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Bandicoots and other important coastal marsupials are vulnerable to foxes, cats and loss of habitat. Image courtesy Bega Local Aboriginal Lands Council.  The Bega Local Aboriginal Land Council has completed a broad scale fox control program to help bring back small native mammals on over 1,000 hectares of Aboriginal land between...

Kim Fish and Tanya Dwyer from Seeto, Dodd and Dwyer Merimbula Pharmacy There's a festival-like atmosphere in Merimbula today as retailers and the community turn pink to support breast cancer awareness and breast care nurses.  The Merimbula Chamber of Commerce has worked with the McGrath Foundation on Pink Up Merimbula. Tania Dwyer from...

The SLS NSW-DPI Drone Trials will continue along the NSW coast during the summer-autumn of 2019/20, and will include Malua Bay Beach for the first time.  Last year Tathra and Pambula were part of the trial, with over 35 sharks spotted. Along the NSW coast over 350 sharks were spotted with beaches...

  Tulgeen Packaging Services was recently announced as a Finalist in the NSW Business Chamber Awards. “We are delighted with the announcement that Tulgeen Packaging Services has won the Regional Award for Social Enterprise” Tulgeen CEO Jen Russell said today. “What a tremendous achievement for team Tulgeen! This award reflects individual training and...

A 19-year-old Bega man who allegedly ran over 20 kangaroos at Tura Beach over the weekend, maiming and killing them has been arrested, and granted bail. Police say the man was arrested yesterday afternoon and charged with a number of offences including torture and cause the death of an animal.  It's alleged...

WITH the warmer months bringing a heightened risk of dangerous heatwaves across Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology has today reactivated its Heatwave Service to help communities and emergency services prepare for severe conditions.WITH the warmer months bringing a heightened risk of dangerous heatwaves across Australia, the Bureau of Meteorology has...

Immunisation rates for Indigenous kids on the Far South Coast are rising. Image courtesy NCIRS. Parents and local health workers are being congratulated for achieving a 100 per cent vaccination rate for First Nations children at age twelve months and again at five years old, following a comprehensive campaign. Southern NSW Local Health District...

Dancer and choreographer Cayce Hill will help Project 8 participants in Bermagui develop new dance skills that will form part of the future social media campaign focussing on 'Take Care Be Aware'. South East Arts has announced the next stage of Project 8, with workshops in Bermagui and at Bournda National Park taking...

If you know anything that could lead police to the person or people who did this terrible thing please call Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000. A joey is the sole survivor of a deliberate act of cruelty in Tura Beach on Saturday evening, when 13 kangaroos were run down on nature...

Deep Creek Dam: Eurobodalla Council is moving to water restrictions next month.  Level 1 water restrictions will come into effect on Monday 14 October. Eurobodalla Council’s infrastructure director Warren Sharpe said a dry winter and lack of significant spring rain meant the shire’s households are drawing on reserves in Deep Creek Dam. “In...