SIX hundred NSW Government employees across 26 different departments will work under one roof in Coffs Harbour CBD once a $55 million regional workplace hub is built at 11 Gordon Street, estimated to be completed by 2025. Member for Coffs…
OPENING on Saturday 25 February at the Phoenix Gallery in Bowraville is ‘Walking Together – Voice, Treaty, Truth’, a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture and mixed media works by artists Julie Byers, Carol Clarkson, Lee Albert, Jaine Rubine and Janet…
ON Sunday 12 February, residents at Valla Beach forsook their regular mid-morning activities to attend a training session for the area’s Community Defib Project, followed by an official launch of the program. By 10am the Community Hall, located at the…
SIX new volunteers will join the fabulous and formidable fundraising volunteers known as the Pink Auxiliary who work in Mary’s Tea House at Bellinger River District Hospital. With volunteers becoming thin on the ground, the hard-working members of the Bellingen…
PAT Conaghan, the Member for Cowper, claims that the Federal Government has imposed red tape that results in nurses, disability support workers, teachers and doctors being unfairly prevented from accessing priority visa processing. He has called on the Government to…
SARAH Mitchell, the Minister for Education and Early Learning, has recently announced several strategies to increase the number of teachers in New South Wales. The Grow Your Own Teacher Training program, which the State Government says is ‘an innovative approach…
A MAN has tragically died after being pulled unconscious from the surf at Nambucca Heads on Sunday. About 12.40pm on Sunday 12 February, emergency services responded to reports a man had encountered difficulties after being struck by a wave whilst…
AN extended range of activities is now on offer as the Woolgoolga Seniors’ Centre launches its 2023 program. Activities on offer include pilates, scrap booking, indoor bowls, table tennis, art classes, craft group, knitting for the Wrapped with Love program,…
CONSERVATIONISTS have been warning for a while that current logging practices could lead to contamination of drinking water supplies. With the Clarence Valley Council asking Coutts Crossing residents to boil their tap water and residents across the Clarence Valley being…
COMMUNITY groups across the Cowper electorate can access Federal Government grants to upgrade and improve their facilities and resources. Federal Member for Cowper Pat Conaghan said $150,000 had been allocated to upgrade local community infrastructure through round eight of the…