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Health

Time to get pushy in support of Lifeline

LIFELINE North Coast is urging individuals, families, schools, businesses, and community groups between Yamba and Nambucca Heads to sign up for the Push-Up Challenge, Australia’s largest mental health and fitness event. Each year, hundreds of thousands of Australians take up the challenge to complete a set number of push-ups that represent the number of lives […]

Regional

Mixed stats for homelessness on Mid North Coast

THE Mid North Coast has had mixed results in the 2025 Street Count, the NSW Government’s sixth annual count of people sleeping rough. Counts of homeless people sleeping rough on a single evening were completed in local government areas across the state between 4 February and 26 February 2025. Half of the counts took place […]

National

Oxley MP represents region at Anzac Cove

OXLEY MP Michael Kemp joined thousands of others at Anzac Cove in Turkey to mark the solemn anniversary of Anzac Day. Mr Kemp described attending the 110th Anniversary Anzac Day Dawn Service at Gallipoli as a “bucket list experience” and one of the greatest honours of his life. “Standing at Gallipoli as the sun rose […]

Community

Friendship flourishes with local garden clubs

The Stuarts Point and District Garden Club crew. The ‘trading table’ was loaded with a great variety of plants and produce. Stunning views across to South West Rocks. The restaurant was at near full capacity for the private event. STUARTS Point and District Garden Club members enjoyed a “Friendship Day” with similar groups on the […]

Local News

Nambucca Valley Mayor writes to Electoral Commission over polling station accessibility

MAYOR Gary Lee, on behalf of Nambucca Valley Council’s Disability Access and Inclusion Committee, wrote to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to raise issues regarding access to polling booths for disabled voters in the days before Saturday’s Federal election. Mayor Lee told NOTA he received a response just two days later, leaving him satisfied that […]

Business

Businesses Unite To Support GKNP

THE National Parks Association of NSW (NPA), World Wildlife Fund Australia (WWF) and the Australian Climate Biodiversity Foundation have co-hosted an evening seminar at the Jetty Beach House to highlight local business support for the GKNP. The organisers said the GKNP will offer incredible benefits for businesses, communities, and the important koala populations in the […]

Community

Full steam ahead for upgrades to Bowraville Theatre

UPGRADES to the historic Bowraville Theatre have moved ahead with a new disabled-access lift, lighting console and construction of a disabled access walkway well underway. Last year in December, NOTA reported that the project to upgrade the theatre with the installation of dressing-rooms and disabled access, was in danger of being abandoned by Nambucca Valley […]

Community

Opportunity to meet Nambucca Valley councillors in Bowraville

THE Bowraville Chamber of Commerce is hosting an opportunity for residents to meet their Nambucca Valley councillors. The morning tea event will be held on Monday 12 May from 11am at the Bowraville Recreation Club (Sports Hub). “Whilst this event is being called ‘Meet the Mayor’, it is actually an opportunity for members of the […]

Local News

Macksville Medical Centre celebrates 50 years in Wallace Street

MACKSVILLE Medical Centre is celebrating 50 years of operation on Wallace Street this month. Lesa Hennessey remembers being rushed to the Centre, covered in blood and glass in the back of her grandma’s car, when she was five years old. She’d fallen over a milk jug at the family farm and glass was embedded in […]

Event, Regional

Festival to celebrate Gumbaynggirr connections with Country

THE fourth annual “Buluunggal” festival led by Gumbaynggirr custodian Uncle Bud Marshall will take place at the V-Wall, Nambucca Heads on Saturday, 10 May from 10.30am to 3.30pm. The festival celebrates the arrival of buluunggal, or mullet, in the Nambucca River. “Everyone is invited to come join us again to celebrate the ongoing significance of […]