MIDCOAST Councillors and senior staff are heading back out to visit 15 communities across October and November. Mayor Claire Pontin said everybody is welcome to attend a Community Conversation, whether they wish to simply listen, ask questions or chat with a senior staff member or Councillor. “We’ll talk to you about plans and projects across […]
The event coincides with the anniversary of the Tea Gardens Library’s official opening 22 years ago.
THE community is invited to celebrate the official opening of the Tea Gardens Library extension. The event coincides with the anniversary of the Tea Gardens Library’s official opening 22 years ago. The celebration will be held on Monday 13 October from 10am to 11am at the Tea Gardens Library, with a free morning tea on […]
LIVING in one of Australia’s fastest growing regional areas, Anna Noon was watching in despair as nature made way for sprawling housing developments. “There was a lot of land clearing happening,” she says of her home at Lake Macquarie in the rapidly-expanding Hunter region. “I knew that was leading to habitat loss, species extinction and […]
The evening opened with a spectacular RAAF flyby.
NEWCASTLE Airport officially opened its new international terminal last Thursday evening, 25 September. Around 300 guests including dignitaries, industry leaders and community representatives gathered to celebrate the expanded terminal. The evening opened with a spectacular RAAF flyby, followed by a Welcome to Country from Worimi Elder Uncle John Ridgeway and a Smoking Ceremony led by […]
BARNARDOS Australia warns that children in regional NSW are bearing the brunt of coercive control, as new crime statistics reveal rural communities are experiencing dramatically higher rates than other areas. The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research quarterly report shows regional NSW recorded 170 coercive control incidents from July 2024 to June 2025 compared […]
Each year between October and April Council works with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water to undertake monitoring in our waterways.
MIDCOAST Council has released its annual Waterway and Catchment Report Card. Water sampling is undertaken across the LGA’s six major catchments – Manning River Estuary, Wallis Lake, Karuah River and The Branch Estuary, Myall Lakes, Kappinghat and Smiths Lake – to check in on their health and allow for a greater understanding of the patterns, […]
Local students assisted in deploying the hotels.
Local students assisted in deploying the hotels. A diver with the seahorse hotels. A RECORD 1200 White’s seahorses have been released in Port Stephens as part of an effort to save the endangered species. They are Australia’s only threatened seahorse and the second most endangered worldwide. The Minns Labor Government is committed to saving the […]
Eric McGrath, Leo Kierans and Roger Dixon display the upgrade.
BULAHDELAH’S helipad has received a new windsock to improve safety, through a joint effort by Bulahdelah Lions Club and the local Bowling Club. The maintenance of the helipad has been taken over in recent times by the Lions Club, after numbers in the local Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service volunteer group dwindled. “It is used frequently […]
MYALL COAST residents are being invited to provide feedback on a proposal to develop an apartment complex on controversial beachside land at Sanderling Avenue, Hawks Nest. An informal drop-in session was held last Wednesday at the Hawks Nest Community Hall by development consultants Mara Consulting, on behalf of developers Core Property Developments and Leric Group. […]
Lifeguards will be on patrol during weekdays from 9am to 5pm during the school holidays at Bennetts Beach, Hawks Nest. Photo: TGHNSLSC.
WITH the weather warming up and the spring school holidays upon us, lifesaving patrols will start to kick off at beaches across the MidCoast soon. Surf lifesaving patrols are back on our beaches with both volunteers and Council’s contracted service provider, Australian Lifeguard Services, keeping swimmers safe these school holidays. Lifeguards will be on patrol […]
