NOMINATIONS for the 2025 Australia Day Awards are still open and will close on Friday, 18 October 2024. Dungog Shire Council is inviting the community to nominate individuals, organisations and teams in the following award categories: Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message us.

TRADITION will be honoured at the Stroud Showground as the town’s annual Brick and Rolling Pin Throwing Competition returns on Sunday, 6 October. The competition has its roots in the 1960s, when brick-making towns from Stroud in the UK and the USA held an inaugural contest, with Australia and Canada

A DRAFT plan of management for the Stroud Showground is on public exhibition from 18 September to Sunday 3 November 2024. The draft plan includes detailed actions that identify management strategies and new proposed facilities for Stroud Showground. Advertise with News of The Area today. It's worth it for your business. Message

IN AN effort to improve the region’s water security, Hunter Water is rolling out a range of new leak detection technologies. Hunter Water Managing Director Darren Cleary says detecting and fixing leaks is a key priority, with recent initiatives achieving a 27 percent reduction in leakage across the organisation's 5000-kilometre

DUNGOG has its own dedicated and free weekly newspaper once more. Operated by independent media company News Of The Area (NOTA), the Dungog edition is the publisher’s seventh newspaper in the Mid North Coast and Hunter regions. News Of The Area Director Mick Wright is excited to bring a quality printed