SUMMER’S arrival is being celebrated by members of the Combine Street Community Garden through the Coffs Regional Community Gardens Association (CRCGA) on Sunday 26 November from 5pm. “Our pizza and music evening celebrates the start to summer gardening and the…
NSW PREMIER Chris Minns, Environment Minister Penny Sharpe, and Agriculture and Regional NSW Minister Tara Moriarty visited Coffs Harbour last Friday, November 3. They were initially at Bongil Bongil National Park to announce the establishment of three advisory panels to…
ONE of Coffs Harbour’s most visited natural assets will have its biodiversity improved as a partnership of key local agencies works to rejuvenate the bush. Forestry Corporation NSW (FCNSW) has partnered with Envite Environment and the Gumbaynggirr Ranger team of…
THE National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU ) has welcomed the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission’s quashing of the approval of the Southern Cross University (SCU) Enterprise Agreement 2021. The union claimed that the proposed agreement stripped core conditions…
POP in to peruse potters at work during the popular Australian Ceramics Open Studios event taking place over the weekend of 11 and 12 November 2023. A nationwide event, creatives on the Mid North Coast are keenly welcoming visitors into…
URUNGA War Memorial is one of thirteen historical monuments across the state benefiting from repair and preservation work thanks to $124,239 of funding under Round 1 of the NSW Government’s Community War Memorials Fund. Bellingen Shire Council will receive $10,000…
AFTER two postponements because of high winds, a small band of eighteen volunteers finally completed the fifth, and final, National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) koala survey of Bongil Bongil National Park for this year on the night of October…
WALKING 900 kilometres from Byron to Sydney, Jonathan Woods is on a mission to raise $5,000 for the Cancer Council. He’s chosen a coastal route and is traversing beaches he describes as “undiscovered gems”. Advertise with News of The Area…
THE NORTH Coast Chapter of the Fellowship of First Fleeters, a social group comprising descendants from the First Fleet, hosted an historical talk at its latest bi-monthly meeting. Held at Red Rock, the guest speaker for the day was Dee…
SHERRY, a song forever associated with the distinctive voice of Frank Valli will be blasted out across the Coffs Coast, when a local singer is found to play the lead part in a production of Jersey Boys planned for May…