ONLY 71% of 18-year olds and 83% of 19-year-old Australians are enrolled to vote this year. These numbers have jumped since enrolments closed, originally only being 51% and 76% consecutively. 18-24 year olds are the highest demographic of voters missing…
What can be seen as a sign of the digital times’ age, Medowie’s only DVD and games hire shop is closing its doors at the end of the month. Main Street Video, located in the Ferodale Road Plaza, has been…
IT is now a whole lot easier to access information about the flood risks of properties across Port Stephens. Port Stephens Council will issue Flood Certificates from 1 July 2016, allowing property owners, developers and potential property owners to apply online…
Is your local community group always talking about that ‘one day, when we win the lottery’? Have you got plans for an upgrade or extension? Is there a new program you’d love to set in motion, if only you had…
Mayor of Port Stephens, Bruce MacKenzie has today delivered $19,000 to local community organisations to help them continue their good work for the benefit of Port Stephens residents. Mens shed groups, Lions clubs, schools and the Port Stephens Suicide Prevention…
Weekly Comp Results Week Ending 19/06/16 Wednesday Mens Individual Stableford A Grade 1st Place Phil Bowron 36 c/b 2nd Place Alan Jewell 36 3rd Place Michael Fletcher 34 c/b 4th Place Brayden Petersen 34 B Grade 1st Place Matthew Gambrill…
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a man missing in Newcastle since early yesterday morning. About 1.30am (Thursday 16 June 2016), the 20-year-old Jackson Baker was with his girlfriend at a nightclub on Centennary Road, when he…
A number of road closures are in place following a bus crash in Northmead. About 2.40pm today (Wednesday 15 June 2016), police and emergency services were called to Boundary Road, near Kleins Street, following reports that a bus had crashed…
Six men arrested over the death of a man who was assaulted and stabbed on a public street in Sydney’s south-west in December last year have now been charged with murder. Emergency services were called to Belmore Street, Fairfield East,…
A high-ranking member and an associate of the Bandidos outlaw motorcycle gang have been arrested by officers from the Gangs Squad’s Strike Force Raptor following a brawl at a north-western Sydney hotel in April this year. About 10pm on Saturday…