The Tesla continues its lonely orbit around the Sun.
ELON’S always in the news isn’t he. Well, he goes way back! In February 2018, the world paused to watch a rocket launch. That’s not unusual. What was unusual was the payload: a cherry-red Tesla Roadster with a mannequin in a spacesuit behind the wheel. The idea came from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, whose company […]
‘Affordable Housing’, by Pete Gailey, 2025 Sculpture/3D category winner. Photo: supplied/Pete Gailey. ‘The Never Never Bejewelled’, by Coco Elder, 2025 Landscape category winner. Photo: supplied/Coc Elder. ONE of the region’s favourite art competitions, the EJ Mantova Art Prize, is again open for entries with the hope this year will bring yet another record-breaking number of […]
MACKSVILLE local Jessie Weaver will celebrate the final stretch of a mammoth fundraising effort on Saturday as she completes the World’s Greatest Shave surrounded by her Norco AgriSolutions colleagues and the community. Jessie said her involvement with the Greatest Shave has been 10 years in the making, during which she has grown her hair long […]
CWA Bellingen Branch member Meaghan Burkett reviews the women’s survey results with daughter Xanthe. Photo: supplied.
THE Country Women’s Association Bellingen Branch has released the results of a survey into the needs of local women. Women of Bellingen and surrounding areas were invited to share their experiences, challenges, hopes and ideas, with the CWA planning to use the results to inform their work. CWA member and survey coordinator Meaghan Burkett, was […]
FOUR-YEAR funding is being made available to local organisations to combat the impact of priority weeds, updating a previously annual grant program. The new $40.7 million NSW Weeds Action Program (WAP) is a key component of the NSW Government’s Biosecurity Action Plan, with funding being provided to 97 Local Control Authorities (LCA). Minister for Agriculture […]
Nambucca Valley Mayor Gary Lee and Director Engineering Services David Moloney at the Business and Civil Networking Event.
Nambucca Valley Mayor Gary Lee and Director Engineering Services David Moloney at the Business and Civil Networking Event. Local businesses and civil construction workers flocked to Dawkins Park on Thursday to hear remediation project updates from Nambucca Valley Council, See Civil, Alliance Construction Group, and Ghella/RIX Group joint venture. AROUND 50 business people and civil […]
Bridge Construction and Maintenance apprentice Maddi Ormsby. Photo: NSW Gov.
SEVENTY-ONE new apprentices and trainees are kicking off their careers at Transport for NSW worksites this month. From filling potholes to rebuilding flood‑damaged roads, planning major works and maintaining heavy vehicles, the new Roads Maintenance and Resilience recruits will join and support frontline teams strengthening the state’s transport network. Following group inductions in Wollongong, Newcastle […]
Jane Bettison is helping local women to connect and make friends.
AS INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day is celebrated, one Mid North Coast woman is quietly making a difference by creating a space where local women can feel welcome, safe and connected. Jane Bettison is the founder of Sassy Sistahs, a grassroots social group for local women that has grown into a thriving community of more than 700 […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THEIR mothers were young and naive when they left Australia to marry ISIS fighters. They were barely children themselves. Allowing them to live in filth and squalor is a breeding ground for radicalisation, let alone shortening their lives due to malnourishment and disease. They are Australian citizens and above all […]
