MIDCOAST Council’s additional $7.5 million local road upgrade program is in full swing, with work to begin at several new locations this month. “The $7.5 million road upgrade program is helping accelerate improvements to our local road network,” said Executive…
A TOTAL of $648,000 has been announced for the Nambucca Valley Phoenix across two major projects. The community operated not-for-profit will receive $347,000 through the NSW Government’s Stronger Country Communities Fund for an accessible carpark and entry to the Phoenix…
COASTAL Claymakers’ annual Empty Bowls fundraiser – an international grassroots movement by artists and crafts people around the world to raise money to feed the hungry in their community – raised $1,100 at its Sawtell event. The recent Empty Bowls…
MARINE Rescue Lemon Tree Passage Base received a phone call this weekend about a fire on Bulls Island at Lemon Tree Passage. The Rural Fire Service (RFS) was notified and activated, with support from a Marine Rescue boat crew on…
NAMBUCCA Valley gave a helpful welcome to world traveller Michael Kozok from Poland who is making his way unmotorised from Steep Point in WA to Cape York in QLD, in celebration of gaining his Australian citizenship. Leaving Stuarts Point on…
TAXI drivers hear a lot as they drive their passengers around, and one local driver on the Coffs Coast has heard many times that people are concerned about the proposed Coffs Harbour Bypass bringing a lot of extra traffic to…
A COMMUNITY meeting has been scheduled to inform interested parties about the proposed development of a Helipad adjacent to the Anna Bay Lawn Cemetery. Hundreds of people turned out to protest this development when it was first put to the…
ROADWORK is planned for a 3.6km section of The Lakes Way, Boolambayte, from Sawpit Road towards the Pacific Highway. The upgrade will include widening the road and improving stormwater drainage. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it…
THE Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has granted independent low-cost carrier Bonza with its Air Operator Certificate. With Coffs Harbour being one of the airline’s seventeen chosen destinations, residents are keen to hear when ticket sales will open. Advertise with…
ON Saturday morning of 14 January, locally renowned Indigenous artist and educator, Elaine Carmady, along with her family, friends and interested visitors, welcomed everyone for a traditional ceremony celebrating the information signage recently installed at the park foreshore at Stuarts…