News

The 39th LRMA Annual General Meeting will be held this Saturday at the Bowling Club starting at 11am. All financial members should come along, get an update on where we are at and raise any issues that are of concern to them. The LRMA Christmas party will be held from 1pm at the RSL Club. All financial members and their families are ver...

The latest census put the population at 2492 but the big sign on the road into town defiantly declares: ‘‘Lightning Ridge population ?’’ More than a century since its founding, the colourful mining community still dances to a beat as rare, mysterious and anarchic as the beautiful black opal gouged from the earth beneath the outback scrub o...