First leg of the event. Photo: Supplied by Sam de Witte.
Corinne Stephen, overall Ladies winner 2024. Photo: Supplied by Sam de Witte. First leg of the event. Photo: Supplied by Sam de Witte. On your bikes. Photo: Supplied by Sam de Witte. GLOUCESTER Mountain Man Tri Challenge will be held on 13 September, marking the 32nd anniversary of the gruelling athletic event, which began in […]
Fireworks from 2025 event. The 2025 fireworks event. THE Gloucester Business Chamber’s new committee is holding a public meeting at Club Gloucester on Wednesday 9 September at 7 pm to gauge community support for the New Year’s Eve Fireworks event. The Business Chamber initiative began in 2021 to bring the community together after the COVID […]
Souths rugby league player Jai Arrow, who was forced into early retirement by MND and faces an unimaginable journey with the disease. Photo: South Sydney Rabbitohs.
NSW will become the first jurisdiction in Australia to report cases of people living with motor neurone disease (MND), with the NSW Government making it a notifiable condition from 1 September 2026. Medical practitioners will be required to notify NSW Health of motor neurone disease cases, following the publication of the Public Health Amendment (Motor […]
Dungog’s RFS volunteers are always happy to give advice. Photo: Facebook.
UPPER Hunter Local Government Areas began their Bush Fire Danger Period on Tuesday, 1 September. The NSW Rural Fire Service (RFS) is warning that now is the time to prepare. The RFS is urging all residents to take 10 minutes to think about the bushfire risk you, your property and your community face. The plea […]
WHY can’t they get this right ? Despite the fact that travel by air has been around since before we were born, airlines still have one outstanding issue that they can’t seem to get right. Have you ever noticed but just accepted that the most chaotic part of travel by air is how they initially […]
Saturday, 22 August 2026 Paterson Golf Club Individual Stableford Field: 38 members and five visitors. Results: DIV 1 (<15) | Winner David Bambach (7) 36 Points, Runner Up Paul Langley (14) 35 Points, 3rd Place John Walker (11) 33 Points DIV 2 (16-36) | Winner Benjamin Herden (17) 38 Points, Runner Up Joseph Jackson (22) […]
THE question of whether elderly Australians with serious, life-limiting illness are getting timely access to palliative care has been raised by Palliative Care Australia (PCA). The ABC’s Four Corners investigation The Waiting Game put the Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT), an automated decision-making system used to assess older Australians seeking government-funded aged care, under a spotlight. […]
Additional funding will allow the RFDS to do more for regional, rural and remote communities. Photo: RFDS.
THE NSW government is investing $15 million to support the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) to continue providing its lifesaving services across NSW. Part of the 2026-27 State Budget, the funding will enable the RFDS to deliver primary health care, dental and mental health services, retrievals, and patient and clinician transport in regional, rural and […]
DEAR News Of The Area, A SIMPLE Google search for correlation between increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature shows that Wayne Dunesbury’s contrary assertions (“At least we agree on something’, NOTA 21/8/26) are nonsense, unless tens of thousands of scientists worldwide over the past 50 years have been wrong. Given that we have passed peak […]
