Supermoons are the closest to earth. Photo Greg Higgins.
Supermoons are the closest to earth. Photo Greg Higgins. The moon was 30 percent brighter than normal. Photo: Sis Higgins. SKYWATCHERS across the region looked to the heavens last Tuesday night as the biggest and brightest moon of 2025 rose over the horizon. Amateur astronomer Dennis Hughes explained to News Of The Area why the […]
Members of the TGHN SLSC accept the board from the Glennie Project. Photo: TGHN SLSC.
Members of the TGHN SLSC accept the board from the Glennie Project. Photo: TGHN SLSC. The new board is currently on display in the surf club foyer. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. LIFE savers of the Tea Gardens Hawks Nest Surf Life Saving Club (TGHN SLSC) were presented with a special new rescue board by Louise and […]
Trauma Teddies adorn this Tea Gardens Red Cross display, which also features a few NOTA articles. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. An article showing the 40th anniversary of the Tea Gardens Red Cross in 1975. The group turned 90 this year. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. Family History Group photos show industries and leisure facilities once in the Myall. […]
A NEW program has been launched to support local recovery efforts after the devastating May 2025 floods. Funded by the NSW Reconstruction Authority, the program aims to strengthen the region’s ability to recover through community-led action, partnerships, practical support and the funding of a Community Recovery Officer at MidCoast Council. MidCoast Council’s Director of Liveable […]
The fig’s enormous branches splayed across Marine Drive, hindering traffic. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. The main trunk has a rotted cavity and several dead branches. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. All this was precariously suspended over pedestrians’ and motorists’ heads. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. PEDESTRIANS and motorists were miraculously spared when a massive fig tree […]
Owen and Jan Holbert with Probus President Barb Smith. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe.
Owen and Jan Holbert with Probus President Barb Smith. Photo: Thomas O’Keefe. Some of the children at Romdoul school receiving donated bikes. Photo: Australia for Cambodia. One of several water pumps installed in the village thanks to local donations.Photo: Australia for Cambodia. OVER 80 members and guests turned out at the final meeting of the […]
ARTISTS and supporters of the MU3A Art Show were roundly thanked at a special morning tea on Monday 3 November. The show, held a month earlier in Hawks Nest Community Hall, was the largest and most successful to date, with over 500 people passing through the doors over the sunny long weekend. “The annual Art […]
This fire started very close to the road, in a drainage gully. Photo: NACCAi.
This fire started very close to the road, in a drainage gully. Photo: NACCAi. Firefighters were able to extinguish the fire thanks to locals raising the alarm. Photo: NACCAi. ARSON is the suspected cause of several recent fires in the North Arm Cove area, which have followed a pattern of regularity that locals find difficult […]
Kate Washington MP and Jenny Aitchison, Minister for Regional Transport and Minister for Roads, with Maritime officers in Port Stephens.
Kate Washington MP and Jenny Aitchison, Minister for Regional Transport and Minister for Roads, with Maritime officers in Port Stephens. The three locations for the trial. Photo: NSW Gov. THE locations for a powered vessel exclusion zone trial in Port Stephens have been announced. The trial will run from 24 December 2025 to 26 January […]
PESKY plastic tags on loaves of bread, tiny soy sauce fish bottles and detachable bottle tops are all being binned by a state government battling a mounting rubbish crisis. The ambitious clean-up is part of an expanded ban by NSW coinciding with the start of National Recycling Week. The NSW Plastic Plan 2.0, will see […]
