30 Dec 09 | THOUSANDS of people are expected at the foreshore for the New Year’s Eve fireworks extravaganza.
30 Dec 09 | A motorcyclist has been arrested and charged after being clocked by police travelling at 150kmh near Taree.
30 Dec 09 | CONVICTED child killer, Austin “Aussie” Hughes, will spend the next three months living on the Mid-North Coast.
30 Dec 09 | A family remains cut off by flood waters that have saturated the Hastings in the past four days.
30 Dec 09 | GOOD news for one farmer is not always good news for another.
While torrential rain this week was a blessing for farmers working the parched landscape, it was a curse for oyster growers on the Hastings River.
30 Dec 09 | BAD weather played havoc with two flights into Port Macquarie on Monday night.
30 Dec 09 | WANTED: Young women to be in the running for a lucrative prize pool and raise money to cheer up sick kids.
30 Dec 09 | TOURIST attractions Peppermint Park and Fantasy Glades might be long gone, but a new venture will boost our town’s reputation as family friendly.
30 Dec 09 | THREE men and a boy spent 10 minutes floundering in the waters at the mouth of the Hastings River yesterday after a freak wave capsized their new, $15,000 fishing boat.
30 Dec 09 | THE heavy rainfall that has lashed the Mid-North Coast will not, at this stage, stop Friday’s mammoth New Year’s Day race meeting at Port Macquarie.
30 Dec 09 | THE Port Macquarie Masters Swimming Club hosted its annual presentations this month with members gathering at the home of Paul and Sallie Scully, for the combined attraction of the awards and a great Christmas lunch.
30 Dec 09 | TICKETS for next year’s NRL trial featuring the Newcastle Knights and Penrith Panthers are on sale.
30 Dec 09 | SOME of the state’s best greyhounds are preparing to do battle at the Beechwood Road circuit.
28 Dec 09 | WAUCHOPE firefighters dramatically rescued a local man from rising floodwaters on Sunday night.
Gushing waters swept the man's car from a causeway at a private property on Pipeclay Rd about 30km west of Wauchope.
28 Dec 09 | A MAN who lost a week’s wages in September because of a tyre-slashing spree by four teenagers, reckons “the whole thing stinks”.
28 Dec 09 | WAUCHOPE'S Angela Allen and Mitchell Towle received the great Christmas gift of all - a son.
28 Dec 09 | FOLLOWING a year of bad publicity for National Rugby League players, it’s good to know there are still some good-hearted ones out there.
28 Dec 09 | MORE than 200 people attended the emergency department at Port Macquarie Base Hospital on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
28 Dec 09 | HASTINGS business operators face prosecution if they fail to comply with new awards which will be introduced in the new year.
The problem is, according to one business lobby group, few people understand the changes.
28 Dec 09 | SAND dune hoons beware: Our beaches are not racetracks.