SOVEREIGN Place Town Centre will come alive with Twilight Tastings 2026, bringing together fine food, wine, beer, and live entertainment – and a serving of community spirit. The free event will be held from 3 pm to 7 pm on Saturday, 5 September, offering visitors the opportunity to sample products from local and national producers, […]
NEW South Wales Council of Social Service (NCOSS) has welcomed the gambling reform package announced by the Minns Government, saying the changes include practical measures that will reduce gambling harm in NSW. However, the peak body for the state’s social and community services warns that the package leaves out important measures recommended by the Independent […]
Camden Haven Band entertaining the crowd at Laurieton Markets.
Camden Haven Band entertaining the crowd at Laurieton Markets. Kurtis Lavender with the new portable drum kit. CAMDEN Haven Concert Band offered the perfect way to while away an hour in the Spring-like sunshine for patrons at Laurieton Markets on Sunday, 30 August. Established in 1995, the band was incorporated in 2002 to include the […]
Cane toads pose a risk to the Mid North Coast. Photo: ToadScan.
CAMDEN Haven residents are being urged to remain alert for cane toads after a live animal was confirmed at Lakewood. The NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) received a report from a member of the public on 27 August, with photographs provided allowing officers to confirm the animal was a cane toad. […]
Katherine Asquith and her son Jacob Asquith. Photo: Rachael Thorpe.
LAURIETON residents and business owners were appalled to discover hate symbols had been scrawled in a telephone box and on several signs in the town last week. Concerned that the graffiti could cause distress, local business owner Jacob Asquith armed himself with cleaning supplies and removed the offending symbols himself. “They were offensive,” he said. […]
THE question of whether elderly Australians with serious, life-limiting illness are getting timely access to palliative care has been raised by Palliative Care Australia (PCA). The ABC’s Four Corners investigation The Waiting Game put the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT), an automated decision-making system used to assess older Australians seeking government-funded aged care, under a spotlight. […]
Additional funding will allow the RFDS to do more for regional, rural and remote communities. Photo: RFDS.
THE NSW government is investing $15 million to support the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) to continue providing its lifesaving services across NSW. Part of the 2026-27 State Budget, the funding will enable the RFDS to deliver primary health care, dental and mental health services, retrievals, and patient and clinician transport in regional, rural and […]
CAMDEN Haven artists and community groups are among nine recipients to receive funding through Arts Mid North Coast’s SEED Grants Program. The grants support community-driven and place-based creative projects, with 24 applications received for the latest funding round. The applications demonstrated the ingenuity of regional creatives and their desire to connect with their communities, according […]
Member for Oxley, Michael Kemp, welcomed Port Macquarie and Kempsey’s 10 new probationary constables this week. Images: Supplied.
Member for Oxley, Michael Kemp, welcomed Port Macquarie and Kempsey’s 10 new probationary constables this week. Images: Supplied. Member for Oxley, Michael Kemp, welcomed Port Macquarie and Kempsey’s 10 new probationary constables this week. Images: Supplied. TEN new probationary constables have commenced duties across the Mid North Coast this week, with six […]
The two-day meeting called for forests to be valued for their own sake. Photo: Bob Brown Foundation.
AUSTRALIAN national environment and climate groups, and regional and grassroots forest organisations, recently gathered to collaborate on a national campaign to protect native forests by ending logging, clearing and conversion. Forest campaigners from Western Australia, ACT, Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and Queensland called on federal and state governments for: – An immediate end to native forest […]
