GROW your health and wellbeing by visiting the botanic garden in Coffs Harbour during Botanic Gardens Week from Monday 18 to Sunday 24 May. The Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden are offering free guided walks to rejuvenate the body and mind during the week. This includes a ‘Wonder Walk’ – a sensory […]
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FOR many in our community, hard work in industries construction, forestry, power generation, road building and manufacturing has been a way of life. But for some, that work has come at a hidden cost. Diseases caused by asbestos and silica dust often take decades to appear. By the time symptoms develop, the connection to past […]
Jetty Beach is set to host racing this weekend. Photo: Rob Cleary, Seen Australia.
AUSTRALIA’s best outrigger crews are ready to race for national titles on the Coffs Coast. Coffs Harbour is set to host the 2026 Australian Outriggers National Marathon Championship this weekend. It will be contested over three fierce days of racing from Friday, 15 May, to Sunday, 17 May at Jetty Beach. The event draws hundreds […]
DEAR News Of The Area, AUSTRALIA is being told inflation is the nation’s biggest economic threat, yet the actions of the Federal Government suggest something very different. Australians are tightening their belts, cutting household spending, struggling with mortgages, rent, groceries and power bills, while Canberra continues to spend at record levels. The question many ordinary […]
The majority of services will be operated by modern coaches featuring wheelchair accessibility, improved seating and seatbelts, mobile phone charging points, onboard defibrillators and toilets.
NEW routes and modernised coaches have been unveiled as part of a major upgrade to NSW TrainLink coach services. A 36 percent funding increase across the NSW TrainLink coach network will lift total funding to $290 million over the next nine years. From 1 July, 14 coach operators will run 49 routes across the NSW […]
The Urunga Raiders defeated the Woolgoolga 4-0 in the Women’s Premier League.
REIGNING Women’s Premier League champions Urunga celebrated Female Football Week in style, overpowering Woolgoolga Wildcats 4-0 on a chilly Friday night away from home. Kate Fry struck twice inside the opening half hour as the Raiders made the perfect start in Woolgoolga. The Wildcats refused to go quietly however, launching a series of attacking raids […]
Amaia Wain in action for the Bellingen Bulldogs. Photo: AFL North Coast.
AMAIA Wain has been drafted into the best female Aussie Rules league in the country. The former Bellingen Bulldogs and Sawtell/Toormina Saints player was selected at pick number four by the Western Bulldogs in the inaugural AFLW pre-season draft. The 18-year-old was selected by the Bulldogs after a breakout season playing for the University of […]
Stocking locations across the Hunter and Mid North Coast. Photo: DPI.
RECREATIONAL fishers are invited to have their say on which NSW dams and impoundments they would like to see stocked with their favourite freshwater fish species, as the NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) develops its stocking program for the year ahead. DPIRD Aquaculture Director Ian Lyall said NSW is home to […]
