COFFS City Orchestra will present a classical springtime concert at the Harbourside Markets on Sunday 22 September. The beachside performance will be conducted by local musician and artistic director Tim Egan. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth…
THE Australian Children’s Content Summit held in Coffs Harbour in August brought together 250 delegates from ten countries. Created by Emmy Award winning SLR Productions’ CEO Suzanne Ryan, the event was held at Pacific Bay Resort. Advertise with News of…
A HAZARD reduction burn in the Wedding Bells State Forest was lit this week to protect neighbouring properties from summer bushfires and safeguard Woolgoolga Mountain Bike Club infrastructure. Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) is undertaking the 3000 hectare burn, reducing…
COFFS Harbour residents are being encouraged to enrol as volunteers in the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) so they can take part in nighttime koala surveys in Bongil Bongil National Park. This long-running and popular citizen science program will…
MORE than half of the Mid North Coast’s low-income households are going without meals due to cost-of-living pressures, according to a report commissioned by the NSW Council Of Social Services (NCOSS). The report, titled “Impossible Choices: Decisions NSW communities shouldn’t…
VOTERS across the Coffs Harbour LGA will have their say on the future of the Jetty Foreshores on Saturday as they head to the polls for local government elections. Along with electing a new council, residents and ratepayers will be…
AT 6pm tomorrow, 14 September, candidates in the City of Coffs Harbour and Bellingen Shire council elections will switch from meet and greet mode to watch and wait. Ballot paper counting begins just as their posters, banners and corflutes start…
MAYOR Steve Allan will seek another term leading Bellingen Shire as voters go to the polls on Saturday for local government elections. Mr Allan, running as an Independent, was elected Mayor in 2021, successfully overcoming incumbent Dominic King (Greens) and…
THE Zonta Club of Coffs Harbour Inc. held a well-attended Awards Dinner in the Rainbow Room at C.ex Coffs last week. Six finalists from the Zonta International Young Women in Public Affairs (YWPA) award program were recognised for their exceptional…
THE 110th anniversary of the Australian Red Cross was marked in Woolgoolga with both Wiigulga Sports Complex and the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple lit up in red. The Woolgoolga Red Cross Branch hosted a party on the anniversary day, 13…