Local Power AFL junior products Noah McKimm, Alex Brady, Toby Ruhl and Riley Johnston.
HISTORY-making Port Stephens Power AFL men’s team has opened their 2025 Hunter Central Coast Seniors Black Diamond Plate campaign in winning fashion. Fielding a senior men’s team for the first time, the Power line-up etched their names in the record books with an encouraging 73-45 victory over the Muswellbrook Cats at Ferodale Oval. Tall on-baller […]
Nelson Bay Marlins AFL co-captains Billy Barton (left) and Louis Dews turned in outstanding games in the club’s 219-1 victory over Cardiff Hawks Seconds.
NELSON Bay Marlins are a force to be reckoned with in the 2025 Hunter Central Coast Senior Men’s Black Diamond Plate competition. The much-vaunted Marlins outclassed Cardiff Hawks’ seconds team by a staggering 219-1 in an opening round fixture at Dick Burwell Oval – stamping their mark as premiership favourites. Top Marlins forward Billy Barton […]
The Nelson Bay Cancer Patient Transport Group was awarded the Port Stephens Medal at the annual Australia Day awards in 2023.
THE Tomaree Prostate Cancer Support Group was formed in May 2012. It was quickly identified that a real need existed for a transport service to take patients to Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Maitland for radiotherapy, chemotherapy, oncology and diagnostics. This need exists because of the distances required to travel for treatment and the length of […]
DEAR News Of The Area, THIS week the Coalition announced a $20 billion “Regional Australia Future Fund” aimed at improving health, child care and infrastructure inequalities in non-urban Australia. Perhaps they were listening to our MidCoast Council Mayor, Claire Pontin, who has been advocating a doubling of Federal funding to local councils. The new Future […]
Emerging Nelson Bay swimmers Lara Budd, Ebony Nix, Lachlan Parker, Stefan Grant and Randal Ingram are competing at the Australian and New Zealand Age Swimming Championships.
CORLETTE superfish Ebony Nix and Stefan Grant are chasing national swimming championship medals in different countries. The talented duo are part of a strong Nelson Bay Swim Club contingent that will participate in this week’s Australian Age Swimming Championships at Brisbane Aquatic Centre. Thirteen year old whiz kid Stefan – the club’s youngest national qualifier […]
The murder of six people in a stabbing rampage is among incidents driving up the homicide toll. Photo: Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS.
MURDERS have spiked in Australia’s most populous state, driven by multiple-victim homicides including a shopping centre massacre in which six people were killed. A total of 85 people were murdered in NSW in 2024, up from 56 in the previous year and the highest toll since 2014, the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research reports. […]
The agricultural sector is facing a mental health crisis.
A COALITION of rural organisations has called for immediate action to address the mental health crisis in agriculture. More than 30 rural and healthcare organisations launched a joint statement to address the crisis this week. Ahead of a federal budget and election, the group is calling on the Government to make an immediate investment of […]
Last year’s regatta comprised 11 days of sailing, spanning three weeks and involving 215 boats. Photos: Promocean Media.
WITH Sail Port Stephens 2025 starting on 31 March, change is in the air and all the signs are pointing to another record year of demand and growth for an event that has been on a continual trajectory for 18 straight years. Last year’s regatta comprised 11 days of sailing, spanning three weeks and involving […]
