NAMBUCCA Valley Radio (2NVR), the district’s volunteer-run community radio station, is once again making waves on the national stage, with two of its programs named as finalists in the prestigious Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) Awards. After winning the…
SEPTEMBER Equinox marks the arrival of the first day of spring in the Southern Hemisphere. That’s why in the earth’s southern areas, the September Equinox is known as the Spring Equinox. It takes place on Sunday, 22 September, just after…
THE Macksville Medical Centre’s Casey Shorter has been named a finalist in the inaugural Stronger Medicare Awards, gaining recognition for her dedication to improving primary health care in the Nambucca Valley. The Stronger Medicare Awards are part of the Australian…
IT seems that the release schedule for Australian cinema is built around the state to our south, as this week’s slate of family films arrives perfectly timed for Victoria’s school holidays. A heavy favourite for the next great, enduring animated…
IN the 1960s, development applications could be one page long, housing advocates say. Now, documents that run to reams of pages are spending months collecting dust on NSW bureaucrats’ desks, sending waiting times for much-needed homes skyrocketing. Premier Chris Minns…
CHEAPER petrol, lower beer prices and discounts on student debt have all been floated as potential Nationals policy as the party sharpens its pitch ahead of a federal election. Cutting and freezing increases linked to inflation on the fuel excise…
A BADLY entangled pelican has stolen the hearts of its rescuers and the community at large after WIRES volunteers and members of the public saved him from one of the increasing dangers to seabirds – discarded fishing tackle. Fishing line…
SCHOLARSHIP recipient Blake Cusack is in the second year of a full-time Bachelor of Education Degree at Southern Cross University, while also teaching at the Gumbaynggirr Giingana Freedom School in Coffs Harbour. It is the first and only bilingual school…
MOTIVATED to make change, 24 young local people from Bowraville participated in an action-oriented leadership workshop run by OzGREEN’S Youth Leading the World team. They were inspired after being involved in water testing of the Nambucca River with OzGREEN and…
PETER Geddes has penned a memoir that captures the heartbreaking period in Melbourne during the Second World War. Now retired and living in Coffs Harbour, Geddes had been in the media since 1956, writing for provincial, suburban and metropolitan newspapers…