MORE than 1200 senior students from seventeen local high schools attended the annual Coffs Coast Career Connections expo last week. They were able to tap into information, knowledge and activities provided by 64 ‘career champions’ and learn about job and…
PREPARATION for building the bridges along the Coffs Harbour Bypass took a significant step forward as the first 260 Super T concrete girder was lifted into place on Monday morning 20 May. Four more Super T girders got lifted in…
WITH the first humpback whales of the season now being spotted, an expanded team of specialised rescuers are poised and ready to launch as tens of thousands of majestic humpback whales begin their annual migration along the NSW coastline. The…
LOCALS gave big at the Karuah RSL’s Charity Day on Saturday 18 May, this year in partnership with ‘Got Your Back Sista’, a group dedicated to helping women escape and survive domestic violence (DV). “Got Your Back Sista helps so…
MACRO Muster, a waterbug data collection and citizen science project run by Bellingen-based environmental charity OzGREEN, has a fresh approach for its sixth iteration. “We’re doing something a little different this time than our previous musters,” OzGREEN event coordinator Sam…
THE Coffs Coast community will soon see locally-produced concrete girders making the trip from Macksville to Coffs Harbour where they will form part of fifteen of the seventeen bridges on the Coffs Harbour Bypass alignment. Transport for NSW Director Region…
LOCAL Land Services is urging farmers across the Hunter and North Coast regions to inspect pastures and forage crops for Fall Armyworm (FAW). This insect pest has now started to cause significant and rapid pasture damage from the Lower Macleay…
MORE than 200 people attended events in Port Macquarie and Coffs Harbour last weekend to hear about the benefits community Independents can bring to regional electorates. Phil Haines from Voices4Indi, and Caz Heise, former independent candidate for Cowper, addressed full…
THE CWA of NSW annual State Conference began in Coffs Harbour on May 6 at C.ex Coffs, with the four-day event attracting more than 700 members and delegates from across the state. The conference was opened by the Patron of…
RURAL landholders across Port Stephens are invited to share their views on proposed changes to water laws that would give property owners and farmers improved access to water for firefighting. The State Government has put forward changes that aim to…