A SURVEY to close the six-month community consultation period for the Woolgoolga Bike Lane opened on Monday 13 February and closes Sunday 26 February 2023. To be found on the City Of Coffs Harbour (CoCH) website, the survey invites the…
PORT STEPHENS Council is expected to make a determination next month over the contentious use of a Swan Bay holiday village as a rehabilitation facility. The site, at the Fisherman’s Village on Moffats Road in Swan Bay, is currently…
FOR the third time in less than a year, Australian Community Media (ACM) publications across the state have utilised their front pages to appeal to government to support their struggling regional newspapers. In this latest iteration, dozens of ACM papers…
ON Sunday 12 February, residents at Valla Beach forsook their regular mid-morning activities to attend a training session for the area’s Community Defib Project, followed by an official launch of the program. By 10am the Community Hall, located at the…
CONSERVATIONISTS have been warning for a while that current logging practices could lead to contamination of drinking water supplies. With the Clarence Valley Council asking Coutts Crossing residents to boil their tap water and residents across the Clarence Valley being…
DETECTIVES from the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad have charged a man following an investigation into online grooming in the state’s Hunter region. Last month, detectives from the Sex Crime Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) began engaging online…
IN the early hours of Friday 3 February the Bulahdelah Rural Fire Service (RFS) Brigade was called to a structural fire on Bulahdelah Way. On arrival the old convent next to the Catholic Church was well alight, threatening buildings on…
THE Dorrigo Koala Alliance, a group of concerned locals and conservationists, is horrified at Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) logging currently underway in Moonpar State Forest. The Alliance says the forest contains the best quality remaining koala habitats on the…
TO many Australians, 14 February is only notable for being Valentine’s Day but to a group of Aussies who go by the title ‘Nashos’ the day has a very different significance. The day, 14 February, is officially known as National…
NELSON Bay Police are appealing for public assistance as an investigation continues into acts of vandalism in the Port Stephens area. Throughout December 2022 and January 2023, numerous buildings and infrastructure were vandalised with graffiti in the Nelson Bay CBD…