Thirteen people injured after demolition derby car ploughs into grandstand during NSW event Two in critical condition after driver crashes into crowd at Walcha Motorcycle Rally about 90km from Tamworth The Guardian - AU · Nov 16, 2025
Australians are cashing in on rapid wind farm expansion, but it's tearing some towns apart Power and money are pitting neighbour against neighbour as one old farming community grapples with a new, rapidly growing industry. ABC News · Apr 13, 2023
Alison Jones is on a mission to end Walcha's childcare desert and make rural GP clinics 'viable' When Alison Jones took a gamble on a reality TV show more than a decade ago, she never imagined it would end up transforming her life and the small rural town she'd eventually call home. ABC News · Apr 1, 2023
How the wind blows in Walcha: a community divided over renewable energy Farmers in New England are facing off against an unlikely alliance of the National party and conservationists The Guardian - AU · Mar 14, 2023
A 'packet of poo tickets': Joyce weighs in on wind farm Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has told a group of Walcha locals that the Winterbourne Windfarm EIS is a "packet of poo tickets". Newcastle Herald · Jan 23, 2023
Walcha woman one of two victims in weekend of tragedies "The loss of the lady at Walcha will have a big effect on the community up there." Newcastle Herald · Nov 14, 2022
Rogers claims top prize at Wollombi James Rogers and his sculpture Turning Light has won first prize in the Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival. Rogers, of Walcha, collects $25,000 for first prize. He describes the winning piece as "a composition of hand cut strips of steel pipe that continues a body of work where space, structure and… Newcastle Herald · Sep 16, 2022
Natasha Darcy sentenced to 40 years for murder of Mathew Dunbar at Walcha farm Natasha Darcy searched "how to commit murder" on the internet before killing her partner and trying to make it look like suicide, in a bid to inherit his New England farm. ABC News · Feb 21, 2022