ansporting homemade pipe bombs along the Sturt Highway will serve his sentence in the community.

Thirty-three-year-old Timacoy Jason Williams remained in custody after pleading guilty to all charges at his October 4 appearance at Griffith Local Court and was sentenced on November 20 by Magistrate Wright.

Helen Dalton MP (pictured above), Member for Murray, says the truth about what she describes as $13 billion of wasted taxpayer money needs to be told.

The independent member is referring to a new four-year study into the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) Plan reveals mixed results.

The four-year study released last involved 12 scientists from Australia’s leading universities, and drew on data from 1980 to 2023.

The report is co authored by Matthew Colloff, Kate Lanyon, Jamie Pittock, Milo Costanza-van den Belt, Sarah Wheele, Quentin Grafton, John Williams, Fran Sheldon, Richard Kingsford, Gilad Bino, Luigi Renzullo and Bradley Moggridge.

Tribute has been paid for the efforts of local community members and volunteers in the search and rescue of a fatal helicopter crash near One Tree on Friday.

Retired paramedic, Robert Marmont said locals rallied to render assistance after an official alert went out to all aircraft in the area.

“It was a local plane which located the site of the accident and it was local landholders and the Rural Fire Service and Fire and Rescue members who provided shade for the patient and emergency workers,” Mr Marmont told The Riverine Grazier.

“They stood for ages in the hot sun, holding a tarp over the site.”

The 2024 Rainbow on the Plains Festival was another huge success for the township of Hay.

Check out all the images and a wrap up of events.

Independent Member for Murray Helen Dalton has released a video, calling out foreign farm owners, and Australia’s farming managers, saying lives are at risk, and hush money is offered to workers to stay silent.