COUNCIL is accepting community feedback on its Draft Delivery Program 2022-2026 and Operational Plan for the 2024-25 financial year until 7 June. “The Delivery Program describes Council’s activities over a four-year period, while the Operational Plan 2024-2025 details our proposed…
THE wellspring of creativity that is the Nambucca Valley can lay claim to another artistic jewel in the form of a new album by folk troubadour Deebee Bishop, intriguingly titled ‘Dog Eared and Torn’. This album, Deebee’s fifth, does not…
AFTER twenty years together, David and Wendy’s marriage breaks-down and they decide to get divorced. Prior to David and Wendy’s relationship breakdown, David’s father passes away and he receives a significant inheritance of $500,000. David’s inheritance complicates the upcoming property…
DEAR News Of The Area, IN response to Derek Musgrove opinion regarding small modular nuclear generation. Derek, the reason nuclear sub reactors are not used for domestic generation is because they use a more enriched fuel unsuitable for domestic SMRs.…
THE NSW Government released its Biodiversity Outlook Report for 2024 last week, providing an updated overview of the state’s ecosystems and biological diversity. In 2020, the first NSW Biodiversity Outlook Report presented the results of the first assessment of the…
THE parents of Kye Schaefer have made an emotional plea to anyone with information about their son’s murder to come forward. About 6.40am on Thursday 2 May 2024 emergency services were called to Ocean Parade, Coffs Harbour, following reports a…
THE results of the 2024 NSW Street Count are in, with 53 people counted rough sleeping on the streets of the Port Macquarie-Hastings local government area (LGA) on the night of 22 February, up ten from 43 in 2023. In…
FIRE safety education was the focus as Laurieton Fire Station opened its doors to the community for the annual NSW Fire and Rescue Open Day on 11 May. It was all hands on deck as the Laurieton Fire and Rescue…