TOORMINA Public School’s trivia team has done it again, winning the Rotary Club of Sawtell’s “famous” annual fundraiser. The Toormi Tropics were presented with the Highgrove Bathroom Cup for the highest scoring team as well as the third overall trivia…
THE Great Southern BioBlitz (GSBB) citizen science nature project is back and Coffs Harbour is looking to retain its place as one of the top regions in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2023, the area had the highest number of identified…
A COMMUNITY of surfers in Sawtell has staged a “sit-in” after Council stopped them relocating a picnic table from the top of Boambee Headland to a nearby site with special meaning. Their preferred location is 200 metres away on the…
THE Mid North Coast Local Health District (MNCLHD) has committed to re-opening Hartley House’s fourteen-bed medical ward at the Bellinger River District Hospital, provided “sufficient staff” can be recruited. The commitment follows concerns raised by the Bellinger Health Action Group…
DEAR News Of The Area, ON 30 July I attended an informal ‘Meet the Mayoral Candidates’ at the Laurieton United Services Club. At this meeting there were only two candidates, Adam Roberts and Mark Hornshaw. I later discovered that the…
DEAR News Of The Area, MY wife Becky and I recently attended a “meet the candidates” meeting at Port Bowling Club. The format of the meeting allowed us to get a good idea of the policies and personalities involved from…
MACQUARIE University’s Widening Participation Unit (WPU) is hosting a Community Science Night in Coffs Harbour on Thursday, 19 September. This free event is for all local schools, students of all ages and their parents/carers, and is aimed at anyone interested…
PINK Silks Trust has donated $27,000 worth of equipment to Coffs Harbour Health Campus’ loan pool for palliative care patients. It includes two electric nursing care beds, two bedside rails, four wheelchairs, two foldable walking frames, two mobile shower chairs,…
AROUND 500 public sector nurses and midwives in Coffs Harbour joined a statewide twelve-and-a-half-hour strike for improved pay on Tuesday. The renewed strike action comes after demands for a fifteen percent wage increase were knocked back by the State Government.…
NATIONAL Landcare Facilitator Melanie Tyas is guest speaker at Coffs Harbour Regional Landcare AGM on 18 September. A resident of Bellingen, Melanie is well known to Coffs Harbour as being a “friend” of CHRL for many years. Advertise with News…