ABC News • 14th December 2015

Southern Tablelands crime spate prompt calls for greater police presence

A recent spate of theft and crime in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands has prompted local residents to request greater police presence for the Yass Valley. On Sunday morning two men were arrested at a Yass service station following a lengthy police pursuit. The men, both aged 23, were charged with numerous offences, including shooting with intent to murder, aggravated break and enter, assault and resisting arrest. Gunning resident Claire Pearce told 666 ABC Canberra that locals in Gunni

MIEACT • 30th August 2018

No Labels Bullying Prevention Program

Brief: To obtain teenage perspectives and authentic feedback from students who participated in MIEACT's pilot program. No music request.

Scoop Yass Valley • 5th February 2016

Yass weighs into Aboriginal debate about national anthem

COMMUNITY: A local Aboriginal identity has weighed into the debate over Wagga Wagga’s Citizen of the Year refusing to stand for the national anthem on Australia Day. Cecilia Pavlovic, who identifies as Wiradjuri descendant and is a member of the Aboriginal community in Yass, sang the national anthem during Australia Day celebrations in Coronation Park, and has done so for several years. She respects Wagga Wagga mental health advocate Joe Williams’ choice to remain seated for the anthem, unlike

Scoop Yass Valley • 3rd March 2016

January deluge boosts summer rainfall statistics

YASS DISTRICT is set for another scorching week ahead with no signs yet that summer officially ended a week ago. Yesterday’s maximum reached 36 degrees and the heat is forecast to stick around for the rest of the week with maximums of 35 or 36 degrees, dropping just three degrees to 33 on Sunday. There will be little relief in the night either, with minimums between 14 and 17 degrees all week. What was a hot, dry weekend however, will develop into a humid midweek with a 40 per cent chance of

Scoop Yass Valley • 7th October 2015

Search for missing man suspended overnight

UPDATE: Search and rescue teams have tonight temporarily suspended their search for Yass farmer Leonard Watkinson, who went missing on Monday afternoon. They spent their third day today scouring five dams on the Manton property where Mr Watkinson went missing on Monday afternoon. There is still no sign of the 60 year-old. He was last seen by his partner at 10am Monday working near a dam on the Reardons Road property. She told police they made plans to have lunch together back at the house at

Scoop Yass Valley • 15th September 2015

Taylor won’t reveal his vote in leadership spill

POLITICS: Hume Liberal MP Angus Taylor won’t reveal who won his vote in the surprise leadership spill last night. He has been a strong ally of Mr Abbott in the past. Today, all he is saying is that the country needed to focus on governance and winning the next federal election. Prime Minister designate Malcolm Turnbull defeated Tony Abbott in a party room coup last night with 54 votes to 44. Julie Bishop retained her deputy leader position, but admitted the leadership spill had been “difficu

Scoop Yass Valley • 24th August 2018

Shots fired as armed offenders attempt hijack at Yass Service Centre

BREAKING: Yass police have shot at offenders who attempted to hijack another motorist at gunpoint at the Yass Caltex Service Centre during a pursuit. Two men were arrested at the scene and are in police custody. No one was hurt in the incident. Police were called to the Hume Highway at Gundagai at about 2am this morning following reports of a break and enter on a business. Police pursued the men in a four-wheel-drive ute to Yass. Police said a number of shots were fired from the offenders du

MIEACT • 30th August 2018

Volunteering ACT Awards

Brief: To promote a MIEACT volunteer nominated for the ACT's Volunteering Awards 2018, with a call to action for members of the public to vote for her in the People's Choice category. The video has since been amended to a "congratulations" film following Leanne's win.

Scoop Yass Valley • 19th August 2018

Binalong fire burns 35 hectares

BREAKING: Firefighters are currently attending a 35-hectare grass fire on Glengarry Road at Binalong. Its status is current out-of-control, but several Rural Fire Service units are close to bringing it under control and do not require any additional units, RFS zone manager Peter Alley told Scoop at 12.55pm today. It’s believed the fire has spread down into a gully and despite the strong winds, was not making much progress now, he said. “It’s still going, it’s running into a deep paddock, but

Scoop Yass Valley • 13th April 2016

Rallying for our railway

EXCLUSIVE: Yass Junction Railway will change to an unmanned station under a NSW TrainLink proposal to take advantage of increasing online bookings. Eleven coach and train stations across NSW will become unmanned stations, while another 20 will have significant staff cuts, it’s proposed. Yass Junction will lose its one daytime employee, while stations at Goulburn, Canberra, Wagga Wagga, Junee and Cootamundra will have reduced staff. Scoop has been told voluntary redundancy packages are already

Yass Tribune • 21st May 2014

Inquest delays family's closure

Yass widow Fiona Vickery will have to wait at least another three months to find out why her husband Wayne died during a workplace accident at a Canberra building site two-and-a-half years ago. The coronial investigation into the cause of his death was suspended on Monday so prosecutors can consider laying criminal charges. “I want it over with. It’s very long and drawn out with no answers,” she said. “Why did Wayne die? If everything was the way it was supposed to be, how was it then, why di

Scoop Yass Valley • 6th April 2016

Pedal power in Yass on Sunday

A contingent of politicians rode into Yass on Sunday as part of the annual Pollie Pedal ride for charity, this year raising funds for Carers Australia. Pollie Pedal founder and former Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Hume MP Angus Taylor were among a plethora of cyclists who embarked from Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday morning. They were slightly behind schedule arriving in Yass at about 1.20pm. “This is the first day and it’s certainly gone very well – as soon as we got to the electora

Landline, ABC TV • 3rd February 2013

Town Crier

PIP COURTNEY, PRESENTER: One small town newspaper has given its big city counterparts a pointer to continued popularity and profitability. The Yass Tribune in southern NSW played a vital role during recent fires by keeping its community informed. Not so much in print, but through its web page and Facebook site. Its readers responded enthusiastically, as Adrienne Francis reports. WOMAN: We know we're going to get absolutely update information on what's been happening, not only on the paper,

Scoop Yass Valley • 24th August 2018

Flags at half mast for revered Aboriginal Elder Eric Bell

The Aboriginal and Australian flags flew at half mast today as a mark of respect for late Ngunnawal Elder Eric Bell OAM, who passed away overnight on Tuesday. The revered Yass identity and community advocate had been gravely ill in hospital for two weeks with complications brought on from lung cancer and dementia. His funeral will be held on Tuesday at 1pm, with police cordoning off the procession from Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church because of the expected attendance numbers. The region is

Canberra Times • 6th January 2014

Firefighter injured, property lost in highway blaze

Property damage, injury and traffic disruptions have been caused after grass fires in the ACT and surrounding region. A volunteer firefighter is in a serious but stable condition in a Sydney hospital after burns to his face and hands from the blaze off the Hume Highway near Yass on Sunday. NSW Rural Fire Service spokesman Joel Kershaw said the man was not on duty when he was burnt. "He wasn't with the brigade and on a truck, he was working in a private capacity, and suffered burns to his hand

Newcastle Herald • 21st June 2014

MEGA GALLERY: The week in pictures, June 20

COWRA: Local landholders are hoping they will be consulted during a million-dollar feasibility study into the Needles Gap Dam proposal. The state minister for natural resources, lands and water Kevin Humphries announced the $1million feasibility study into the proposed Needles Gap dam as a part of the 2014-15 state budget handed down on Tuesday. COWRA: The NRMA NSW Country Corellas have wrapped up their 2014 representative season on a high with a comprehensive win over the ACT in Campbelltown.

Yass Tribune • 11th January 2013

As it unfolded

The Cobbler Road fire had destroyed more than 14000 hectares at the time of writing. From Tuesday afternoon, this is what happened: Tuesday 2pm: Smoke haze envelops Yass and surrounding areas as fire crews work to contain blaze between Gunning and Gundaroo. 4.12pm: Five hectares burnt in an out-of-control fire at Jugiong near the intersection of Hume Highway and Cobbler Road. Within the hour it is upgraded to an emergency with 450 hectares burnt. 4.23pm: Wind gusts up to 60km/h hamper efforts

Canberra Times • 21st March 2014

Yass's Mt Carmel parents vow to fight school closure

Outrage in Yass at the closure of the town’s Catholic high school is continuing, with a parish priest accusing a Catholic Education Commission official of defaming him and a walk out by commission representatives from a hostile public meeting. The Mt Carmel School and wider Yass community gathered on Thursday night to hear from about the archdiocese’s decision to close the secondary school at the end of this year, which will lead to students crossing the border to Catholic schools in Canberra f

Scoop Yass Valley • 19th August 2018

Meeting to consider heated pool possibilities

Yass Valley Council is calling on interested residents to form a community committee to investigate the viability of a heated swimming pool in Yass. They will host a feasibility information night at the Memorial Hall on Thursday night, 6.30pm, with the public invited to attend. A steering committee will be set up consisting of 15 people council hopes will be widely representative of the community, including sporting groups, community groups and medical professionals interested in investing in

Scoop Yass Valley • 24th August 2018

Fox eradication plan for sensitive Yass Gorge

ENVIRONMENT: In the wee early hours on a residential town block backing onto the Yass Gorge, a skinny adolescent fox rummages around the garbage bins in search of food. It’s one of a growing number of foxes that are beginning to encroach into more urban areas after cleaning out the rabbit population in the gorge. But this one’s come to the wrong home at the wrong time, and soon steps into a cage trap set by the team at All Ferals Pest Management. It will be taken away and shot. “She’s about