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Volunteers needed to help get kids back on the pitch

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Junior rugby league's green light to resume

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Hi, ho, Bello and Dorrigo - cash to lift showgrounds

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Volunteers needed to help get kids back on the pitch

Local football to resume training ahead of July competition start

GOOD NEWSLocal football to resume training ahead of July competition start

Patrick Dangerfield wants to give racism the boot and is one of the spearheads behind We Got You.

Sports stars head racism campaign

Melissa Woods

No exucses: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park is ready and waiting.

Northern Territory escape turns dreaming into reality

John Rozentals

The strip between the Gold Coast Highway and the Esplanade is the heart of Surfers Paradise. Picture: Supplied

Queensland's golden strip has glitz and glamour

Lydia Roberts

ACT Chief Health Officer Kerryn Coleman. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

People coming from virus hotspots forced into quarantine in ACT

Daniella White

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

Nexus Gallery to re-open

Nexus Gallery to re-open

Jason John

Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival reborn

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

RFBI Raleigh Urunga Masonic Village residents Joyce Power and Liz Hill

Knitting up a storm for Raleigh Urunga village

FEW ARE CALLED: Felix Hughes Chivers

This boy can play - Felix in rare company

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Read the Mid North Coast Health & Wellbeing Directory 2020 here

Ruth Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Mid Coast Communities

The path back to a new normal

The path back to a new normal

Emma Brown

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Emma Brown

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Read the Mid North Coast Health & Wellbeing Directory 2020 here

Finding a driving instructor who is the right fit for you

Finding a driving instructor who is the right fit for you

Read Mid North Coast Now here

Read Mid North Coast Now here

Ruth Lewis

Tim McKibbin, CEO of the REINSW says consumer's requirements post-COVID-19 will be an interesting space to watch.

Property market now entering unchartered waters

Tim McKibbin, CEO, REINSW

You wish: Eco-house with green heart goes under the hammer

You wish: Eco-house with green heart goes under the hammer

RESULT: The winning bidders with CRE Martin agent Clive Martin

Auction result reflects interest in regional real estate market

Dawn Rasmussen

Your free directory to Bellingen Shire businesses and how you can support them

Your free directory to Bellingen Shire businesses and how you can support them

Dr Trevor Cheney

Latest update from the Bellingen Covid-19 Clinic with Dr Trevor Cheney

GAMBLE: Often the information used in computer prediction software programs can be obtained from the betting pages of your local newspaper at very little cost.

Scamwatch: Fancy a punt? Don't fall for a betting or sports investment scam

Your free directory to Bellingen Shire businesses and how you can support them

Your free directory to Bellingen Shire businesses and how you can support them

Doors reopening at Urunga's Great Koala National Park information centre

Doors reopening at Urunga's Great Koala National Park information centre

Ute Schulenberg

Dorrigo Showground get dollars for stockyard upgrade

Dorrigo Showground get dollars for stockyard upgrade

Premier Daniel Andrews has announced a re-entry to lockdown in some parts of Victoria.

UPDATEDMelbourne re-enters lockdown as COVID-19 reaches record high

A St Kilda Rd tree during version 1 of Melbourne's lockdown. Photo: Shutterstock

DIGESTBorder closes first, then Melbourne to be ringfenced

How police will enforce the NSW-Victorian border when it closes tonight

How police will enforce the NSW-Victorian border when it closes tonight

NW Premier Gladys Berejiklian

ANALYSISCan I cross the NSW-Victoria border? There are exemptions, but you'll need a very good reason

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews. Picture: Shutterstock

ANALYSISHere's how the Victoria-NSW border closure will work - and how residents might be affected

Andrew Burridge

Supermarkets put limits on toilet paper for the second time during the pandemic . Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Supermarkets lift buying restrictions for second time

Kathryn Lewis

The lockdown of Victorian unit blocks has confused residents. Picture: Getty Images

EXPLAINERVictoria's COVID-19 situation nearly 'out-of-control'

Steve Evans

'A dangerous new phase' of COVID-19 looms

DIGEST'A dangerous new phase' of COVID-19 looms

Janine Graham

Heartache and resolve as Dorrigo Cenotaph trashed in car crash

PHOTOSHeartache and resolve as Dorrigo Cenotaph trashed in car crash

President of Dorrigo Sub Branch of the RSL of Australia, Jim McLeod, lays
a wreath at the Monument

From main street to cattle grid, Dorrigo reflects | photos

Bellingen man's moving Last Post tribute on electric guitar

Bellingen man's moving Last Post tribute on electric guitar

FAIRING WELL: From left, Mae Harrison, Jarrah and Tallow Schmidt, Odin Platthy, Linden Harrison

Autumn Plant Fair - our last hurrah for community events? | photos

Magpies thunder home to clinch Sgt. Matthew Locke Memorial Trophy | photos

Magpies thunder home to clinch Sgt. Matthew Locke Memorial Trophy | photos

Ute Schulenberg

The brown snake came off worse for wear after a battle with 'Jimmy.'

'Fanging' it to escape brown snake

Jessica Johnston

A beautiful photograph of the platypus found at the Bega River. Picture: Matthew Higgins.

WATCHWatch a platypus frolic in the Bega River

Enora Borgnon

HARD WORK REWARDED: 2020 NSW Senior Australian of the Year Sue Lennox. Picture: Salty Dingo

FREETime to shine a light on inspiring Australians

Ellie-Marie Watts

Letter: Time is ripe for change

Letter: Time is ripe for change

Glen Little's protest van

Letter: Community's view clear on Dorrigo 'Water Cloud' sculpture

Letter: Mylestom walkway plan a peril for trees, wildlife

Letter: Mylestom walkway plan a peril for trees, wildlife

Qantas flight attendant Sara Armbrecht at the Qantas Founders Museum holding two dolls dressed in her minature Qantas uniforms: a Pucci unform worn 1974 to 1985 (left) and the current uniform designed by Martin Grant.

Flights of fashion: Doll collection celebrates century of Qantas uniforms

Geraldine Cardozo

Reforms for NSW retirement villages.

Retirement village reforms welcomed

Eileen Wood

GOOD HEALTH: Dr Michael Mosley has written a new book about coronavirus that includes an entire section dedicated to boosting the immune system.

Michael Mosley: How to boost the immune system

Samara Ross

Permits are required to travel from Victoria into NSW after the border was closed.

Glitch in NSW border permit website

23m ago

Police and defence personnel are enforcing the border closure between New South Wales and Victoria.

Border town mayors worry over closure

27m ago

NSW Police say they turned back one car before midnight at the NSW-Victoria border town of Albury.

Fog hangs over coronavirus border closures

27m ago

The states want fewer international flights so the hotel quarantine system isn't overwhelmed.

Victoria closed off amid COVID-19 outbreak

28m ago

Eateries have to go back to takeaway and delivery only when Melbourne goes into lockdown again.

Melbourne braces for stage three lockdown

Christine McGinn
28m ago

Health teams are going floor by floor and door to door to test the 3000 residents in nine towers.

Testing a must to ease tower lockdown

Christine McGinn
29m ago

The royal commission will examine where people live and the types of buildings that are constructed.

Homes built in areas with high fire risk

Megan Neil
29m ago

People in lockdown have experienced relationships deteriorating and an increase in loneliness.

Virus continues to take mental health toll

Katina Curtis, AAP Senior Political Writer
29m ago

The brown snake came off worse for wear after a battle with 'Jimmy.'

'Fanging' it to escape brown snake

Jessica Johnston

Cara Wilson said the society has rebranded with a new strategy to be more inclusive of people working across the broad church of animal sciences and to be a professional home for them. Photo: supplied

'Sustainability' focus for Animal Sciences

Bingara producer Rhonda King. Photo: Laura Lockhart

Breeding back out of drought

Lucy Kinbacher

NEEDED: What technology would you like to be compulsory in vehicles? Photo: Shutterstock

Study shows tech delay has a big impact on fatality figures

Mathew Dickerson

THE ENTERTAINER: Cooinda House has been designed with plenty of space for when the entire family comes together. Photos: Matthew Gianoulis.

Fit for a king, queen or the entire palace

There's plenty to keep you busy in the garden over winter

There's plenty to keep you busy in the garden over winter

John Gabriele