April 3, 2026

Coffs Coast News Of The Area

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Farm flood damage trickling through to grocery checkout Blueberry prices are expected to remain high with recent flooding destroying Australian crops. Photo: Frank Redward/AAP PHOTOS.
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Farm flood damage trickling through to grocery checkout

EYE-WATERING prices for blueberries are set to continue but shoppers will be mostly protected elsewhere from recent widespread farm flooding. Extensive rainfall and floods across northern NSW in May left thousands of farmers with crop and cattle losses. About one in four blueberries will not make the shelves this season due to the floods as […]

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Sawtell Bowls Results Mixed Pairs Final L/R (J Ritchie, B Blight DEF R Booth, B Bracken ).
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Sawtell Bowls Results

Ladies Minor Singles Final L/R (Day Winner DEF A Water R/UP). Mixed Pairs Final L/R (J Ritchie, B Blight DEF R Booth, B Bracken ). MONDAY Twilight Bowls 9/6/25 A Waters, J Cherne, H Slater DEF C Jennings, B Tremayne, G Hampson R Avery, L Read, C Christian DEF E Korchma, T Wright, P Nikitin […]

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National Marine Science Centre welcomes sea cucumber scholar
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National Marine Science Centre welcomes sea cucumber scholar

Marilyn Brien of the Coffs Harbour Daybreak Rotary Club with Taylor Bratton. Taylor diving with a manta ray in the waters off Komodo Island in Indonesia. UNITED States PhD student Taylor Bratton, now studying at the National Marine Science Centre (NMSC) through a collaboration with Coffs Harbour Rotary Club, will make the city her home […]

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Community and business get behind domestic violence safe phone initiative
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Community and business get behind domestic violence safe phone initiative

COFFS City Rotary, in partnership with local hotels and domestic violence agencies Warrina Women’s Refuge and Bluesky,  launched the Domestic Violence (DV) Safe Phone initiative on Thursday 12 June at the Toormina Hotel. Since 2020, the charity DV Safe Phone has collected, repaired and distributed free mobile phones to domestic violence victims through their nationwide […]

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BDC students prove their perseverance at the Kokoda Challenge Bishop Druitt College students set off on one of the toughest school events, the Kokoda Challenge.
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BDC students prove their perseverance at the Kokoda Challenge

Bishop Druitt College students set off on one of the toughest school events, the Kokoda Challenge. Bishop Druitt College students set off on one of the toughest school events, the Kokoda Challenge. IT’S A case of “mission accomplished” for the 60 students and 14 teachers from Bishop Druitt College (BDC) who took on one of […]

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Red Cross Emergency Services volunteer Judith Jackson receives National Emergency Medal Judith Jackson with State Director Ismail Ibrahim and Emergency Services Manager Mark Ludbrooke.
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Red Cross Emergency Services volunteer Judith Jackson receives National Emergency Medal

Team leader for Woolgoolga Red Cross Emergency Service Judith Jackson receives the National Emergency Medal from Chairman of the Divisional Advisory Board Nick Young. Judith Jackson with State Director Ismail Ibrahim and Emergency Services Manager Mark Ludbrooke. RED Cross volunteer Judith Jackson, the team leader for Woolgoolga Red Cross Emergency Services, has been presented with […]

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Awards recognise excellence, innovation and leadership Aboriginal Health Liaison Officer Reg Craig with Aboriginal Health Practitioner Laurie Clay accepting the Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare award for the Hastings Aboriginal Diabetes Education Service.
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Awards recognise excellence, innovation and leadership

Aboriginal Health Liaison Officer Reg Craig with Aboriginal Health Practitioner Laurie Clay accepting the Excellence in Aboriginal Healthcare award for the Hastings Aboriginal Diabetes Education Service. Acting Hastings Macleay Clinical Network Coordinator Jo Campbell presents the Nurse/Midwife of the Year Award to Clinical Nurse Educator Julie Claridge from Coffs Harbour. MNCLHD Acting Director Integrated Mental […]

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Tooheys launches flood relief initiative with Coffs Coast hotels
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Tooheys launches flood relief initiative with Coffs Coast hotels

Tooheys has launched a flood relief initiative in partnership with local venues. Australian Hotels Association’s John Green and Lion NSW Field Sales Director Greg Watt. TOOHEYS has teamed up with a range of Coffs Coast venues to support flood recovery efforts. The beer brand has launched the Tooheys NSW Flood Relief initiative in partnership with […]

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Oxford historian discusses Women at Work at ArtsNational Alice Foster speaks at ArtsNational.
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Oxford historian discusses Women at Work at ArtsNational

Alice Foster speaks at ArtsNational. The Ruby Loftus 1943 painting ‘Screwing a Breech Ring’. OXFORD-based art historian Alice Foster was the guest speaker at ArtsNational Coffs Coast in May, sharing how art reflects the social, political and economic forces of the time. Ms Foster’s presentation “Women at Work”, described how art is a rich historical […]

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