Brad Esposito

Mid North Coast receives additional $56 million in funding for flood recovery

Here's where the money is actually going.

Weather

🟡 How to race a camel

Plus why a Mid North Coast volunteer has given decades to Surf Life Saving and Freestyle Kings come to the Kempsey Show.

🟡 Kempsey is a flood zone. Why stay?

Including: What it's like living and working on a flood zone – and what's happening with the Great Koala National Park.

🟡 Locals know best

Including: Emergency Department visits at Mid North Coast hospitals hit record high and grass-root solutions to disaster response from an SES volunteer.

🟡 Slim Dusty, who's that?

Including: Kempsey student's big ideas for their town and the next step toward an affordable housing project coming to the MNC.

🟡 There's no place like (an affordable) home

Including: Forestry NSW fined for illegal logging near Coffs Harbour and what will happen to Port Macquarie residents relying on the National Rental Affordability Scheme.

🟡 Waterfall Way is closed but Bello isn't

Including: Where high levels of microplastics have been found on the MNC, why blue dragons washed ashore, how a local koala inspired a Cresso's newest mural and Bellingen businesses impacted by confusion over landslip.

🟡 Flood-proofed roads

Including: Why Coffs Harbour wants police to have live access to public cameras.

🟡 Your local news in 6 mins

Including: Why the hydrotherapy pool in Kempsey failed to reopen after the pandemic, top picks for cheap eats in Port, and how reducing impact of disasters could make flood cover more affordable.

🟡 The best walks on the MNC

Including: Disaster funding for Bellingen Shire, MidCoast council out of pocket $37M waiting for recovery reimbursement, the gov't plan to reduce extreme weather impact.

🎉 Our 100th newsletter

Including: Kempsey Council's plea fur urgent help dealing with anti social behaviour and MidCoast aquatic centres switch to solar.

🟡 Is this the best MNC pie?

Including: What's on in March and what it's like for families living in flood-prone zones who can't afford cover.

🟡 Running up that Windmill Hill

Including: Remembering a "trailblazer", local councils in disaster debt and how MNC residents are making their homes more sustainable.

Coalition in tatters as Cowper MP Pat Conaghan joins Nationals exodus from Shadow Ministry

The nation's opposition party finds itself split for the second time in months – this time over Labor's proposed hate speech laws.

Politics

WATCH: Meet the people behind Bellingen's Alternatives Bookshop

The local institution has everything from books on mushroom foraging to quantum physics.

Local Business

Insurance catastrophe declared after devastating flooding on the Mid North Coast

Earlier this week, almost 5000 insurance claims had already been recorded by the Insurance Council of Australia.