As a regional centre for the and , Hotels Wagga Wagga is home to a number of regional media outlets. Both and air half-hour local news programs on weeknights. The bulletins are presented from studios in and Hotels Wagga Wagga respectively with reporters and camera crews for both services based in newsrooms in the city. In addition, runs a small sales office. Wagga’s shopping centres include two notable centres of metropolitan standards, and in the central business district, and suburban shopping centres such as the new South City Shopping Centre in , the Lake Village Shopping Centre, , the Shopping Centre and Kooringal Mall in . Wagga also has a large Home Base located on the . Wagga’s central business district, with both Baylis and Fitzmaurice Streets and other surrounding streets, offers hundreds of specialty retailers including national chains such as , and . The dairy company (Formerly Murrumbidgee Dairy Products ), is based on the Sturt Highway which is a supplier of dairy products in the Riverina, Other major industries include and which are located in the suburb of ..

By attacking Hotels Wagga, including the Hamra, which is favored by Westerners, the bombers again called into question the capability of Iraq’s security forces, whose leaders had boasted only a week ago that they had thwarted a plot to carry out high-profile bombings in the city.