THE Port Stephens Fisheries Institute will receive upgrades to enhance breeding facilities for oysters and finfish, allowing research to support innovation in commercial fisheries. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us. Phone…
PARTS of NSW were rattled by a second earthquake on Saturday, one day after thousands of people felt a similar-sized quake. The earthquake hit Muswellbrook about 4.30 on Saturday according to Geoscience Australia. Advertise with News of The Area today.…
PUBLISHED and aspiring writers gathered for the regular Myall U3A Writers’ Group meeting last Tuesday at Tea Gardens Uniting Church hall, this week hearing from local author Phillip Everett. Self-published writer Ray Keipert and aptly-named bush poet Bob Bush were…
MID-COAST voters will have plenty of choice when they go to the polls on 14 September. A whopping 58 grouped or ungrouped candidates have put their hand up to fill the eleven representative positions on MidCoast Council. Advertise with News…
‘DYING to Know’ events were held across Tea Gardens, Bulahdelah, Gloucester and Taree earlier this month, facilitating important conversations about death and grief. In Tea Gardens, Winter Legal director Emma Rowles spoke about wills, probate and will disputes. Advertise with…
GOLDEN anniversaries are a major accomplishment, and Tea Gardens locals Kay and Barry Jones celebrated theirs with family and friends in style on Friday 24 August. “We’ve done a lot of living, it’s just gone by so quickly,” said Kay…
A NEW path will be drawn for NSW’s maligned forestry industry after years of financial losses, environmental crimes and fierce stand-offs with protesters. Three experts have been tasked to advise the state government on what a future timber industry and…
IMAGINE a cosmic monster, so dense that it devours even light itself. This isn’t science fiction; it’s the terrifying reality of a black hole. These titans of gravity are born from the most spectacular stellar funerals imaginable. When a massive…
AFTER being singled out in a parliamentary speech by Port Stephens State MP Kate Washington earlier this month, Newcastle and Port Stephens Game Fish Club president Troy Radford is seeking to “set the record straight”. Mr Radford, the only individual…
THE biggest earthquake to hit parts of the NSW Hunter region in 50 years could have been triggered by coal mining in the region, a geophysicist says. The 5.0-magnitude quake shook the town of Denman at 12.02pm on Friday, sparking…