Unexploded bomb causes Mid North Coast beach to evacuate

Unexploded bomb causes Mid North Coast beach to evacuate

The army has been called to a popular tourist beach in Port Macquarie to detonate and remove a device found in the water on Saturday.

  • bySally Rawsthorne

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‘Stuck in the past’:Push to remove statue of ‘racist’ Australian prime minister
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‘Stuck in the past’:Push to remove statue of ‘racist’ Australian prime minister

A statue erected for the centenary of Federation in 2001 could be removed because of an “explicitly racist” legacy.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Doctors left dying dad ‘spouting blood’ after horror hospital fall
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Doctors left dying dad ‘spouting blood’ after horror hospital fall

Of five potentially preventable deaths at hospitals across regional NSW uncovered by a Herald investigation,only one is under investigation by the coroner.

  • byCarrie Fellner
Families get closure 79 years after WWII steamer torpedoed by Japanese

Families get closure 79 years after WWII steamer torpedoed by Japanese

Relatives of the 32 sailors who lost their lives in the sinking of the World War II steamship Wollongbar 79 years ago had their first opportunity to lay wreaths over the site where it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine.

  • byTim Barlass
‘We feel defeated’:Residents frustrated as town cut off by phone,internet outages

‘We feel defeated’:Residents frustrated as town cut off by phone,internet outages

Residents of a small town in regional NSW have grown weary of standing near a window,or in the paddock next to a house,trying to a get one bar of service to send a text message.

  • byMegan Gorrey
Hospital boss under fire after staff lose ‘pieces of skin’ in brutal attack
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Hospital boss under fire after staff lose ‘pieces of skin’ in brutal attack

A hospital executive has apologised to staff over the “exceptional” and “one-off” event.

  • byCarrie Fellner
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Where buyers splashed the most cash on sea changes last year

Where buyers splashed the most cash on sea changes last year

City dwellers poured cash into coastal property last year and the trend is showing no signs of slowing as Omicron prompts corporate Australia to set up the home office again.

  • byElizabeth Redman
Eddie Obeid’s son spruiked development plan – and now one has appeared next door

Eddie Obeid’s son spruiked development plan – and now one has appeared next door

Gerard Obeid was touting the development potential of a beachfront street years before a man known to his family bought up next door.

  • byAngus Thompson
Fires,floods and now lockdown:On the coast,businesses are hanging by a thread

Fires,floods and now lockdown:On the coast,businesses are hanging by a thread

The statewide lockdown is putting pressure on small businesses regardless of whether they are in a virus hotspot or not.

  • byAnna Patty
Hotel review:Macquarie Waters Boutique Apartment Hotel,Port Macquarie

Hotel review:Macquarie Waters Boutique Apartment Hotel,Port Macquarie

If it's been a long time since you've docked yourself at Port Macquarie,prepare to be surprised.

  • byJane Richards
Port Macquarie:$8m in bushfire donations funds world-first wild koala breeding program in NSW

Port Macquarie:$8m in bushfire donations funds world-first wild koala breeding program in NSW

The notoriously difficult task of breeding koalas for the wild may become a reality thanks to an outpouring of donations in the wake of last summer's bushfires.

  • byAnthony Dennis