NEW targets to halve deaths and reduce serious injuries by 30 percent on NSW roads by 2030 have underpinned the NSW Government 2026 Road Safety Action Plan to reduce the road toll. “One death is a death too many…
GREAT Lakes local Stephen Attkins is running as an Independent candidate for the seat of Lyne in the upcoming Federal Election. For the past twenty years, Steve has lived in the area with his family after purchasing the Great…
SUBMISSIONS for the Bulahdelah Highway Centre Planning Proposal have been noted and acknowledged by the MidCoast Council. Following the recent Council meeting on 27 April 2022, the MidCoast Council noted a number of submissions made in regards to the…
MORE than 200 new frontline police will hit the ground in communities all over the state over the coming weeks following the recent Attestation ceremony in Goulburn. Port Stephens Hunter Police District is looking forward to the community getting…
WHILE the rest of the country celebrated Australia Day on January 27, 1969, Jennefer Ross-Henry was farewelling her husband, Brian Geoffrey Walker, as he left to fight in Vietnam with 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (5RAR). Tragically, Brian was…
Hawks Nest Accident ON the morning of Saturday 23 April the Pindimar/Tea Gardens RFS was called out to a motor vehicle accident on Mungo Brush Road. A four-wheel-drive had hit a power pole snapping it off near the base.…
MIDCOAST Council will commence its annual coastal bitou bush eradication program on 9 May, starting at Crowdy Head around to Harrington Breakwall, then targeting the following sites along the coast: Boomerang Point, Bald Head, Cellito Beach/Sandbar, Bennetts Beach, Jimmys…
BRUCE Murray, the President of the Hawks Nest Tea Gardens Progress Association, marched for the first time this ANZAC Day with the Tea Gardens Returned and Services League (RSL) of Australia sub-Branch. Bruce told News Of The Area he…
THE Greens announced their ‘Aged Care for All’ policy in Bulahdelah last week, which they say would see an additional $6 billion a year invested in aged care, to provide high quality, safe and timely care to meet the…
THE Coalition claims that Hunter businesses and workers are under threat from Labor’s emissions policies. Senator Matthew Canavan, Nationals Candidate for Hunter, James Thomson, and Liberal Candidate for Paterson, Brooke Vitnell, have called on Labor to urgently explain the…