The Grafton Indonesian women’s dance group. The Coffs Harbour Indonesian women’s dance group will perform the Nusa Tenggara Timur traditional dance. COFFS Harbour’s much-loved multicultural Christmas lunch will take on a festive twist, featuring traditional dance performances from both the Coffs Harbour and Grafton Indonesian women’s groups. The community is invited to attend the event […]

A THIRD-generation local, the Member for Coffs Harbour and newly elected leader of the NSW Nationals, Gurmesh Singh, grew up in a Woolgoolga farming family of Indian heritage. Life in the family and community revolved around agriculture – first bananas then macadamias, and later berries. During that time and through his teens, Mr Singh wasn’t […]

A 76-YEAR-OLD aged-care resident seen half-naked after being allegedly raped by a man who broke into her room told her son she thought she was going to die. Hayden Carl Skinner, a 31-year-old drug user living in Coffs Harbour, has been accused of sexually assaulting the elderly woman on New Year’s Day. In the early […]

THE Liberal party’s latest leader has thrown down the gauntlet, vowing to fight with her ailing party as a crucial election looms. First-term MP Kellie Sloane completed her meteoric ascent to the top of the NSW Liberals on Friday after her predecessor Mark Speakman gave way to mounting pressure and resigned. With just 18 months […]

Yarrila Place. Photo: Tom Roe, image courtesy of BVN. Yarrila Place. Photo: Tom Roe, image courtesy of BVN. YARRILA Place has taken out one of Australia’s most prestigious architecture awards for public buildings. Announced at a gala ceremony in Canberra, the Council facility in the Coffs Harbour CBD won the Sir Zelman Cowen Award for […]

BILL Fulton recalls counting 1162 dead birds during a four-and-a-half kilometre morning beach walk. That’s a rough average of one every four metres. But when he tells people about the work and its confronting reality, they’re curiously inclined to dismiss it as kind of normal. “We want people to know that this is different,” Mr […]

ENERGY retailers say they’ve been blindsided by reforms promising free electricity to hundreds of thousands of Australians during peak solar power hours. The Solar Sharer program, announced by the federal government last Tuesday, would give consumers free access to electricity for three hours each day as part of the default offer available. Households in NSW, […]

LANDHOLDERS across NSW are being encouraged to take advantage of $850,000 worth of free grain and bait on offer as part of a statewide crackdown on feral pigs. The funding is part of the Government’s Feral Pig and Pest Program with funding from the State’s more than $1 billion biosecurity budget. It is the third […]

MEMBER for Oxley Michael Kemp says the CSIRO’s National Koala Monitoring Program (NKMP) has revealed a staggering leap in koala numbers that “upends years of alarmism”. The 2025 report estimates the listed population across NSW, Qld and the ACT is between 398,000 and 569,000, a dramatic rise from the 2024 estimate of just 95,000 to […]

The Country Women’s Association North Coast Group Executive. Nursing grant recipient Sarah Brown with CWA North Coast Group Group President Leonie Saunders. Nursing grant recipient Mahaila Matheson with CWA North Coast Group Group President Leonie Saunders. THE Country Women’s Association (CWA) North Coast Group held their annual meeting on Wednesday 15 October at the Salvation […]