29 Jan 09 | LILIYA Johnson's naturalisation at the annual Australia Day celebrations at Speers Point Park on Monday marked another extraordinary milestone in the improbable love story of the beauty from Ukraine a...
29 Jan 09 | THE grandson of a 79-year-old woman who lost all her possessions when her Cooranbong duplex home was totally destroyed by fire last week has claimed the house would have been saved had firefighters st...
29 Jan 09 | COORANBONG teen Steph Auston finished a creditable 11th in the ITU Junior Sprint Triathlon in Canberra on Saturday, her first serious hit-out against Australia's top juniors.
She was the ninth Aust...
29 Jan 09 | COORANBONG teen Steph Auston finished a creditable 11th in the ITU Junior Sprint Triathlon in Canberra on Saturday, her first serious hit-out against Australia's top juniors.
She was the ninth Aust...
29 Jan 09 | BEIJING Olympics silver medallist Darren Bundock headlined the three-day Centennial Coal Open Cat Regatta over the Australia Day long weekend.
The Central Coast sailor Bundock, who took silver in t...
29 Jan 09 | BEIJING Olympics silver medallist Darren Bundock headlined the three-day Centennial Coal Open Cat Regatta over the Australia Day long weekend.
The Central Coast sailor Bundock, who took silver in t...
29 Jan 09 | RESIDENTS fronting Bardens Bay could only watch recently as a strong north-easterly wind blew a large oil slick across their quiet bay and into an area known for fish and duck breeding.
"It's very ...
29 Jan 09 | THE NSW Department of Planning has hit back at assertions that its new planning reform housing code gazetted in December but not effective until February 27 (not February 7 as reported in the Lakes Ma...
29 Jan 09 | YOU may be getting older and not as mobile as you once were, but in Lake Macquarie you need never be without a friend or an outing to enjoy at least once a month.
The British Australian Friendship ...
29 Jan 09 | THE citizenship ceremony at Speers Point Park on Australia Day was a big occasion for the family of Ross, Liliya and Izabella Johnson.
Not only did it see wife and mother Liliya become an Australia...
29 Jan 09 | TORONTO Workers Club lawn bowler Gayle Gannon will in May join rugby league greats Andrew Johns, Terry Pannowitz and Ned Andrews as one of 13 elite sports personalities to be inducted into the Hunter ...
29 Jan 09 | we didn't know that until my daughter ran into the house after we heard an explosion which my wife thought was from a mine or something and found she wasn't in her bedroom or anywhere and the house wa...
29 Jan 09 | AT 93, Claire Hamilton is tatting her way into the Newcastle Crafts and Quilt Show, which starts a three-day run on February 20.
Claire says tatting, intricate lacework produced using nothing more ...
29 Jan 09 | TORONTO Workers Kookaburras remain top of the Newcastle District Cricket Association competition table after a determined victory over Wallsend at Ron Hill Oval on Saturday.
Captain Paul Toole top-...
29 Jan 09 | TORONTO Workers Kookaburras remain top of the Newcastle District Cricket Association competition table after a determined victory over Wallsend at Ron Hill Oval on Saturday.
Captain Paul Toole top-...
29 Jan 09 | FORMER flying instructor Len Tuck was unable to attend the funeral of Australia's female aviation icon Nancy Bird Walton last week but his personal pilot's record book, pictured above, shows an entry ...
29 Jan 09 | GREY skies and the odd raindrop could not dampen the spirits of the 42 men, women and children welcomed as citizens at Speers Point.
Mayor Greg Piper, left, officiated the ceremony.
He, Charlton...
22 Jan 09 | RED tape has ended an era for the selfless volunteers who, rain or shine, maintain Cooranbong's pretty park.
For the past six years, Max Shanks, 71, has taken his ute into the park every day and cl...
22 Jan 09 | THE $2.5 million medical "super clinic" promised for west Lake Macquarie by the now Labor Government before the Federal election in November 2007 is a step closer to becoming a fact.
Member for Ch...
22 Jan 09 | LAKE Macquarie councillors have deferred a rezoning application for 30 hectares of a $60 million Dora Creek chicken farm to a meeting of full council for determination on Monday.
A.C. Moncrieff & S...
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