The 2025 Cliffhanger Off Road Event, which features tough winch courses, long navigation stages and fast creek runs for 4×4 racing, was held at Mt Gap Station north of Cobar last week. The event has been running for more than 20 years and attracts competitors from around Australia to test their vehicles and their four wheel driving skills in some very unforgiving terrain. Pictured is one of the teams competing in a winch challenge up a steep, rocky hill.
See this week’s edition for a report on how the local 50seven Automotive team went this year!
Cobar Shire Council will be taking part in the Far North West Electric Vehicle Trial over the next three weeks. A Kia EV5 Air Long Range SUV will be tested in local conditions to assess whether it and/or other electric vehicles (EVs) can meet the requirements of Council’s fleet. This […]
Cobar Little A’s Cobar Hot Bake Doughnut Award winners and Shell Auto Port Slushie winners from Monday night included: Tiny Tots Ryan Doherty and Billy Peters; Under 6s Marlee O’Sullivan and Zain Medlin; U7s Grace Mitchell and Halle Egan; U8s Jason Doherty and Colt Evans; U9s and U10s Rylie Mooney […]
Cobar Shire Councillors have voted in favour of demolishing the Cobar Town Hall with the view of redeveloping the site to enable future commercial opportunities within the CBD. The matter was discussed at Council’s Ordinary Meeting last Thursday following a report from Council’s general manager Peter Vlatko which recommended that […]