Staff have resumed work at Port Macquarie airport for the first time since the height of the COVID pandemic forced employer Air Flight Handling to stand them down. Their reinstatement, along with increases in capital city routes, are signs that regional aviation is making a welcome recovery.
Proceeds from the future sale of the old Macksville Hospital will be reinvested into NSW Health services and infrastructure. A NSW Property spokesman confirmed the hospital will be sold as is, with a contamination report to be provided to its new owner outlining the physical state of the facility.
An online post threatening to ‘burn the house down’ of one of two men charged with 431 child sex offences dating back to 2011 has triggered a court order suppressing his identity. The Facebook posts, tendered in court, also reveal personal information identifying his alleged victim and family’s address.
Police will allege a grocery store security guard began engaging in explicit online conversations with police – he thought was a 14-year-old girl – before allegedly attempting to procure the minor for sex.
A hearing date has been set down at Taree Local Court in the case of a former youth worker accused of recruiting a boy, 14, to burgle his Upper Lansdowne home as part of an an alleged insurance scam.
Kempsey’s Cameron Stewart went to great lengths to defraud not-for-profit bushfire charities, Centrelink and welfare recipients out of $35,000. Now it has been revealed in court how he did it.
Melbourne Storm winger Josh Addo-Carr has pleaded not guilty to breaching Ministerial COVID-19 orders during a visit to Taree in April. The charge has been adjourned to March 5 where the NSW Blues player is also set to be sentenced for unauthorised firearm use.
It is the beginning of the end today of 13 years of school education for year 12 students on the Mid-North Coast. Preparations for the commencement of today’s HSC have been rocky, but Chatham High School leaders say they’re ready to tackle the two-week exams head on.
Forensic testing has confirmed the identity of human remains which were found washed-up at two Port beaches in September.
A $1 billion hydro-electric water storage facility is being planned for the NSW Mid-North Coast, which would offer hundreds of jobs and ensure one town ‘won’t run out of water.’ It has also been revealed how the project could impact electricity bills.
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