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Herdies Coffee in Armidale.

Herdies Coffee

St Ali coffee and pastries inside The Welder’s Dog Brewery.

  • Bianca Hrovat

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BackTrack Night Crew workers Steph Olsen and Zac Craig at Armidale’s police station.

Fast track BackTrack: Program for troubled kids must be replicated

Community-led programs are the key to helping stem youth crime.

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BackTrack Night Crew workers Zac Craig and Steph Olsen talk to young people in Armidale.

This service is saving kids’ lives. More towns want to replicate it, but none have succeeded

Politicians want to replicate it and most of the “at-risk” children involved in BackTrack never want to leave.

  • Jordan Baker
Larvotto Resources’ existing processing plant at its Hillgrove gold and antimony mine in New South Wales.

WA miner nails the timing as in-demand critical mineral flagged on government’s wish-list

Larvotto Resources currently holds the largest antimony mineral resource in the country at its Hillgrove project near Armidale in New South Wales.

  • Michael Philipps
Armidale Secondary College

Schoolgirls, 11 and 13, arrested after allegedly assaulting staff and police

The two girls plunged a NSW school into lockdown when they allegedly attempted to assault a fellow student before turning on staff.

  • Jessica McSweeney

Signor Vertelli

The closest thing to Naples in the Northern Tablelands.

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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