Melinda Mwanza, Staffan Andler and Tom Mwanza.
LOCAL musician and endurance runner Tom Mwanza completed an extraordinary 100-kilometre run from Hallidays Point to Port Macquarie on Saturday, raising funds to build a home for five orphaned children in his hometown of Kalulushi, Zambia. Originally from Zambia and now based on the Mid North Coast, Tom set out to raise $100,000 through his […]
Contact Crime Stoppers to report criminal activity. Photo: crimestoppersact.com.au.
CRIME Stoppers and NSW Police are urging the community to continue to speak up and report crime. This encouragement follows News Of The Area’s report last week about an apparent increase in youth crime in Wauchope. Residents say there has been a lack of police action in response to their multiple calls. Crime Stoppers and […]
Tom, Doug, Fran, Kew Country Club General Manager Dean Noble, Community at 3 Patron Staffan Andler (Patron), Glenn, Community at 3 Chairman Theo Hazelgrove, and Member for Port Macquarie Rob Dwyer (Community at 3 Patron).
REPRESENTATIVES from Camden Haven Community at 3 and Kew Country Club have met to discuss a potential joint venture aimed at addressing homelessness in the Camden Haven region. The proposal involves applying for grant funding to build several relocatable homes that would provide temporary accommodation for people in need. Kew Country Club has already played […]
DPIRD Senior Fisheries Management Officer Travis Morgan with Minister for Agriculture Tara Moriarty ahead of a FAD deployment. Photo: supplied, DPIRD.
DPIRD Senior Fisheries Management Officer Travis Morgan with Minister for Agriculture Tara Moriarty ahead of a FAD deployment. Photo: supplied, DPIRD. Three FADs have been deployed off Crowdy Head, Laurieton and Port Macquarie. Image, Google Maps. FISH Aggregating Devices (FADs) have now been deployed along the state’s coastline, giving recreational fishers a better chance of […]
Groundswell Collective volunteers have planted 16 tiny forests in schools and parks across NSW.
LIVING in one of Australia’s fastest growing regional areas, Anna Noon was watching in despair as nature made way for sprawling housing developments. “There was a lot of land clearing happening,” she says of her home at Lake Macquarie in the rapidly-expanding Hunter region. “I knew that was leading to habitat loss, species extinction and […]
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Penny Sharpe tours the site with Solidcast owners Will and Sarah Hynes.
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Penny Sharpe tours the site with Solidcast owners Will and Sarah Hynes. Minister for Climate Change and Energy Penny Sharpe tours the site with Solidcast owners Will and Sarah Hynes. Precast walls in use. Photo: Solidcast website. WAUCHOPE-BASED Solidcast will expand production of its patented low-carbon concrete panels after […]
Camden Haven High School’s newly graduated Year 12 class. Photo: CHHS.
THEIR schoolyard days may be over but Camden Haven High School’s Year 12 Class of 2025 is firmly focussed on the upcoming High School Certificate (HSC). The students’ achievements were celebrated at their graduation on Thursday 25 September ahead of their official “study holiday”. Deputy Principals Deb Gilbert and Sharon Westman shared with the school […]
The Camden Haven and Wauchope Bonny-Hills clubs were represented at the Mid North Coast Branch’s official launch at Macksville-Scotts Head. Photo: CHSLSC.
Members of Camden Haven Surf Life Saving Club raised the flags on Grants Beach on 27 September. Photo: CHSLSC. The Camden Haven and Wauchope Bonny-Hills clubs were represented at the Mid North Coast Branch’s official launch at Macksville-Scotts Head. Photo: CHSLSC. THE iconic red and yellow flags are up at Lake Cathie Beach, Rainbow Beach […]
BARNARDOS Australia warns that children in regional NSW are bearing the brunt of coercive control, as new crime statistics reveal rural communities are experiencing dramatically higher rates than other areas. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research quarterly report shows regional NSW recorded 170 coercive control incidents from July 2024 to June 2025 compared […]
FOUR months after the devastating May floods on the Mid North Coast there is still a lot of work to do. Susie George, Executive Director Regional Delivery with the NSW Reconstruction Authority, has been on the ground in Nambucca Heads, Kempsey and Taree this week. ”The focus now is on getting out to people through […]
