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A rail trail between Armidale and Glen Innes would be one of the highest in Australia.

Bikes vs rail: Multimillion-dollar cycle tourism plan divides locals

A regional council wants to attract high-spending tourists to town by turning an old railway line into one of the highest cycling tracks in Australia. But not everyone is happy.

  • Catherine Naylor
Alasdair MacLeod

How Rupert Murdoch’s son-in-law solved crisis at family farm

Alasdair MacLeod was regularly escaping to the country with his young family when he realised something was going horribly wrong there – and needed a radical solution.

  • Catherine Naylor
Dr Robert Jauncy Hakwa Natukokona has been referred to the Medical Council of NSW by the Coroner for “investigation of his clinical conduct”.

Doctor under investigation after patient dies

A NSW doctor, who the coroner found “withheld” antibiotics from a patient who subsequently died, has been referred to the medical board for “investigation of his clinical conduct”.

  • Laura Banks
The University of New England was founded in the 45-room homestead “Booloominbah”, donated by the great-grandfather of chancellor James Harris in 1937.

Slights, spit and a supermarket chase: call for scalps over uni’s wild ride

Discontent had been building at Australia’s oldest regional university for years when its vice chancellor was accused of wiping her saliva on a schoolgirl’s face.

  • Harriet Alexander
University of New England vice chancellor Brigid Heywood has been charged with common assault.

Vice chancellor wiped saliva on schoolgirl’s face, family says

The University of New England has remained mute on the future of vice chancellor Brigid Heywood four days after she was charged with assault and behaving in an offensive manner.

  • Harriet Alexander
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University of New England vice chancellor Brigid Heywood, pictured in 2020, has been charged with common assault.

University head charged with assaulting 16-year-old schoolgirl

The University of New England is under pressure to stand aside Vice Chancellor Brigid Heywood over the alleged assault at an International Women’s Day event.

  • Harriet Alexander
Armidale hospital is among a string of facilities in the NSW Hunter that have put out an urgent call for nursing staff.

‘Google these towns’: Urgent plea for nurses across 14 regional hospitals

Severe shortages across regional NSW has prompted health officials to offer up to $500 a week in bonus payments to lure nurses to hospitals, including Tamworth, Tenterfield, Moree and Armidale.

  • Lucy Carroll and Carrie Fellner
The child was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital.

‘A terrifying ordeal’: Girl, 3, suffers ‘significant’ facial lacerations after kangaroo attack

The child suffered lacerations to her face, back, arms and the side of her head following the encounter in Armidale.

  • Sarah Keoghan
A former teacher at The Armidale School will be sentenced to jail next month for assaulting two boarders.

‘Didn’t want to know’: Rape survivor said school stonewalled him

Two men have told the NSW District Court of the lifelong suffering they endured as a result of being sexually assaulted by a teacher at The Armidale School.

  • Angus Thompson

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