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  Above: Costa with a Bega Valley Shire Council food and garden organics recycling truck, which is one of the strategies council is using to divert waste from landfill. Image courtesy Bega Valley Shire Council.  Bega Valley Shire Council will be holding a community information waste session at Cobargo on Monday the...

The generosity of people from across the globe to Eurobodalla bushfire relief means more locals whose homes were lost in the disaster can now apply for funding. More than $319,353 has been provided by 135 donors to the Eurobodalla Disaster Relief Fund. Thanks to the response, Eurobodalla Council has relaunched the fund’s...

Glen Stewart is wanted by police for an outstanding judicial warrant and domestic violence matters. Glen Stewart is known to frequent North Nowra, Nowra and Moruya in the South Coast and Aberdare in the Maitland area. He is aged 38 years old, approximately 180 centimetres tall and of solid build. The public are...

Rex Airlines has confirmed it will continue its Sydney-Moruya flight schedule for now. This follows the announcement from Rex on Friday that it is  intending to withdraw from the Sydney-Merimbula route, after Qantas confirmed plans to fly into Merimbula from Sydney four times a week, on a 14 week trial from...

Regional Express airlines has confirmed it will stop flying between Merimbula and Sydney no later than March next year, when the regional airline network subsidy ends. A spokesman for Rex says it wont be viable for the network to continue once Qantas comes into the market. He says the Melbourne Merimbula route...

Fire in the Grose Valley, Blue Mountains. Photo Ian Brown The federal senate bushfire inquiry has recommended the government commit to investigating fast attack strategies in its interim report, Lessons to be learned in relation to the Australian bushfire season 2019-20, handed down this week. The inquiry is one of a number to...

Above: Hum Wilkinson who was very very happy to accept this fabulous caravan wholly donated and delivered from a generous and compassionate family in the Blue Mountains.  As the Federal Government comes under fire for not doing more to help the homeless and reboot the economy with among other measures, a...

Former Tathra Sea Eagle and Queanbeyan Tiger, Tarni Evans has been selected at Pick.9 by the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the 2020 NAB AFLW Draft. (Photo: AFLW) As Evans was the first selection in her ACT/NSW, she will also receive $5,000 from NAB.  2EC Mornings caught up with Evans the morning...

  Police are reminding the community that restrictions remain in place at the NSW/Victoria border. A border 'bubble' is in existence, but even residents from either side of the border travelling within the bubble still need a permit, and NSW Police say anyone who travels to Victoria, including within the border zone,...

Staff and supporters of the Marine Discovery Centre at Eden are devastated at the closure of the tourism and education facility. The Eden Chamber says business and residential tenants of the building have been told they need to vacate by the end of the week leaving Eden without its main...