28 Jun 07 | ALL of Port Macquarie's junior basketball teams remain in contention for semi-final berths after a weekend of mixed fortune in the Northern Junior League's penultimate round at the Port Macquarie Indoor Sports Stadium.
28 Jun 07 | FRESH meat! And, it's junior Hastings Valley Vikings' utility and club sponsor Country Fresh Meats' butcher Tom Hetherington who is hoping to carve up long-time rivals Port Macquarie Pirates tomorrow at Oxley Oval.
28 Jun 07 | By ROD THOMPSON
OUTSTANDING performances in the past month have shot Port Macquarie Rifle Club captain Neil Drain into the NSW Country team.
Drain, who registered a perfect score of 100/100...
28 Jun 07 | HE'S 45 years of age, married and semi-retired. She's 37, with two kids and a mortgage.
28 Jun 07 | THE Hastings Valley Netball Association's 12 years' representative team is on track to perform strongly at this weekend's State Age Championships on the south coast.
28 Jun 07 | WITH round 11 of the Group 2 Rugby League competition now behind us, the Port Macquarie News/Port Macquarie Sharks player of the year awards go behind closed doors in just three weeks.
28 Jun 07 | Port Macquarie-Hastings Council will discuss its draft response to the Local Government Department's final report into the cultural centre at an extraordinary meeting on Monday.
28 Jun 07 | By CLARE HAYES
PORT Macquarie pubs and clubs are bracing for smoking bans.
Many expect to lose between 10 and 30 per cent of their business when anti-smoking laws come into full force on Mon...
28 Jun 07 | By PHIL THOMSON
THE leader of Port Macquarie's 3000 Catholics says this week's decision to allow embryonic stem cell research is wrong.
On Tuesday night, NSW MPs voted 27-13 to overturn a ba...
28 Jun 07 | THE Hastings population is getting older, more feminine and increasingly cosmopolitan.
26 Jun 07 | By ROD THOMPSON
PORT Macquarie's professional triathlete Tim Berkel has ecured the best placing on his European sojourn so far - a terrific fourth in the Ironman Switzerland.
The 22-year-ol...
26 Jun 07 | By CLARE HAYES
TELEGRAPH Point residents want answers.
They are campaigning against a proposed industrial hub near their village and will continue to ask questions about the suitability of a...
26 Jun 07 | THE third annual Hyundai A-League Pre-Season Cup kicks off in Port Macquarie next month with the Newcastle Jets taking on the Perth Glory.
26 Jun 07 | FRIENDS and family of murdered taxi driver Robert Woodger will remember a generous, community-minded man at a funeral in Sydney on Friday.
26 Jun 07 | Port Panthers 2
Macleay Valley Rangers 2
THE clichT "a game of two halves" was never more evident than in the top of the table Football Mid-North Coast Premier League clash between the Westp...
26 Jun 07 | By SIMONE PLEWS
RAIN has delayed work on Port Macquarie's $18.7 million link road and forced repairs to be carried out on the roadway surface.
Motorists faced delays yesterday as road contra...
26 Jun 07 | By LISA TISDELL
A RETAIL street forms part of a multi-million dollar redevelopment proposal unveiled on Monday for the Settlement City precinct.
ING Real Estate and Panthers Entertainment Gr...
26 Jun 07 | By PHIL THOMSON
A TEACHER who stepped in to protect a student from two other pupils during an excursion to Town Beach has undergone facial surgery.
The casual teacher from Port Macquarie Hig...
26 Jun 07 | Port United 1
Wauchope Axemen 0
THE Settlers Inn-sponsored Port United made the short trip to neighbouring Wauchope on Saturday to play the Axemen in the Football Mid-North Coast Premier Lea...
26 Jun 07 | VIRUS, Vortex and Jerks of Attention painted the town red after stealing the honours at the second round of the 2007 Maxxd Tour at Skirmish Down Under on the weekend.