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1:00 AM | THE Wilderness Society has launched a scathing attack on Murray-Darling Basin irrigators, accusing them of using South Australia as a "salt dump".
1:00 AM | THE region's most iconic "bush bash" - Carrathool Races - made a spectacular return on Saturday after a three year hiatus.
1:00 AM | LOCAL parents remain divided over whether to slap an immediate ban on smacking kids following calls by the nation's top paediatricians to make the practice illegal.
1:00 AM | A GRIFFITH man who nearly ran down a police officer has launched an appeal against the severity of his jail sentence.
Labor calls for Piccoli's head
1:00 AM | A STATE government bungle that saw 740 disabled students stranded on the first day of school has sparked calls for Murrumbidgee MP Adrian Piccoli to be sacked as education minister.
1:00 AM | IT WAS a homecoming rich in symbolism and choked with emotion.
1:00 AM | AS THE region braces for the release of the future-defining Murray-Darling Basin plan, farmers are confronting a far more immediate enemy - rock-bottom commodity prices.
Ruff start becomes happy tail
03 Feb 12 | FROM death row doggie to princess pooch, Zabella the shih tzu is a canine Cinderella story. Just like Cinderella, Zabella had an unglamorous start to life, left for dead at Griffith Pound as a small puppy. With scruffy blonde curls and a mischievous nature, council rangers feared she may never find someone to love her.
We’re here to stay: Grocer
03 Feb 12 | GRIFFITH’S only independent grocer, Broomes, has thumbed its nose at the latest price war antics by the big two supermarkets, saying it is here to stay. Broomes owner Mick Macedone said the latest price war was undoubtedly designed to force the “little guys” out of the market but his family-owned store wasn’t going to back down.
03 Feb 12 | TWO TEENAGE boys – one only 14 – have been charged after allegedly assaulting a man with iron bars at his Barellan home this week. Police claim the 14 and 16-year-old boys went to a home at Mulga Road, Barellan, at about 9.30pm on Wednesday armed with iron bars when the incident occured.
03 Feb 12 | THE draft Murray-Darling Basin Plan consultation period reaches its halfway point today but the man responsible for its creation isn’t about to change his stance. Despite impassioned pleas at consultation meetings in Griffith and Deniliquin, Murray-Darling Basin Authority chairman Craig Knowles gave no indication there would be any changes to the draft before it became legislation.  | Wentworth scientists slammed by ... | Plan of attack
03 Feb 12 | CASHED-UP foreign investors are making a play for local farm land, with a Griffith irrigator confirming he has had several overseas offers for one of his properties. Local farmer John Ward is adamant he won’t sell land to overseas companies, despite having an urgent need to access funds through the sale of his 1890-hectare farm.
03 Feb 12 | MOBILE phones are now about as common as pencil cases inside the backpacks of Griffith schoolchildren, new research has found. Telstra’s Cyber-Safety survey revealed a record number of Riverina children are using the hi-tech tools, with four in five parents admitting they will send their kids to school this year with an internet-connected device.
Finding a job is hard for over 45s
01 Feb 12 | IF A man’s work is his identity, then Steve Davies feels invisible. Despite decades of experience in the banking and insurance industries, Mr Davies, 56, has been unable to find a job for more than a decade. He is part of a growing band of older job seekers in Griffith increasingly frustrated at being overlooked by employers.
01 Feb 12 | A LOCAL supplier has claimed an initiative by Coles Supermarkets to cut some of its fresh produce prices in half is just what farmers have been asking for. Industry leaders have labelled the new campaign, announced by the supermarket giant on Monday, as the fruit and vegetable version of the recent milk price wars.
Griffith asked to kick tin for Nikki
01 Feb 12 | IT’S the Aussie way to lend a hand when the chips are down. And that’s exactly what locals did on Australia Day when they flocked to a fundraising barbecue held at Johnson’s Tuckshop in support of local other Nikki Higgins.
Finger pointed at council for hill dump site
01 Feb 12 | SCENIC Hill has become a dumping ground for fridges, washing machines, barbecues and even a full chest of drawers – and local citizens say council is to blame. Council charges $23.50 for dumping a van, ute or box trailer load at its Tharbogang and Yenda landfills - a cost some locals believed was compelling residents to dump elsewhere.  | CommentsComments (2)
01 Feb 12 | THE region’s wine grape growers are facing another bleak harvest after the release of prices from a number of major wineries. The Wine Grapes Marketing Board (WGMB) has warned some of the varietal prices are under the cost of production and could spark a rash of foreclosures on local vineyards.
01 Feb 12 | IT WAS a big day for Griffith’s smallest students yesterday as kindy kids entered classrooms for the very first time. At St Patrick’s Primary School, smiles outnumbered tears as 70 children decked out in brand new uniforms said goodbye to anxious mums and dads.
New meaning to tradition
30 Jan 12 | WHEN Dorothy Palframan started at Griffith High School in 1938, she never dreamed that her great granddaughter would be walking through those very same doors 74 years later. But today, Nikita Sutton will have her first day at Griffith High, just like her mother, her grandmother and her great grandmother before her.
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