News and Media Releases

Bus Safety

Remind your child to always wait until the bus has gone before choosing a safe place to cross the road. Always drop them off or meet them on the same side of the road as the bus stop. Help keep our kids safe: https://education.nsw.gov.au/schooling/parents-and-carers/safe-travel/safe-bus-travel-to-and-from-school

Safer Internet Day – 5 tips for a safer internet

Wentworth Shire Council is proudly supporting Safer Internet Day 2025. Help make the internet a safer place and find tools and resources at eSafety.gov.au

Make sure your child is safe

Make sure your little passengers are properly secured in an approved child car seat for their age and size before heading out on the road. https://www.childcarseats.com.au/

Safety Tips

Lights flash on the back of buses to warn motorists they’re picking up or dropping off kids. Bus flashing lights: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/road-users/drivers/be-bus-aware#Bus_flashing_lights

Revised Changes to Waste Facilities: Trial of Amended Operating Hours

Revised Changes to Waste Facilities: Trial of Amended Operating HoursDue to increased potential for fires and fatigue in extreme high temperatures, waste facilities will open and close one (1) hour earlier commencing Saturday 8 February, with a trial period until Friday 14 March 2025. Recent trialled hot weather times (implemented Saturday 1 February) proved to […]

Saturday 08 February 2025

School Zones

Most school zones are in operation between 8am-9.30am and 2.30pm-4pm around schools Monday to Friday. Slow down and look out for children crossing. Please check signs for school zone hours. Help keep our kids safe: https://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/community/schools/school-zones

Sturt Highway Taskforce Meeting

Make sure your child is safe

Make sure you have the right car seat for your child’s age and size and you know how to use it correctly. https://www.childcarseats.com.au/

Saturday 01 February 2025

GoodSAM: Help keep them alive, while paramedics arrive

Cardiac arrest is often unexpected and affects up to 9,000 people in NSW every year. For every minute a patient doesn’t get chest compressions, also known as Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), their chances of survival fall by 7-10%. That’s where GoodSAM comes in, an app that helps save lives by empowering the community to respond quickly […]

Child Safe Standards – School Holiday Programs

Wentworth Shire Council is committed to being a child safe organisation, promoting participation and empowerment of children and young people. Council has created ways for children and young people to share their ideas on what they would like their future to look like, offering drawing sheets in holiday programs to draw and share their aspirations […]

NEW CITIZENS & AUSTRALIA DAY AWARD WINNERS FOR 2025

Saturday 25 January 2025

Fire damage closes Houseboat Sewer Pump Out System

WENTWORTH HOUSEBOAT EFFLUENT DISPOSAL SYSTEM CLOSED On the morning of 22 January 2025, a small fire occurred underneath the gangway structure at the Houseboat Effluent Disposal System in Adams Street, Wentworth. While the fire was contained by the local Rural Fire Brigade, the gangway and underneath pipework and services was damaged. Cause of the fire […]