Tuesday in Cobar. The NSW Mine Workers’ Alliance (NSWMWA) launch was the first of a number of regional events that are […]

Cobar has welcomed 7,700 visitors to the Visitor Information Centre and the Great Cobar Museum in the first five months of this year. Cobar Shire Council’s tourism manager, Demi Smith said that figure is down slightly on last year’s total visitor figures from January to May 2023 of 8,487, but […]