Port Macquarie’s Breakwall. Photo: @port.macquarie.01
A NEW wave of internal migration is reshaping regional Australia, with coastal communities from Port Stephens through to the Mid North Coast continuing to attract strong interest from city dwellers. While Queensland’s Sunshine Coast remains the top destination nationally, the NSW corridor spanning Port Stephens, the MidCoast, Port Macquarie, Nambucca and Coffs Harbour is maintaining […]
Image a world without a moon.
IMAGINE a world where the Moon never showed up for its nightly shift. No silver spotlight draped across oceans, no quiet companion hanging above late-night thinkers. Just a blazing Sun clocking out each evening and leaving us with… a blackout. Romantic? Not exactly. Mysterious? Maybe – but mostly inconvenient. Let’s start at the beach. Without […]
The Coffs Harbour Living Well Expo. Participants at a past Living Well Expo. ORGANISATIONS and businesses supporting older adults and people living with disability on the Mid North Coast, are gearing up for the free Coffs Harbour Living Well Expo. Returning on Wednesday 13 May, it will bring together community members, service providers, and other […]
Karangi residents at the community information session at Upper Orara Hall. Photo: Kate Pye.
Karangi residents at the community information session at Upper Orara Hall. Photo: Kate Pye. Sharon Few at her property overlooking the proposed battery storage site. Photo: Kate Pye. A map of the proposed battery facility location in Karangi. SYDNEY-BASED developer Avenis Energy is proposing a 10-hectare lithium-ion battery storage facility in Karangi, with construction and […]
Casey Cowgill is one of a growing number of local women launching a career in the construction trades.
WOMEN in Construction Week in March revealed the number of women enrolling in construction trades courses in NSW more than doubled in the five years to 2025. One local example is 20-year-old Coffs Harbour apprentice plumber Casey Cowgill, a self-described “accidental plumber”. The daughter of a bricklayer, Casey is a proud Dunghutti woman who chose […]
Radiographer Cameron Hinshaw, Acting Macksville District Hospital Executive Officer Anna Pascoe, Dr Karly Field and Acting GM Regional and Rural Hospitals Lisa Slater with the new CT scanner. Photo: supplied.
ACCESS to advanced medical imaging has taken a significant step forward in the Nambucca Valley, with a new state-of-the-art CT scanner now installed at Macksville District Hospital. The addition of the new equipment means local patients, particularly those undergoing cancer treatment, can now receive important scans closer to home, avoiding the need to travel to […]
The corner of Moonee Beach and Sullivans roads is a potential site for the Moonee Community Hub.
CITY of Coffs Harbour’s quick assessment of development applications has opened the door for a million-dollar boost for the growing Moonee Beach community. The NSW Government’s Faster Assessment Incentive Program aims to encourage councils to shorten development assessment timeframes – an area where Coffs has been excelling. The upshot of that high performance means the […]
Paramedics Lauren Foster and Matt Chapman, CFR Chris Hanson, GCG President Elizabeth Shipman, paramedic Julie Whitton, GCG Moira Gibbons, CFR Barry Butler. Front: GCG Margaret Preshaw and CFR Jodie Williams.
GLENREAGH Creative Group members have donated over 40 Izzy dolls to the NSW Ambulance Service, Coffs Harbour Station. The presentation on Thursday 26 March included the two voluntary Community First Responder (CFR) Units within the Orara Valley, Glenreagh and Nana Glen. President of the Glenreagh Creative Group Elizabeth Shipman said the Izzy Dolls started life […]
Glen James (Health Voyage Board Chairperson), Cecilia and Basia (hCH), Monika Wheeler, Cathie (Health Voyage), Emma McBride, Sharna (hCH Centre Manager), Dean, Cindy and (front) Sharleen (hCH).
HEADSPACE Coffs Harbour (hCH) recently welcomed a visit from Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Emma McBride, along with Healthy North Coast’s CEO Monika Wheeler, and Director of Integrated Community Wellbeing Aimee McNeill. The visit focused on the headspace Demand Management and Enhancement Program, which has recently supported the refurbishment of the waiting […]
IN March 2023, a Regional Development Australia Mid North Coast (RDAMNC) survey found that only 65 percent of childcare demand on the Mid North Coast was being met, a shortfall said to be costing local families an estimated $384 million in lost wages each year. The survey focused on the region covered by the MidCoast, […]
