A MID NORTH COAST Zumba Gold charity event held at the Macksville Ex-Services Club has raised more than $1100 for the Melanoma Institute. Around 50 people attended the fundraiser event last Saturday afternoon which was the sixth organised by local…
THE fight over native forests shows no sign of abating with conservationists continuing to claim that areas marked for the Great Koala National Park (GKNP) are being overly targeted by logging operations. Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) and the State Government…
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SCORES of unsolved homicides in one state could be in part the work of serial killers and require an overarching special investigation, an MP says. Some 67 women have gone missing never to be found or died in an unsolved…
MORE than 200 people were at the Jetty Beach House for the Coffs Harbour launch of Carolyn (Caz) Heise’s “Caz4Cowper” election campaign. Although the next Federal election can be held as late as 27 September, 2025, most pundits expect it…
THE Coffs Coast Branch of the National Parks Association (NPA) is on the lookout for a filmmaker to highlight the natural wonders of the region. The documentary-style film has a budget of $20,000. “Nature’s beauty surrounds us here on the…
ENTRIES for the Coffs Coast Art Prize will close on Tuesday, 29 October. Prize winners for the Major Award for an entry in any medium ($3000 sponsored by Coffs Harbour Arts Council), along with awards for Painting ($1000 also sponsored…
WITH the findings of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veterans Suicides released recently, the well-being and mental health of the veteran community is very much in the spotlight. Camaraderie and connection are considered among the central tenets to well-being…
COFFS COAST cyclist Robbie Hay has stepped up to October’s Great Cycle Challenge, raising funds for childhood cancer. At 4am on Saturday morning (October 26) he’s setting off from his home in North Coffs Harbour with the Sydney Opera House…
IN May this year News Of The Area reported that researcher and author Trevor Lynch, the man who produced the book on servicemen and women of the Nambucca district in the First World War, was beginning work on a Second…