AUSTRALIA’S largest mobile wildlife hospital finished up its regional tour of biodiversity hotspots in Coffs Harbour last week stopping at Dolphin Marine Conservation Park. The aim of the tour was to engage wildlife carers, vets, community organisations and the…
BREWERS at The Bunker is a fundraising event that shares the craft tipples of our local niche spirit, beer and wine producers on the Coffs Coast. Brewers at The Bunker, raising funds for the local Can Do Cancer Trust,…
BELLINGEN will host a public talk and seminars from 11 to 13 June when long-time Buddhist scholar and practitioner Jakob Leschly will lead an open discussion on Buddhist psychology and philosophy. Jakob will talk the audience through how this…
TWELVE students and three teachers from Bishop Druitt College (BDC) are taking up this year’s Act for Peace Ration Challenge from June 14-18. The BDC students will join the more than ninety nine thousand Australians who have participated in…
PLANS to establish an animal pound at Coffs Harbour have progressed with Coffs Harbour City Council accepting a tender for construction of the new pound. Council took action to establish a new animal impound facility following advice from RSPCA…
A REPORT on the disposal of acid sulfate soils from the Cultural and Civic Space site in Gordon Street, Coffs Harbour, will be undertaken by Coffs Harbour City Council following community concern over the soil being disposed of at…
THIRD generation Chief Executive Officer Paul Hurley of the Brown and Hurley Truck Group Inc invites everyone to help Brown and Hurley celebrate its 75th year by coming to their Coffs Harbour Open Day on June 5. At the…
DEAR News Of The Area, I WORRY about our children’s future, when they are allowed to ‘wag’ school, apparently with the encouragement of their teachers, to attend a climate strike about a fabricated “climate emergency” and listen to propaganda,…
JAMES Marles was the second person to apply for land in the Coffs Harbour LGA after undertaking a journey halfway round the world to reach the area. Born in Smethwick in Staffordshire, England on 8 May 1849, he emigrated…
DEAR News Of The Area, I TRUST our Jetty Steering Committee visits the Jetty Sunday Markets and see the vacant areas north and south of Marina Drive currently used for parking are full with the overflow stretching along Jordan…