4/07/2008 | BEGA Valley Shire Council has agreed to spend $12,000 to retain the services of a web-based company to improve its communication with the community.
4/07/2008 | BEGA Valley Shire Council mayor has announced he will contest the upcoming council elections after receiving a clean bill of health from his doctors.
4/07/2008 | BEGA Valley Shire Council is urging local not-for-profit organisations to nominate their most dedicated workers for the 2008 NSW Volunteer of the Year Award.
4/07/2008 | Emergency numbers
4/07/2008 | AS expected, the murder-suicide of Gary Poxon and his three children has reached across the continent.
4/07/2008 | The NSW Department of Community Services has confirmed that its Bega caseworkers were aware on Tuesday, June 24, that an Apprehended Violence Order had been taken out by Karen Bell against her husband.
4/07/2008 | THERE has been an outpouring of grief throughout the Bega Valley over the past week as the shock of the tragedy at Pericoe sinks in.
4/07/2008 | THE funeral for the Bell children, Jack, Maddie and Bon will be held next wednesday in Bega.
4/07/2008 | THE woman at the heart of the Pericoe tragedy in which a man killed himself and his three children, has sent a clear and precise message to those in power that the system of protection for woman who suffer from domestic violence is woefully inadequate.
1/07/2008 | Last days for Hannan exhibition
1/07/2008 | Friends and neighbours talked at length at the weekend about the dramatic events which led to the discovery of the murder-suicide of three young children and their father in a car on a remote bush property west of Eden last week.
1/07/2008 | KAY Rogers is a “doer” and a “stirrer” and she has been ever since she arrived in the Bega Valley (and she probably was before then).
1/07/2008 | Karen Bell wrote this tribute to her children
1/07/2008 | AS A result of an emotional phone call to Bega District News yesterday, the three local papers in the region have opened an appeal to help Karen Bell with any financial problems she will face in the coming months.
1/07/2008 | THE apparent murder-suicide of a man and three young children near Eden during the weekend highlights the need for improved service systems in the Bega Valley Shire.
1/07/2008 | KAREN Bell sits on a small lounge in the back room of her parents’ Bega house, the morning sun streaming through the window, her eyes red from lack of sleep and tears.
27/06/2008 | STATISTICS can lie, but unhappily those of the 2007 NSW Population Health Survey may be hard to refute.
27/06/2008 | A TASMANIAN woman, 47, has been charged, by virtue of an arrest warrant, with demand money with menaces in company in relation to an alleged extortion of a person to be known only as “X” who worked with disgraced doctor Graeme Reeves.
27/06/2008 | A BEGA man has taken drastic action to rid himself of severe toothache.
27/06/2008 | ITEM three on the agenda of the Bega Valley Council Ordinary Meeting on Tuesday brought considerable debate.