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Ethan Hocking

PHOTOSNambucca Strikers and Bellingen in licence to thrill | photos

Christian Knight

TEAM OF THE MIGHTY WEST: Easton Wood believes Western Bulldogs can thrive in unusual circumstances. Picture: Adam Trafford

Positive mindset key to AFL hub success

Justine McCullagh-Beasy

Photo by Christian Knight

Volunteers needed to help get kids back on the pitch

Ethan Hocking

PHOTOSNambucca Strikers and Bellingen in licence to thrill | photos

Benji Marshall and David Fifita: Stars in their own rights.

Putting a wise NRL head on young NRL shoulders

Janine Graham

AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan warned that flexibility would be required to get through season 2020. Photo: Robert Cianflone/Getty Images

OPINIONCOVID-19 makes the impossible possible in season 2020

Rohan Connolly

Head to the Kimberley for the Ord Valley Muster. Picture: Sarah Duguid Photography

Kimberley's northern muster to celebrate 20th anniversary

Explore Travel

Sunset over Glasshouse Restaurant. Picture: Destination NSW

Take me home, country roads... to Tamworth's epic food scene

Explore Travel

CLOSED: The NSW border with Victoria remains shut down to all be permit holders. Picture: Border Mail

Latest travel restrictions: what you need to know

Explore Travel

FINEST OF SELECTIONS: Artists Chetan Bloemhard, Sandy Robinson, Carol Simons, Penel Gamble and Carole Helman showcase their work at the Nexus Gallery

WHAT'S ONNaturally inclined towards the finest of selections

Ute Schulenberg

From Malaysia to Urunga - local artists have been busy

From Malaysia to Urunga - local artists have been busy

Write Between the Eyes: from Readers & Writers Festival

Write Between the Eyes: from Readers & Writers Festival

FINEST OF SELECTIONS: Artists Chetan Bloemhard, Sandy Robinson, Carol Simons, Penel Gamble and Carole Helman showcase their work at the Nexus Gallery

WHAT'S ONNaturally inclined towards the finest of selections

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

Time to take the check in Dorrigo

Nexus Gallery to re-open

Nexus Gallery to re-open

Spring clean your life and finances

Spring clean your life and finances

Emma Brown

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Emma Brown

To read the latest issue please click on the cover above.

Read the Mid North Coast Health & Wellbeing Directory 2020 here

Ruth Thompson, Chief Executive Officer, Mid Coast Communities

Spring clean your life and finances

Spring clean your life and finances

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

OPTIMISM: Median prices for both houses and units in Alice Springs have shown an uplift in the recently completed quarter, giving cause for some level of optimism in the local market. Photo - Shutterstock.

Regions showing resilience

Ruth Lewis

Housing figures on a COVID rollercoaster

Housing figures on a COVID rollercoaster

Ruth Lewis

OVER THE RIVER: Investors are looking further afield for locations where there is good
rental demand and potential for capital gains. Photo - Shutterstock.

A rise in remote investing as regions gain appeal

Ruth Lewis

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

FINEST OF SELECTIONS: Artists Chetan Bloemhard, Sandy Robinson, Carol Simons, Penel Gamble and Carole Helman showcase their work at the Nexus Gallery

WHAT'S ONNaturally inclined towards the finest of selections

Ute Schulenberg

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

Remember, there's no one quite like you ...

Gary Bentley

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

WATCH OUT: If the scam is sent by email, it is likely to include an attachment or link to a fake website where you will be asked to download proof of the 'bill', 'fine' or 'delivery details'. Opening the attachment or downloading the file could infect your computer with malware.

Scamwatch: Has someone asking for money threatened you with arrest?

Dorrigo Rotary Club were one of the groups who received donated blankets from West Kempsey. Photo: Supplied

A shining light in dark times: Dorrigo Rotary Club receive generous gift from West Kempsey

Get in that car and rive. Photo: file

DIGESTForget jail, go straight to the ACT

"I want to see a greater uptake in all those categories. If we don't, we will consider further measures in which we can increase that uptake."

NSW Premier foreshadows stricter measures, as state records 18 new cases

Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Federal minister intervened at Newmarch House amid COVID-19 chaos

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Picture: Getty Images

ANALYSISExplainer: How did this border chaos kick off?

Ross and Helen Muir are ACT residents and are stuck in Wodonga at the Wellington Motel. Picture: Mark Jesser/The Border Mail

Calls for federal intervention on NSW-Victoria border crisis

Katie Burgess

Picture: Shutterstock

Attendance records examined as Batemans Bay students test positive to coronavirus

Kathryn Lewis

The fine print - and the big bold message it sends - was discussed by an anaesthetics registrar on Twitter today. Photo: Katarina Arandjelovic

DIGEST'That Statistic' explained by a frontline worker

Janine Graham

NSW reports highest COVID numbers in almost four months as schools outbreak grows

NSW reports highest COVID numbers in almost four months as schools outbreak grows

Kate McIlwain

Bellingen roadside protest to release asylum seekers

Bellingen roadside protest to release asylum seekers

Ethan Hocking

PHOTOSNambucca Strikers and Bellingen in licence to thrill | photos

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

Ute Schulenberg

New Guinea, July 1945: Troops of the New Guinea Infantry Battalion wade through a stream on their way to attack a Japanese position.

A Digger's harrowing one in a million story from the New Guinea front 75 years ago

Jim Kellar

NEW LIFE: Bathurst's Chezzi and Grant Denyer have announced that they're expecting a baby. Photo: CHRIS SEABROOK

SUBSCRIBERWatch as Grant and Chezzi Denyer announce their baby news

Nadine Morton

Photo by Felix Mittermeier from Pexels

Letter: Lock timber industry out of public forests

Darcey Browning

Letter: Barking up the wrong tree on timber value

A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at a drilled sample site on the slopes of Mount Sharp, Mars. Picture: Getty Images

OPINIONSo, why the sudden rush to visit Mars?

Cassandra Steer

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

An SA judge has urged the media to get the message out that drug dealers will likely be jailed.

Judge urges media to warn drug dealers

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The NDIS Commission has banned the disability agency which was caring for Ann-Marie Smith.

Care agency banned after SA woman's death

1hr ago

Braidwood FM's Bill McGinnis, Rod McClure, Gordon Waters and Gavin Pillage. The community radio station was a vital source of information during the Black Summer bushfires. Picture: Jamila Toderas

Broadcasters hit out at radio silence during fire crisis

2hrs ago

A royal commission is examining coronavirus response and preparedness in aged care.

Aged home residents 'second class people'

2hrs ago

Victoria recorded 410 new COVID-19 cases and 21 deaths, Australia's deadliest day of the pandemic.

Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact

Callum Godde

A court has ruled a man can't be kept in a Melbourne detention centre because of coronavirus risk.

COVID-19 stoush keeps detainee in limbo

Georgie Moore

Michael Gunner has been criticised by the tourism sector over comments about NT border controls.

Call for clarity over NT border controls

Aaron Bunch

The Armidale 'supercow' from Arthur and Joan Gates. Photo: Joan Gates

The supercow that just keeps coming up with the goods

Lucy Kinbacher

Jason Singe, Yeramba Pastoral Company has been told he would have to return home to Henty via Sydney Airport if he drove over the NSW/Victorian border to check on his cows at Tallangatta, Vic. Pictured at the Wodonga saleyards in June.

Tighter Victorian border restrictions frustrate

Olivia Calver
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Luke Mashford with children, George, 10, Jess, 12 and Nicola, 8 after their flood country finally got a drink earlier this year. Photo: Supplied

Outback Dohne graziers catch a break

Olivia Calver

Breeders banned from bull sales outside the "border bubble" are frustrated that purchasing of sires is not being recognised as an essential service, and have little chance of a special permit being granted. File photo from 2019.

What Qld border closure means for agriculture

Lucy Kinbacher and Jamie Brown

Keep checking the simple things regularly, especially on vehicles that get used less often.

You should still check things even if it's mostly parked up

Sam Hollier

Warm your home (and your heart) with a spot of timber

Warm your home (and your heart) with a spot of timber

Happy, healthy and so cute despite the unexpected way she arrived. Picture: Supplied

OPINIONThrow out the birth plan and go with the flow

Christy Kidner