17 Dec 09 | NINETEEN of the 30 or so workers at the Home Pride Dora Creek egg processing plant launched indefinite strike action on Monday to seek "proper award pay and entitlements".
If successful, many o
17 Dec 09 | THE concept of being a partner in your own district bank is gathering pace at Bonnells Bay.
"We are happy to report thatwe have $400,000 in pledges," project steering committee member Col Roac
17 Dec 09 | WE agreed not to use her family name, but single mum Christine, 39, from Cooranbong, has a real problem with her four-year-old son Balie.
He sleeps just five hours a day or less and is permanen
17 Dec 09 | WYONG Shire Council is demanding homes in its local government area be built up to one metre above previous flood planning levels due to forecast risks of climate-change-induced sea-level rises.
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17 Dec 09 | MARTINSVILLE, arguably one of the prettiest residential-rural areas in Lake Macquarie, is also one of the most vulnerable during a high fire risk season.
Which is why Martinsville's own Rural F
17 Dec 09 | ILLEGAL jetties in Lake Macquarie are back under the microscope with the third crackdown in as many decades.
This time Lake Macquarie City Council is the authority on the offensive and it also
17 Dec 09 | CATHERINE Wildman uses a borrowed Dyson vacuum cleaner with a special filter to protect her 21/2-year-old chronically asthmatic daughter, Jessie, from minute airborne dust particles while vacuuming th
17 Dec 09 | THREE members from Cooranbong SES have been presented with long service medals at the recent Hunter Region State Emergency Service's annual presentation night in Maitland.
Dieter Gescke, acting
17 Dec 09 | MORE than a decade ago Gold Coast developer Ian McDonald bought the old Wangi power station and started the ball rolling with Lake Macquarie City Council to turn it into a multimillion-dollar centre f
17 Dec 09 | PREPARATION work for the long-awaited Warnervale town centre is set to begin early in the new year, State Member for Wyong David Harris said on Tuesday.
At a meeting hosted by the State Governm
17 Dec 09 | colleagues in Victoria instead of the $17.90 they actually get, and that means many of them would be eligible for back pay in excess of $25,000 and permanent job status.
"Despite the fact that
10 Dec 09 | G'DAY. Did you see those scientists on telly the other night, patting feeding sharks on their snouts?
Apparently they came across a pack of tiger sharks feeding off the carcass of a dead whale,
10 Dec 09 | HE'S earned, really earned, the title of NSW Volunteer of the Year but Michael Cowan says he doesn't have a clue why he taught himself how to ride a unicycle and then perilously pedalled the one-wheel
10 Dec 09 | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd may be going to Copenhagen without an Australian climate battle plan being approved, but he will have the moral support of Australian Girl Guide Allison Hooper.
Allis
10 Dec 09 | GREG Piper, Member for Lake Macquarie, is cynical of the claimed unbiased role of the NSW Government utilities price regulator, IPART.
Mr Piper says he has "serious doubts about IPART's so call
10 Dec 09 | FEDERAL member for Charlton Greg Combet has announced a further $180,000 for elderly residents in Lake Macquarie and Newcastle to remain in their homes longer.
Mr Combet said the funding was pa
10 Dec 09 | FOR 97-year-old Bert Gambrill, his house was his castle.
It was where he moved with his bride Jean after their 1938 marriage and where he brought up his three children, Neil, Noel and Cheryl.B
10 Dec 09 | MOTORISTS travelling along Morisset's Dora Street main road confronted a new obstacle on Tuesday afternoon when the RTA flicked the switch on a new set of traffic lights at the Short Street intersecti
10 Dec 09 | POLICE have recovered all six sea kayaks stolen from Avondale College in October.
The boats, valued around $15,000, have been returned to the college and are back in service.
"I am delig
10 Dec 09 | HARD times are nothing new for Vince Leonello.
Last week he effectively became a barrow boy without a barrow, trying to sell second-hand goods piled on the ground at the side of the street in t
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