NATIONAL Volunteer Week – May 17 to 23 – is Australia’s largest annual celebration of volunteers, acknowledging their vital and generous contribution to our communities. News Of The Area looked within the locality and had a chat with the…
COFFS Trail Runners is organising Coffs Harbour’s first ever trail-dedicated running event – The End Peak – on August 1. Keelan Birch from Coffs Trail Runners is spearheading this first race, which will start and finish at the iconic…
LOCAL author Karly Lane has released her seventeenth novel, moving from rural Australian stories to the Scottish Highlands. A spokesperson for Allen and Unwin said, “Karly Lane has been an author with Allen and Unwin for 11 years, selling…
ON Wednesday May 12, the Sawtell Historical Society celebrated their new home at the Sawtell Caravan Park with an unveiling of a restored and mounted map of the first subdivision of the area by Osmund (Osie) Sawtell from 1925.…
THE new purpose-built Sawtell Ambulance station on Sawtell road next to the Fire and Rescue station has been officially opened on Friday May 14. NSW Ambulance Assistant Commissioner Clare Lorenzen joined with Coffs Harbour local member Gurmesh Singh and…
ACCESS and inclusion for females participating in sport is set to improve through the $100 million Stronger Country Communities Fun, with Round 4 applications open for communities to apply. The funding has been welcomed by Gurmesh Singh, Member for…
THE Australian Federal Police (AFP) is undertaking a recruitment drive to increase the number of female police officers protecting the country. The AFP plans to recruit hundreds of female officers under a new strategy to help outsmart serious crime…
EMMA Serisier is not half way through her degree in Mathematics and Medicine at the University of Queensland but has already achieved state-wide and national recognition. She won the NSW Rural Young Scientist of the Year Award in 2017,…
A THIRD pizza store is proposed to set up shop in Woolgoolga following the lodgment of a development application for a Domino’s Pizza store in the town. The proposed store is to be located on the corner of Beach…
“YOU wait ages for one bus…then three come along together” might just become redundant as trials of electric, automated transport move forwards. Coffs Harbour transport customers will be the first in the world to climb aboard a fully automated…