Fun Run was the top event of 2016

The Australia Day awards were held yesterday at the Cobar Memorial Swimming Pool with this year’s Australia Day ambassador and  charity worker Katryna Robinson helping to hand out the awards. The Rotary Club of Cobar was recognised with the Bossie Mitchell Service to the Community Australia Day award for their […]

There’s been a change of plans for this year’s local Australia Day celebrations with Cobar Shire Council announcing last week that charity worker Katryna Robinson is to be our new Australia Day ambassador. Council’s Tourism Manager Demi Smith said our previously announced Australia Day ambassador, Sober in the the Country […]

Cobar residents sweltered on Sunday afternoon after many homes and businesses were left without power for more than an hour. Storm activity in the area on Sunday afternoon just before 4pm included a number of lightning strikes, one of which hit Essential Energy’s power lines approximately 55km east of Cobar. […]