Yass news, sport and weather

Michael, Finn, Bee, Heather and Willow Dunne (Ireland) with Yass Valley mayor Rowena Abbey.

New citizens 'really excited' to call Australia home

Hannah Sparks
1hr ago

New Book: Author Mark Filmer's new book, Three Steel Teeth: Wide Comb Shears and Woolshed Wars, is published by Ginninderra Press.

The war in the woolsheds

David Cole

Don't forget the bus rules

Chief Insp John Sheehan

What's on in Yass

Buskers just down from Priceline Pharmacy Yass.

PHOTOS
Hundreds travel to Yass for the second Irish and Celtic Music Festival

Hannah Sparks

UPDATED
Bushfires yesterday, snow today across the Southern Tablelands

Hannah Sparks and Louise Thrower

TOP WINES: A steward pours shiraz wines for judges at the Australian Cool Climate Wine Show held in Murrumbateman. Photo: Hannah Sparks

Canberra wines win top trophies at Cool Climate Wine Show 2019

Hannah Sparks

New citizens 'really excited' to call Australia home

Hannah Sparks
1hr ago

The war in the woolsheds

David Cole

THE RINGER: AKA Good Fruit and Vegetables editor Ashley Walmsley.

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

The Murrumbateman Little Athletics Club's registration day was a big success thanks to those involved including Terry Tilyard and Kris Butler at the BBQ, Photo supplied.

Little A's club to begin in Murrumbateman. Get involved

Burney Wong

Magpies take title at last with a strong win over the Valley Dragons

Burney Wong

Winner: Nine-year-old Angus Kelly holding his NSW South West Champion of Champions tennis tournament. Photo: Maree Kelly.

Binalong has a nine-year-old star. His name is Angus Kelly

Burney Wong

Little A's club to begin in Murrumbateman. Get involved

Winners: The Yass Public School tennis team were crowned Yass's Team of the Year and was represented by Liana Deery. Photo: supplied.

Council gives award to Yass Public School Tennis team

Burney Wong

United: The Yass Lady Redbacks gave it their all, but were not able to overcome a strong Monaro Panthers Black side. Photo: supplied.

Lady Redbacks come close to title, but no cigar

Burney Wong

Gold Trails Reenactments Group as bushrangers at Old Bowning Town.

What's on: Bushrangers, Bowning Hill Climb and Foodies Night Markets

Legumes such as subterranean clover are important to pasture systems, but they must be well nodulated in order to fix nitogen in the soil.

LLS asks producers, how well do you know your nodules?

Newsroom

What's on in Yass

What's on: Bushrangers, Bowning Hill Climb and Foodies Night Markets

GLOVES UP: Bec Sandridge fought through a relationship breakdown, social anxiety and self-doubt to record her debut album Try + Save Me out on October 4.

MUSIC
Bec Sandridge pulls no punches on her debut album

Josh Leeson

TRADITIONAL GRAFFITI: Formerly The Wheeze & Suck Band, are one of more than 100 artists playing at the festival. Photo: supplied by the band

WHAT'S ON
Top 5 events to catch at the Irish and Celtic Music Festival this weekend

Hannah Sparks

New role: Sue Corcoran, chair of Boorowa Community Bank® Branch of Bendigo Bank, welcoming new business development manager Darren Manton. Photo: Supplied.

New business development manager appointed

Raising the standard of managers and leaders to create a better society

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INPUT: What do you have to say about living and working in regional Australia? Join the discussion at futurefocusproject.com.au.

Have your say on living in regional Australia

Joanne Crawford

New business development manager appointed

Does your car harbour a deadly secret? Keep your family and friends safe by urging them to check if their vehicles are affected by the Takata airbag recall.

Car makers call for a 'tap on the shoulder' for Takata

Sponsored content

Future Focus: building a stronger regional Australia

Joanne Crawford

Enjoy the perfect location

Southern Tablelands House of the Week, 19/9

Lenore, 719 acres up for auction

Southern Tablelands House of the Week, 12/9

Carrawarra House is going to auction

Southern Tablelands Domain

Don't forget the bus rules

Chief Insp John Sheehan

Police turn purple for diversity. Photo: Janie Barrett

Purple shirts for diversity

John Klepczarek

It's a new year for doing business

Bradley Davis

Don't forget the bus rules

BOM: Damaging winds are expected to lash the Southern Highlands. Photo: supplied.

BoM issues severe weather warning

Newsroom

What's on in Yass

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

Spring snow at Medlow Bath on September 17. Photo: Brigitte Grant Photography

Spring snowfall in Blue Mountains and beyond

Raising the standard of managers and leaders to create a better society

TEAM TAS: Pride in the jumper on show right here.

REAL AUSTRALIA
Team Tas: it's time to decide

A still from drone footage at Werri Beach by Christopher Joye.

Watch shark head straight for unaware surfer

Brendan Crabb

The dichotomy of the 21st century laid bare. Photo: Shutterstock

REAL AUSTRALIA
From robot dairy farms to Mother Nature exploding on your doorstep

NOTHING HERE: A kangaroo looking for food on farm land at drought-stricken Lightning Ridge. Picture: Rural Aid

Drought, dead cattle and a bleak forecast

Belinda-Jane Davis

ON SITE: Me, where Annette Deverell's remains were found in 1982 in the bush outside of Mandurah, WA.

REAL AUSTRALIA
My cold case crime podcast for forgotten victim

Carla Hildebrandt

Fingers on the pulse: Engineering students at the University of Newcastle.

OPINION
Automation and control is our future

Brett Ninness

Innocence robbed: Any good person - and even most of the bad - despises paedophilia.

OPINION
Breaking seal burns refuge of good sinners

Father Brendan Lee

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

See over a million spring flowering bulbs at Tesselaar Tulip Festival in Victoria, including tulips, daffodils, ranunculus and anemones.

Hello petal! Australia's must-see flower festivals

Geraldine Cardozo

FRIEND IN NEED: Alma's recognition of Tom's stroke symptoms helped to get him to hospital for a treatment in a timely fashion

Quick thinking Alma a stroke of luck for Tom

ART FORM: "I've stuck with pen, paper and paint," says Hairy Maclary creator Lynley Dodd, pictured here painting the cat Scarface Claw in her home studio in New Zealand.

Hairy Maclary creator Lynley Dodd's chaos theory

Geraldine Cardozo

ACCC chairman Rod Sims says he sees a lack of competition in the banking sector.

Watchdog sees lack of banking competition

11m ago

Queensland has lost its bid to be able to continue culling sharks on the Great Barrier Reef.

What ruling means for Qld shark program

15m ago

Olivia Newton-John was in the guest gallery watching Question Time in parliament on Wednesday.

Question Time in federal parliament

29m ago

Smoking will be banned in Melbourne's Bourke Street mall from next month.

Melbourne mall smokers told to butt out

29m ago

Thomas Ellis with the partially repaired driveway of a Dumeresq Island property. It would cost him $44,000. Photo: Scott Calvin.

Shysters sting: driveway repair scam catches 82yo

Rob Douglas
32m ago

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews' salary will grow by 11.8 per cent to $422,562 by mid-2020.

Victoria premier accepts generous pay rise

Marnie Banger
37m ago

A wheelchair-bound man is on trial accused of the attempted murder of his ex-partner's new lover.

SA tetraplegic 'had no motive' to murder

Kathryn Bermingham
47m ago

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has a good personal relationship with Donald Trump.

Australia pulls its weight with US: PM

Katina Curtis, AAP Senior Political Writer
58m ago

Rick Power, Landmark sheep consultant to Cottage Park, with Yarrawonga's Sam Phillips, buyers Jody and Mark Pendergast of Cottage Park, Cooma, and Steve Phillips, Yarrawonga, with the top priced ram worth $22,000.

Yarrawonga top $22,000

Stephen Burns
2hrs ago

The steep sandstone escarpment surrounding the Bylong Valley provides a dramatic setting for the latest land use conflict to flare over a coal mine in NSW.

'Intergenerational inequity': Bylong coal mine dead and buried

Mike Foley
2hrs ago

David and Gerald Hicks with their Spin-a-Calf equipment which was highly commended in the Henty Machine of the Year awards.

Spin-a-calf makes marking calves a one man job

Olivia Calver

Get in early: The ACCC inquiry found foreign cash is more expensive at airport locations than at other locations. When buying USD200 in February 2019, consumers could have saved AUD40 by purchasing from the cheapest supplier at a non-airport location, compared with the most expensive supplier at the airport.

Australians paying millions too much for foreign currency services: ACCC

FASCINATING: The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum is known for exhibiting specimens from every major stage of life on Earth.

A weekend at the museum

Andrew Lotherington

Master reef guide Pablo Cogollos takes passenger on Sunlover Reef Cruises on a snorkelling tour. Picture: Calypso Reef Imagery

Discover the reef with a master guide

10 clever household hacks using bicarb soda

Podium finish: Coach your girls to gold-medal performance in terms of health, wellbeing and egg-laying.

Help your chooks put in a prize-winning performance

Diagnosing endometriosis can be challenging

HealthShare

PHOTOSHundreds travel to Yass for the second Irish and Celtic Music Festival

UPDATEDBushfires yesterday, snow today across the Southern Tablelands

REAL AUSTRALIAFarmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

MUSICBec Sandridge pulls no punches on her debut album

WHAT'S ONTop 5 events to catch at the Irish and Celtic Music Festival this weekend

REAL AUSTRALIAFarmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

REAL AUSTRALIATeam Tas: it's time to decide

REAL AUSTRALIAFrom robot dairy farms to Mother Nature exploding on your doorstep

REAL AUSTRALIAMy cold case crime podcast for forgotten victim

OPINIONAutomation and control is our future

OPINIONBreaking seal burns refuge of good sinners

REAL AUSTRALIAFarmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

PHOTOS
Hundreds travel to Yass for the second Irish and Celtic Music Festival

UPDATED
Bushfires yesterday, snow today across the Southern Tablelands

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

MUSIC
Bec Sandridge pulls no punches on her debut album

WHAT'S ON
Top 5 events to catch at the Irish and Celtic Music Festival this weekend

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought

REAL AUSTRALIA
Team Tas: it's time to decide

REAL AUSTRALIA
From robot dairy farms to Mother Nature exploding on your doorstep

REAL AUSTRALIA
My cold case crime podcast for forgotten victim

OPINION
Automation and control is our future

OPINION
Breaking seal burns refuge of good sinners

REAL AUSTRALIA
Farmers' take on the fake and flowers bloom despite the drought