FOR Medowie residents change is coming but it has been a long wait. The town is about to get its own Ambulance Station. The Medowie community will benefit from a new ambulance station under the NSW Government’s $100 million…
DO you know what to do if someone has a heart attack? Sudden Cardiac Arrest is a leading cause of death in Australia. Every year, around 25,000 people experience a Sudden Cardiac Arrest out of hospital, with a current…
TWO of Port Stephens’ key community support groups have joined forces for the benefit of the Tilligerry Peninsula community, opening ‘Tilli Place’ at Tanilba Bay, in an effort to expand access to much-needed youth mental health and frontline services.…
ON Friday May 7, sailor and boat designer Andrew Buckland will share his intimate knowledge of sailing at the Port Stephens Yacht Club at Soldiers Point. The course shares information on the dynamics and technical side of sails and…
MOTHER’S Day is a time to show our appreciation and love for the mother-figures in our lives, but it can also be an opportunity to make a difference. More and more these days, families are giving Mother’s Day gifts…
HUNTER based health lawyer and Australian Lawyers’ Alliance (ALA) NSW spokesperson on health, Catherine Henry, is disappointed that the parliamentary inquiry brought on by the crisis in regional and rural health will not hold a hearing in the Hunter.…
“NOTHING!” is the standard answer to enquiring parents when they ask their kids what they did at school each day. There was however a very different answer to the same question in the early 1980s from kids coming home…
PAPUA New Guinea are our nearest geographical neighbours, yet some of those residing in the southwestern Pacific country, experience very different living conditions to those which we enjoy. Women can give birth on dirt floored huts in remote villages…
BIRUBI Beach was host to the 2021 NSW Longboard Titles which saw a gigantic Saturday and Sunday of surfing action with all final longboard champions crowned. Local Suellen Goyne of Corlette nabbed two titles for the local surfing contingent…
POLICE are appealing for assistance to locate Allan Bentley, aged 63, who was last seen about 12pm on Monday 26 April 2021 in the Tea Gardens area. He was reported missing to officers from Port Stephens Hunter Police District,…