4/09/2008 | Lightning Ridge residents vented their fury about the rate increases at the community meeting called by the Walgett Shire to discuss 2008/2009 rates.
4/09/2008 | Some residential claimholders around Lightning Ridge have not been offered western lands leases because of Native Title issue.
4/09/2008 | Lightning Ridge Central School teachers stopped work on Tuesday to attend Sky Channel meeting at the Lightning Ridge Bowling Club.
4/09/2008 | Lal O’Neil celebrated her 100th birthday on August 24 by attending mass at St Patrick’s at Bondi, which Father Paul Mahony officiated in honour of his great-aunt.
4/09/2008 | Police are urging residents to make sure their homes and mining claims are secure after a spike in the number of break, enter and steal offences in town since June.
4/09/2008 | Lightning Ridge residents vented their fury about the rate increases at the community meeting called by the Walgett Shire to discuss 2008/2009 rates.
4/09/2008 | This week saw the departure of Castlereagh’s Rural Crime Investigator Detective Adam McDougall.
29/08/2008 | The LRMA has had a very busy month fighting for the interests of opal miners.
29/08/2008 | The Lightning Ridge Hospital has welcomed new health service manager Beth Mills.
29/08/2008 | Police attended a residence in Matrix Street when a Lightning Ridge man barricaded himself in the house.
29/08/2008 | Member for Barwon, Kevin Humphries has asked the Walgett Shire Council administrator to please explain Lightning Ridge’s recent rate increase.
29/08/2008 | Last Friday saw the Wyoming leases finally come up for ballot.
29/08/2008 | More than 200 people attended a public meeting to discuss Walgett Shire Council’s recent rates increase on Sunday.
7/08/2008 | Lightning Ridge’s newest artist and talented leadlighter Brenda Stoner has recently become a member of the Lightning Ridge Arts and Crafts after moving to town.
7/08/2008 | Year 9 and 10 students of the Lightning Ridge Central school began a 10-week program under the NSW Rural fire Service Secondary schools cadet program last Thursday.
7/08/2008 | Directors of the Walgett, Nyngan and Coonamble Rural Lands Protection Boards (RLPBs) have put forward an alternative that will deliver greater benefits to ratepayers in their region.
7/08/2008 | Lightning Ridge has been popping up in all forms of media during the past few months.
7/08/2008 | The countdown has begun for hundreds of ordinary Australians trying to beat the cost of living doom and gloom.
7/08/2008 | The Lightning Ridge Indoor Heated Diving Pool has had its diving towers expertly fitted with Olympic grade non-slip rubber matting.
7/08/2008 | The chief mining warden held a directions hearing into Mr Slack-Smiths application for an assessment of compensation at the Lightning Ridge courthouse on August 5.