COFFS Harbour’s Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP) has developed an English, jobs and employment pathway for migrants that is helping to alleviate the shortage in retail and hospitality workers. According to figures released in April by jobs website SEEK,…
L-FRESH The Lion is one of Australia’s most important hip hop artists and he will bring his unique and powerful performance to the Moonee Beach Hotel this September. Curryfest Woolgoolga is proud to present South West Sydney born and…
FOUR 40ft shipping containers delivered the contents of King Tide’s brewery to the site of Coffs Harbour’s first craft brewery. “We unloaded our brewery and have installed it on site in a mammoth effort, and are now hooking up…
A COLLABORATION between Valla Voices and Bellingen Youth Orchestra Sinfonia and String School brings their first concert collaboration to Stockton Hall, Bellingen High School on July 31. Called ‘Colours of Home’ the concert celebrates local talent performing Australian music…
COFFS Harbour’s annual Coffs Cup Race Day and half day public holiday is still scheduled to go ahead, despite current COVID-19 restrictions in place throughout regional NSW. Coffs Harbour City Council confirmed the annual Coffs Cup public holiday will…
A $44m retail and residential highrise has been approved for the Coffs Harbour CBD area and is set to revitalise the shopping district. The 13-storey building will be located opposite C.ex Coffs at Harbour Drive and involves the demolition…
CAMEL Racing is coming to Coffs Harbour Showground on Saturday 21 August. Having travelled around NSW, Camel Racing Down Under event founder, Monique Annetts from AMA Events Management told News Of The Area, “We chose Coffs for the population…
ANTI-RACISM program, All One Under the Sun has produced its first major work, a song written and produced by Grow the Music with a diverse range of young people including First Nations, refugee and migrant background and Australian-born, non-Indigenous…
BONVILLE resident Alan Melbourne is on his way to becoming a successful author. Having written and self-published ‘Veins of Gold’, his memoir of gold prospecting in the hills around Coffs Harbour since the 1980’s, Alan’s third edition is heading…
BORN and raised in Coffs Harbour, Judy Small has enjoyed success and recognition in two diverse fields, as both a folk music singer-songwriter and a lawyer. After graduating from Coffs Harbour High School, Judy moved to Sydney to study…