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Kurt Fearnley has welcomed the significant boost to para-sport funding.

Para-athletes funding boost of $1 million

Adrian Warren

Meet the Stroud Seals coaching team: Tim Tatchell, Michael Abel and James Newall. Photo supplied

Stroud seals the deal with new coaches

Ladies summer competition in full swing

Kurt Fearnley has welcomed the significant boost to para-sport funding.

Para-athletes funding boost of $1 million

News from the golf course

Stellar Sunday target shoot

Woodworked items are among the plentiful handmade gifts to be found at Craftathon. Photos: supplied.

Shop handmade and local for Christmas at Craftathon 2018

Destiny Jewellery Party at Gloucester Outreach Church.

A party to empower children

Vintage aircraft set to fly into Gloucester

Anne Keen

Woodworked items are among the plentiful handmade gifts to be found at Craftathon. Photos: supplied.

Shop handmade and local for Christmas at Craftathon 2018

Dr Colin Rose retired from general practice after 47 years earlier this year.

Colin Rose to speak for palliative care

Anne Keen

Mid Coast (NSW) Community Quilters members and the Nabiac Memorial Neighbourhood Centre at a thank you celebration September 2017.

Airing of the quilts to raise funds

Anne Keen

Showtime: Cattle, craft and country hospitality will all feature at the 2018 Bulahdelah Show on Friday and Saturday.

Surprises in store at show

A sunset bath in Botswana is enjoyed by a pair of elephants

An exhilarating brush with danger in deep Botswana

Jennie Dicker

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Read Mid North Coast Now here

Ruth Lewis

Showtime: Cattle, craft and country hospitality will all feature at the 2018 Bulahdelah Show on Friday and Saturday.

Surprises in store at show

What's your plan: Having a Bushfire Survival Plan will help you avoid making last minute decisions that could be deadly.

Ensure you have a fire plan

Man of the moment: Santa reassures the children of the world that they have the power within themselves to stay on the Good List.

Santa believes in you too

Jennifer Birchall

An unbeatable family lifestyle at Forster

House of the week

Read Three Valleys Domain here

Ruth Lewis

First impressions: Using quality photos in real estate listings can make all the difference.

Are professional photos worth it?

Ruth Lewis

Students, teachers and community liaison officer are part of the team making Thursday morning breakfast a success at GHS.

Breakfast at school is bringing the community together

Anne Keen

A sea of colour: The beautiful kept garden water feature at the entrance of Gloucester's Hillcrest Nursing Home. Photo: Anne Keen

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter

Anne Keen

Students enjoy eating the last of the bacon and eggs as the rain clouds begin to roll in. Photo supplied.

Students walk for silver

Rob Seale

Students, teachers and community liaison officer are part of the team making Thursday morning breakfast a success at GHS.

Breakfast at school is bringing the community together

SNAPPED: AIF 2nd Division soldiers, Vignacourt, 1918. Picture: AWM P10550.140

Road to Remembrance

Woodworked items are among the plentiful handmade gifts to be found at Craftathon. Photos: supplied.

Shop handmade and local for Christmas at Craftathon 2018

35 photos from the Coffs Coast World Rally showdown

Remembrance Day 2018

Fun in the sun: Dekoda and Ellanor Summerfield enjoying the slippery water slide at Camp Memories 2017. Photo: Scott Calvin

From our Archives: Camp Memories in the Manning 2017 | Photos

From our archives: Taree Craftathon 2011 to 2016

Winner of ther 2018 Melbourne Cup winner Cross Counter and jockey Kerrin McEvoy with trainer Charlie Appleby.

How the Melbourne Cup panned out: on the track

Gloucester Bowling Club: Glenda Braden and Annette Hampton

Melbourne Cup 2018

Anne Keen

Megan Gale

25 faces you might know at the Melbourne Cup

Scenes from Flemington.

How Melbourne Cup 2018 panned out: off the track

Letter to the editor: Centenary of the First World War Armistice

Glochidion ferdinandi (Cheese Tree) located at Failford, age in excess of 150 years.

Tree controls removed: Do plans and policies mean nothing?

Helen Hannah

Gloucester residents helped provide 762,948 meals to Aussies in need

SORE SUBJECT FOR SENIORS: From November 1 anyone aged 50 or over will have to visit a specialist to be referred for an MRI scan on a sore or injured knee.

Over 50s denied GP-referred knee MRI scans

Eileen Wood

BEST SHOT: Wilma Perkins competes in shot put - one of seven events in the heptathlon - at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Malaga, Spain. Photo: World Masters Athletics

Golden girls reign in Spain

Geraldine Cardozo

Win a NZ Holiday

Bali Nine member Renae Lawrence may have to face a NSW court on old charges when she returns.

Bali Nine's Lawrence faces arrest in Aust

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Scott Morrison has met with Joko Widodo in a bid to rescue a free trade agreement.

Morrison attempts to mend diplomatic rifts

It's nearly 10 years since the Black Saturday fires with Kinglake one of the places hardest hit.

Countdown to Black Saturday a decade on

New Zealand enters sausage sizzle debate

Morrison raises sticky India sugar stoush

Daniel McCulloch

Groote Eylandt in the NT will design and run government-funded services under a new agreement.

NT hands power to Groote Eylandt clans

Greg Roberts

Researchers suspect baby brain may affect people going through other life changes.

Baby brain could stretch beyond mums-to-be

Christine McGinn

Jesse Ray Hooker has been fined $4000 for stealing a baby meerkat from Perth Zoo.

Perth Zoo meerkat thief thought 'cool pet'

Rebecca Le May

A bellowing good time on Scotland’s west coast

Rochelle Tubb

Old bottles of madeira … richly flavoured and seductive.

Life is but a SeaDream

John Rozentals

The Sebel Melbourne Malvern … 17 floors with 86 apartments.

Six highlights in your travel week | 12 Nov

John Rozentals

Where's my waste: This year’s theme for National Recycling Week, From Waste Wars to Recycling Reboot, aims to resolve some of the confusion surrounding Australia’s waste.

The truth about recycling

A 2013 comprehensive review of the literature on the effect of bariatric surgery on cancer outcomes suggested that the surgery did reduce cancer risk, particularly for breast and endometrial cancer in individuals who had been obese prior.

Does bariatric surgery reduce cancer risk?

Healthshare

DIY: Take on smaller jobs.

Finish your reno before Christmas