A previous meet of the Triumph Sports Owners car clubs.
FRIDAY 17 October marks the start of a weeklong national meeting for the Triumph Sports Owners car clubs in the Port Stephens area. The Anchorage at Corlette will house 120 registrants from all over Australia for the meet. “Some of their number will have driven from as far away as Perth and Adelaide,” said member […]
Served by Jetstar’s Airbus A320, the new service will start on 2 December 2025. Photo: Jetstar.
DIRECT seasonal flights will launch between Newcastle and Hobart, connecting the two cities for the first time. Served by Jetstar’s Airbus A320, the new service will start on 2 December 2025 and run three times a week – every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday – until 21 April 2026. The seasonal flights will return each summer […]
Following extensive inquiries, strike force detectives arrested a 31-year-old man in Ultimo last Thursday. Photo: NSW Police.
NSW POLICE’S Raptor Squad has charged a man following an alleged aggravated robbery in Port Stephens earlier this year. Strike Force Bromsgrove is an investigation by State Crime Command’s Raptor North into a series of aggravated robbery-related incidents in the Nelson Bay area in March 2025. About 5.25am on Thursday 27 March, emergency services were […]
Penny Dakin, Scott Howie, Ros Abercrombie, Andrew Barker, Danielle Fusco and Imogen Castledine.
REGIONAL Arts Australia is launching a “transformative” new funding initiative with $2.4 million dollars in support from Minderoo Foundation. The program offers multi-year grants of $160,000 to support independent artists living and working in regional communities across Australia. “Practice in Community” will deliver two funding rounds for independent artists working in Community Arts and Cultural […]
Vicki Haines with her cross-world motorbike sidekick, helmet-wearing long-term NBVC members Sue McMahon and Gwen Harris and frocked and feathered members Jan Bell and Pat Gibson.
NELSON Bay VIEW Club hosted a spring luncheon on Friday 26 September in support of the Smith Family’s Learning for Life program. The initiative brought together the “frocked and feathered” from within the community, all focused on giving disadvantaged students the resources they need to succeed in school. Guest speaker and “local hero”, Vicki Haines, […]
A POPULATION of koalas continues to live around Grahamstown Dam, according to a drone-based survey undertaken by Hunter Water and the University of Newcastle. Using drones fitted with thermal cameras and spotlight technology, the project surveyed more than 2,000 hectares across Hunter Water-managed land as part of Australia’s most comprehensive drone fauna survey ever undertaken […]
The plan includes extra bus services across the Hunter. Photo: Transport for NSW.
The plan includes extra bus services across the Hunter. Photo: Transport for NSW. The area covered by the Hunter Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plan. THE Hunter needs more public transport. That’s the key takeaway from the NSW Government’s just-released Hunter Strategic Regional Integrated Transport Plan, which sets out 49 short and medium-term actions across public […]
COST-OF-LIVING pressures and the impact on access to basic needs like health services is one of the key issues emerging from the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of NSW Annual Women’s Survey. The survey is now in its second year and is currently open to all women in communities across the state. “Last year’s survey really […]
WOMEN across NSW are being invited to take part in a major government-funded health initiative designed to support active, independent ageing. The program, Active Women over 50, is led by Professor Anne Tiedemann from the University of Sydney and supported by the Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund. It will provide free, tailored support to […]
Interactive dinosaur, dolphin and whale anatomy and skeletons are littered around the creative space at the Visitor Information Centre.
PORT Stephens is alive with exciting activities guaranteed to keep the kids smiling through to the end of the school holidays on 16 October. News Of The Area has put together a list for locals and visitors: – The Port Stephens Visitor Information Centre is running the Whale and Dolphin Exhibition until Thursday 16 October. […]
