RESIDENTS have launched a petition calling for Nambucca Valley Council to take urgent action to repair the footbridge that allows beach access from Hyland Park. Council closed public access to the bridge on July 21, citing safety concerns, and…
MARK Robinson, a Year 12 student at Nambucca Heads High School, required his dad, Michael, to take his HSC Design and Technology Major Work to school for marking. Au contraire to copping out, the lad had built an 18ft…
A NAMBUCCA Valley Landcare project to restore the area’s flora and fauna after fire damage is now underway in the severely burnt forested headwaters of the Nambucca River catchment. Funding has been provided by the Australian Government, Landcare Australia…
HAVE you had yours? First jab or second jab? What did you get? These are questions we are all asking each other. Data released by Healthy North Coast (HNC) on August 29 reflects that North Coast COVID-19 vaccination rates…
THE Upper Orara Community Hall, built in 1908, has been for many years a busy, popular and important social hub for the local community of Upper Orara. It has seen countless social dances, cabarets, weddings, birthdays and melodramas in…
LAST week in parliament Federal Member for Cowper Mr Pat Conaghan effected a change in pay disparity for our paralympians on the world stage. He made a speech celebrating Cowper’s four paralympians in the Tokyo Paralympic Games and he…
NORTHERN Beaches residents will soon have another supermarket shopping option, with an Aldi supermarket approved for Moonee Market shopping centre. A development application submitted to Coffs Harbour City Council by Moonee Market shopping centre owner Primewest on 15 April…
LANDCARE on the North Coast is embarking on an Aboriginal engagement program called ‘CountryCare’ which will employ an Aboriginal Landcare Officer – the first such position in the State. “The position of Aboriginal Landcare Officer has been advertised recently…
WEDNESDAY, September 1 was Indigenous Literacy Day, an initiative of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. Because of COVID-19, the Foundation hosted a free virtual celebration for all Australians from 9am. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it…
SEVENTEEN minutes was all it took for a Facebook post to the Coffs Harbour community about a GoPro camera, found on Diggers Beach, to find its owners, a UK couple who’d lost it some two years earlier while on…