BACK for its 36th year on 18-20 September, Dungog’s Pedalfest is not your typical bike festival. A project of Dungog Rotary ...

Trev Officer, from our game day sponsor Work n Play enjoying the day with TGSC junior grade players Flynn and Tobias. Walking ...

Gary Bennett prepares his shot for a win at Forster. Photo: MPCC. Andrew Sillar lines up at the Forster Spring Carnival.

THE front-page story for many of the world’s news sources recently reported that Donald Trump had threatened to ‘bomb the ...

AUSTRALIA must smash the illicit tobacco market that is fuelling organised crime, hurting legitimate businesses and making a ...

DEAR News Of The Area, I WRITE in reply to Jennifer Indsto’s letter (‘Tomaree Headland master plan a ‘dog’s breakfast’’, NOTA ...

THE villages of Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest and communities on the north side of Port Stephens were dangerously close to a bushfire that burnt to their north from late January to early March this year.

THE rising cost of life’s essentials is putting increasing pressure on households across Australia, with regional communities ...

MEMBERS of Tea Gardens’ branch of the Red Cross ran their annual Father’s Day raffle last Saturday, the latest in a series of ...

DEAR Jasminda, I’VE started dating a man named Reece. Everything is great but he ends a lot of sentences with ‘do you know ...

Helicopter approaching Gloucester. Photo: Supplied. On the ground in Gloucester. Photo: Supplied. MANY regional residents are ...

NEW fathers in NSW will benefit from new health and mental health checks thanks to a $1 million donation from the NSW ...