PUBLIC sector nurses and midwives have rallied outside the Coffs Harbour Health Campus for fair pay and working conditions. Similar rallies were held on 23 July, outside Port Macquarie and Kempsey hospitals. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s…
NAMBUCCA writer John Merkel has taken top honours in The Hope Prize with a story titled ‘Shadows Cast by the Moon’. Billed as a “global short story prize like no other”, The Hope Prize calls for submissions on the themes…
THE twelfth annual C.ex Group Coffs Harbour Running Festival is set to be held on Sunday 8 September 2024. With running events booming around Australia this year, the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour expect this year’s Festival to be the…
ARCHIVE Mid North Coast presented a winter edition of ‘Live at The Farm’ on Sunday afternoon, with outdoor live music delivered at the Eungai Creek Buffalo Farm. Featuring Joey Leigh Wagtail and his band, with special guest Manduway, a Gumbaynggirr…
REGIONAL Express has gone into voluntary administration and cancelled all flights between major city airports, although regional flights are operating as usual. A statement posted on Rex’s website late on Tuesday said the administration affected parent company Regional Express Holdings…
THE Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) says new research is highly critical of Regional Forest Agreements (RFAs). The AKF says it shows that these agreements, struck between the federal and state governments, override the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999.…
EVERY year in the first week of August, the Camden Haven community is reminded that William Tyrrell is still missing. The little boy disappeared from the front yard of his foster grandmother’s Kendall home shortly after 10.30am on 12 September,…
CAMDEN HAVEN News Of The Area (NOTA) is seeking more enthusiastic locals with a background in writing to join the team. “If you have a background in writing, and a passion for your local community, I would love to hear…
DEAR News Of The Area, IS it simply my imagination or is the standard of driving getting increasingly worse? Why do some drivers indicate right when going straight across a roundabout? Or worse, indicate right to exit a roundabout! Barely…
DEAR News Of The Area, AROUND 10.30am on the morning of Sunday 28 July at the Rotary Lookout off Parkes Street I was chatting to a group of young Argentinian men and women. They are working on farms in the…