TWO days after prolific local children’s author Carmen Allen launched her latest book, it was on Amazon’s “best-seller” list. “Molly’s New Treasure” is book number five in a series. It follows Princess Molly and her friends as they set out on the adventure of a lifetime: a royal treasure hunt across a mysterious island with […]

IMAGINE waking one morning to find the sky torn open by a glowing fireball racing towards Earth. It sounds like science fiction, but it isn’t. Our planet sits in a cosmic shooting gallery. Asteroids and comets – leftovers from the birth of the solar system – cruise through space, and sometimes their paths cross ours. […]

THE holidays are upon us and the good news for those who are hoping to catch a fish is that conditions are perfect. The beaches are alive with salmon, whiting and winter bream. Mullet are travelling north on their annual breeding cycle in huge numbers accompanied by a few predatory sharks. Mostly Grey Nurses, the […]

TO our many holiday visitors, a warm welcome to the Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Park (PS-GLMP). In place since 2007 the park has been designed to protect sensitive habitat and reduce pressure on all creatures inside the boundaries. Shrouded by skepticism in the early years of its existence, the park and the restrictions imposed have […]

Sinners is a new genre film from Creed and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler, starring his go-to guy Michael B. Jordan. When twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both played by Jordan) return to their Southern US hometown after years away, they hope they can leave their troubled past behind them. Their homecoming is soured when […]