Recent LETTER: Hands up who’s had a near-miss with an e-bike? The Armed Man – Karl Jenkins’ Mass for Peace to be performed in Port Macquarie on Sunday 9 August Lord Howe Island residents invited to ...

LOWLAND Clearances, the Highland Potato Famine and the Gold Rush era in Australia led to an exodus of Scots to Australian ...

DEAR News Of The Area, WOMEN’S rights are being attacked by One Nation. The official policy platform explicitly states that ...

Watercolour painter Anne Falkner at her exhibition in the new Art Hub at Settlement City. Photo: Supplied. Some of Falkner’s ...

IT was a case of déjà vu when sailors went to sea last Sunday, with strong winds and 2.5- to 3-metre swells topped by ocean ...

DESPITE forecasts of howling winds, the Port Macquarie Sailing Club’s Spring Series race 4 was held in a nor’easter that ...

CHARITIES and not-for-profit organisations in regional NSW with inspiring ideas are encouraged to apply for financial ...

AS the weather warms up and people begin their annual spring clean, NSW Fire and Rescue is urging residents to add fire ...

WITH much of Australia bracing for heightened bushfire danger this summer and authorities calling for early preparations for the season ahead, Transgrid has completed its bushfire prevention ...

TEN years ago, 10 Australians lost their lives during the world’s largest and most catastrophic thunderstorm asthma event.

THEY may have lost the match but the Newcastle Knights won the hearts of a nation after a courageous NRL grand final ...

SEVERAL founding members of Port Macquarie’s St Peter’s Lutheran Church were on hand to celebrate the church’s 40th ...