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HELP: It was all hands on deck in the kitchen. PHOTO: Supplied.

Community spirit shines as fires bring out the best in people

Laura Telford

Photo: Sophia Julia Nejkov, Pappinbarra

LIVEFire crews have a long way to go | rolling updates

Tracey Fairhurst

Geoff Agnew at Red Hill. Photo: Carla Mascarenhas

Tiny community of Red Hill saves all homes through brilliant community effort

Carla Mascarenhas

GLAD OF SOMEWHERE TO GO: Judy Hunt from King Creek brought her horses to Wauchope Showground.

Wauchope Showground shelters 500 animals during bushfire emergency

Letitia Fitzpatrick

CALM REFUGE: Gail Sheehan and Carol Booth, playing the harp, to soothe Oscar who is almost blind. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Carol plays the harp to soothe blind horse after fleeing fires

Letitia Fitzpatrick

SAFE: Sean Gleeson and Nugget the horse safe at the Kendall Showgrounds. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

"You can't plan for that": an evacuee's tale to survive

Laura Telford

Clear skies: Rollands Plains residents woke to calm and clear skies after a tense night facing fires at Gum Scrub and Stockyard Creek. Photo: Karen Lovett.

Hastings villages bunkered down and braced for the worst

Tracey Fairhurst

HELP: It was all hands on deck in the kitchen. PHOTO: Supplied.

Community spirit shines as fires bring out the best in people

Laura Telford

Photo: Sophia Julia Nejkov, Pappinbarra

LIVEFire crews have a long way to go | rolling updates

Tracey Fairhurst

Where the action is: On the ground - across much of the state of NSW yesterday. Picture: Marina Neil

REAL AUSTRALIABeneath the noise, miracles are taking place

Luke Meier-Smith.

Smoke cancels Mayor's Sporting Fund golf day at Kew

Laura Telford

AWARD WINNER: Daphne Shaw with a selection of the awards she has won over the years. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

Camden Haven bowler named 'legend' of the game

Laura Telford

Back on land: Calisha Thrower exits the water at last year's branch event.

Rainbow Beach to host first branch carnival of surf life saving season

Paul Jobber

Luke Meier-Smith.

Smoke cancels Mayor's Sporting Fund golf day at Kew

Worth the trip: Our Berkley Pic of the Week is Greg from Maitland, who recently scored this nice snapper during a trip out with Fish Port Macquarie Charters.

Flathead and whiting in estuaries

Jason Isaac

FUNDS: Laurieton United Services Club's Rob Dwyer, Terry Memory, Peter Moor and Brian Powers.

Table Tennis players fundraise for find a cure for MND

Laura Telford

TERROR: Lake Cathie was evacuated during the bushfire last month. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

Community prepares to say thanks to hero firies

Laura Telford

HELP: A volunteer working hard at the peninsula.

Join in the fun as Dunbogan bushcare group celebrate

Laura Telford

TAKING SHAPE: The Comboyne Museum at the old Hurrell homestead is looking better than ever.

Help Comboyne raise funds to preserve its history

Letitia Fitzpatrick

TERROR: Lake Cathie was evacuated during the bushfire last month. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

Community prepares to say thanks to hero firies

WORLD CLASS: Rebecca Daniel and Fiona Joy Hawkins bring The Lightness of Dark to Wauchope Arts on Sunday November 10 at 3pm.

WHAT'S ONSpecial Sunday for songs at Wauchope arts hall

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Attendees meet and greet each other at the 2018 Remembrance Day service.

Time to remember our service men and women

Liz Langdale

Solemn occasion: Returned service men at the Port Macquarie war memorial re-dedication ceremony, 1969. Photo supplied by Port Macquarie Museum

War memorial dedication

Port Macquarie Museum

Carpark site: Old School of Arts building, corner of Hay and Clarence Streets, 1969. Photo supplied by Port Macquarie Museum.

Chamber wants the corner lot for carpark

Port Macquarie Museum

Pomp and ceremony: Anne Drewitt, the first of the standard bearers at the Presentation of Flags, part of the opening session of the Lions Convention, 1969.

Flashback: 1969 Lions district convention

Port Macquarie Museum

The Peace Shack Four: Anick, Suzanne, Kate and Siobhan are here to help you grow in happiness and joy, be supported and not alone and share with others.

Your place of peace is here

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The Peace Shack Four: Anick, Suzanne, Kate and Siobhan are here to help you grow in happiness and joy, be supported and not alone and share with others.

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Stirling Rise: (L-R) Lewis Land Group's Luke Moreta, Chris Calvert, Michael Long and Nicole Landy at Sovereign Hills' latest land release.

Exclusive land is released

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HELP: It was all hands on deck in the kitchen. PHOTO: Supplied.

Community spirit shines as fires bring out the best in people

Laura Telford

SAFE: Sean Gleeson and Nugget the horse safe at the Kendall Showgrounds. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

"You can't plan for that": an evacuee's tale to survive

Laura Telford

Who will it be for 2020?: 2019 Australian of the Year award winners. Photo: Salty Dingo

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

HELP: It was all hands on deck in the kitchen. PHOTO: Supplied.

Community spirit shines as fires bring out the best in people

Nicholas Kocis.

PHOTOSSmoke clouds the Hastings as fire emergency continues

Laura Telford

TERROR: Lake Cathie was evacuated during the bushfire last month. PHOTO: Laura Telford.

Community prepares to say thanks to hero firies

Laura Telford

CALM REFUGE: Gail Sheehan and Carol Booth, playing the harp, to soothe Oscar who is almost blind. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Watch Carol play the harp to soothe blind horse after fleeing fires

Geoff Agnew at Red Hill. Photo: Carla Mascarenhas

Tiny community of Red Hill saves all homes through brilliant community effort

GLAD OF SOMEWHERE TO GO: Judy Hunt from King Creek brought her horses to Wauchope Showground.

Wauchope Showground shelters 500 animals during bushfire emergency

Where the action is: On the ground - across much of the state of NSW yesterday. Picture: Marina Neil

REAL AUSTRALIABeneath the noise, miracles are taking place

CALM REFUGE: Gail Sheehan and Carol Booth, playing the harp, to soothe Oscar who is almost blind. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Carol plays the harp to soothe blind horse after fleeing fires

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Clear skies: Rollands Plains residents woke to calm and clear skies after a tense night facing fires at Gum Scrub and Stockyard Creek. Photo: Karen Lovett.

Hastings villages bunkered down and braced for the worst

Tracey Fairhurst

PRECIOUS HUGS: Laura Roots cuddles her daughter, Phoebe, at Hollisdale Hall, after they survived the Upper Pappinbarra bushfire. Photo: Letitia Fitzpatrick.

Mum and bub shelter inside as hubby saves home from bushfire

Letitia Fitzpatrick

Kelly escaped from the flames on a tractor. Her son took this photo.

Bushfire terror: Kelly and family escape just in time

Letitia Fitzpatrick

OPINIONWhatevs bro, people can't help their names-uh!

Marie Low
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SPOTLIGHT: A new Regional Australia Institute report highlights the unique NDIS challenges being faced in regional areas.

OPINIONBuilding the NDIS for regional Australia

Dr Kim Houghton

Thanks to all our emergency workers

Thanks to all our emergency workers

Port Macquarie-Hastings mayor Peta Pinson

GUT INSTINCTS: Professor Marcello Costa and research assistant Lauren Keightley from Flinders University.

Cracking the colon code: insights probe gut function

Geraldine Cardozo

HAPPY AND HEALTHY: Catherine and Rex Wegener, picture before Rex became sick with asbestos-related mesothelioma.

'He didn't expect to go out this way': How asbestos claimed the life of Rex Wegener

Geraldine Cardozo

Blood pressure pills are best taken at bedtime, say researchers

Blood pressure meds 'best taken at night'

Eileen Wood

NOT HAPPY: Tamworth councillor Russell Webb labelled the Murray Darling Basin Plan a "bloody mess" at this week's meeting. Photo: Jacob McArthur 121119JMA10

'A bloody mess': council slams current basin plans

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Federal minister for NDIS Stuart Robert is set to announce an overhaul of the scheme.

Government promises NDIS overhaul

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About 69 fires are burning across NSW, with 14 of them posing a threat to properties, the RFS says.

Black Hawk helps nab arson suspect in NSW

1hr ago

Mascot Towers owners say strata committee members were made to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Mascot Towers owners 'gagged' over report

1hr ago

Health Minister Jenny Mikakos.

Hospitals hacked despite $46m investment into cybersecurity

Kyra Gillespie
1hr ago

Josh Frydenberg will offer a 15 per cent tax break on major infrastructure to boost the economy.

Tax incentive for infrastructure projects

Eamonn Tiernan
1hr ago

Protesters gathered in Melbourne after a 19-year-old teenager was shot by police on Saturday in NT.

NT shooting protest blocks Melbourne CBD

Ulises Izquierdo

Fire and emergency services heads are urging the government to act against climate change.

Act now on climate change, ex-firies urge

Aine Fox

Trista and John Stibbard and their Kelpie offsider, Rex, with 226 ewes with lambs at foot on a grazed oats paddock at Cambawarra, Coolah.

Genetic makeup pays

Mark Griggs
5m ago

Plasto and Company sold these heifers weighing an average 390kg for 278.2c/kg for Dean Grabham and Tessa Morrissey, Gollan, at Dubbo prime cattle sale last Thursday.

Heifers, an each-way bet

Mark Griggs
2hrs ago

Cutting a fire break at Yulgilbar Station where staff have been fighting fires since early September.

Black week tests fire defence

Jamie Brown

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

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The famous Hampden Bridge: a Kangaroo Valley landmark.

Savour the sights of the Shoalhaven

John Rozentals

BBQ Chilli Stingray: The flaky texture of the flesh combined with chilli and fresh lime squeezed all over is one that will surprise and delight.

A taste of Singapore, the ultimate melting pot

Scott McRae

COVER UP: While sunscreen alone is not a complete protection from sun damage, when used in conjunction with protective gear and shade it can be an effective barrier.

Be kind to skin

HealthShare

It even looks good: Reusable cleaning cloths, string bags and food storage containers can help lessen our environmental impact.

Aim for zero waste in your home

Lots to consider: Before you get another cat, there are lots of factors to consider, including your cat's age, temperament, any health conditions, and the environment you can provide for them.

Are two cats better than one?

RSPCA