STAFF from Tomaree Community Hospital gathered at Nelson Bay Marina last Thursday, to raise awareness of their fight for fair pay and working conditions. It was the result of negotiations with the NSW Government again failing to result in a…
CHISHOLM’S Laurence Antcliff has been announced as the Liberal Party candidate to contest the seat of Paterson in the next federal election. Mr Antcliff, who grew up in Anna Bay, is the Apprentice Operations Manager at the Housing Industry Association.…
THE year 2024 signals a milestone in the life of my family. It was November 1974 when my wife Ella and I drove into Nelson Bay for me to take up a position as a teacher at the local high…
AN initiative to improve physical and mental wellbeing for young girls while simultaneously providing an opportunity to improve connections with their Dads, is being offered in Port Stephens. Daughters & Dads Active and Empowered is a program developed by Professor…
LARGE-SCALE housing proposals will be allowed to avoid council as Australia’s most expensive housing market gets worse under decade-low approvals. From early 2025, housing developments of about 100 homes in greater Sydney will be able to bypass council approval and…
A BEAUTIFUL Life Funerals opened its new Morpeth premises a little over a month ago and is now serving the communities of Morpeth, Dungog, Port Stephens and surrounding areas. Owner Sharon Tolcher said it has been incredible to witness the…
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD Dakoda Haack-Ross must be thinking “How easy is this”. With just his third cast with a soft plastic off the beach at Salamander Bay, Dakoda hooked and landed his first flathead. “Nothing to it,” he reckoned. “What’s all the…
REX Airlines will keep flying from Port Macquarie Airport to Sydney for at least another seven months, after the Albanese Government extended an $80m lifeline to the regional airline. It has also granted early access to entitlements for retrenched employees.…
A DISPUTE has arisen between the strata committee and owners of the Carindale apartment complex in Nelson Bay over the planned removal of a gum tree. The tree, which is close to a building at the rear of the property,…
PORT Stephens Council will receive $12,672.00 for conservation works to the Knitting Circle Memorial at East Seaham. The Knitting Circle Memorial features a ten metre-high flagpole accompanied by a low wall displaying a marble plaque dedicated to “the boys who…