FORESTRY Corporation is reminding residents to purchase firewood authorisations before collecting wood from State forests. Recent updates have been made to Forestry Corporation’s online firewood permit page. The conditions for firewood collection have also been updated and should be understood prior to entering State forests. The system now distinguishes some locations between pine and native […]
A parliamentary inquiry has been told imported fruit pickers were subjected to prolonged suffering. Photo: AP PHOTO/ Robert F. Bukaty.
A BACKPACKER hoping for a memorable working holiday on an Australian farm finds himself crammed into a house with 17 people, eating dry bread and deprived of sunshine and fresh air. After arriving on a visa from China, the young man had headed to a small town on the NSW coast in 2024 to pick […]
Mayor Nikki Williams (kneeling) with Pam Worland (seated) and members of the Sawtell Historical Society.
Mayor Nikki Williams (kneeling) with Pam Worland (seated) and members of the Sawtell Historical Society. An old advertisement for the reserve. BEFORE Ossie Sawtell created his village in 1927, people regularly picnicked at the reserve across the creek. The Sawtell Historical Society has just released a history of the reserve titled “Bonville Reserve, The Manly […]
The site of the proposed social housing development. Image: DPHI.
HOMES NSW is currently in the community consultation phase for a proposed development that could deliver 60 new social and affordable homes to Coffs Harbour. The proposed development, at 211a-215 Harbour Drive, comprises a four-storey building with 60 high quality units, a communal room for residents, basement car parking and internal lifts, and landscaping and […]
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Photo: AAP Image/Lukas Coch.
THE groundwork has been laid for Australia’s most substantive attempt at tax reform in more than two decades as the treasurer promises to “grasp the nettle” on the thorny issue. Outlining his government’s economic agenda for its second term of parliament, Jim Chalmers threw down the gauntlet to industry, media, civil society and the political […]
Community members were detained by police after halting logging operations. Photo: Bellingen Activist Network.
Community members were detained by police after halting logging operations. Photo: Bellingen Activist Network. A drone image of a logged area of Orara East State Forest. Photo: Photo: Bellingen Activist Network. FORTY people gathered at a locked gate outside Orara East State Forest on 18 June, with 25 singing and dancing their way into the […]
The Local Land Services team is available to support landholders impacted by the recent floods
AN E-PETITION is now available on the NSW Parliament website calling for upgraded support to assist Hunter and Mid North Coast communities devastated by the May flood. It has now been more than a month since parts of the Mid North Coast were impacted by severe weather which saw more than 5,000 properties inundated and […]
Connor Roberts won a silver medal in 3D Digital Game Art. Photo: TAFE NSW.
TAFE NSW Coffs Harbour students performed very well at the WorldSkills Australia 2025 National Championships, held in Brisbane from 12-14 June. Connor Roberts claimed a silver medal in 3D Digital Game Art and received the award at the medal ceremony on Sunday in front of hundreds of vocational students from across the country. Fynn Robins […]
Downtown Coffs Harbour in 2009.
A COMPREHENSIVE study of the Coffs Creek floodplain – including a prioritised list of potential measures to further mitigate flood risk – has been endorsed by City of Coffs Harbour Council. At its meeting on 19 June, Council resolved to back the Coffs Creek Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan which was placed on public […]
Blueberry prices are expected to remain high with recent flooding destroying Australian crops. Photo: Frank Redward/AAP PHOTOS.
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 […]
