MIDCOAST Council seeks to provide the community with regularly updated information via a new interactive map on its website. Council’s Director of Engineering and Infrastructure Services, Robert Scott, explained that the map function on the website provides the community with…
FEDERAL Member for Lyne, the Hon. Dr David Gillespie, dropped into the new Myall Coast Radio studio recently, sharing with the community his views on what is happening in the “big house” in Canberra and his take on current issues.…
GROWING your family tree is about knowing yourself and where you come from, as the Tea Gardens Family Research and Local History (TGFRLH) group showed many on Monday, 21 August. A large gathering at the Tea Gardens Library watched as…
EACH year the Port Stephens Suicide Prevention Network (PSSPN) conducts a Remembrance Walk to enable members of our community who have lost a loved one or friend to suicide to come together to commemorate that person and the life that…
PORT Stephens Council have agreed to investigate the viability of a plan to repurpose holiday cabins, which have been replaced by newer ones in Council-owned holiday parks, in order to provide housing options for those individuals and families struggling in…
THE students nominated in this week’s Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Awards have demonstrated positive citizenship not only within their school environment but also in the wider community. This week’s nominees Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth…
AN illegal dumping investigation that began in 2021 has culminated in a guilty verdict and a hefty fine for a local licenced asbestos removal business that dumped contaminated waste in local bushland at Oyster Cove. Port Stephens Council’s Compliance Coordinator…
PORT Stephens Council spent some time in their most recent meeting to review the six month progress report for the four year Delivery Program (2022-2026). The general consensus was that while there is always much work to be done, Port…
ORIGINATING from an idea sparked during a night shift as a paramedic in Nelson Bay, Cars & Coffee In The Bay aims to address the modern challenge of connecting and forming relationships, especially in regional communities. Cars & Coffee is…
JUST a month after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese turned the first sod on Newcastle Airport’s $110 million terminal expansion, the airport has marked another major milestone with the planning approval for development applications (DA) of the first two building projects…