ABC Coffs Coast

01/09/2026

Vigils have been held across the region as the sun set last night, bringing people together to pay tribute for those missing in the Nepal/Tibet floods.

An event was held in Kempsey organised by Sabina Adhikari and captured here by Anika Malcolm and Mayor Kinne Ring.

Organisers and vice president of the Port Macquarie Nepalese Community group Pravin Gaire says last night's vigil was an opportunity for locals to come together for support and to share their grief.

"In our country if we want to celebrate, we celebrate together, if we want to share condolences, we all stand together with those people effected, this is how our culture is."

"Our heart is there even though we are here. We wanted to get everybody together and to let everybody know we are united and together."

31/08/2026

Five labour-hire firms across the Coffs Coast have been ordered to stop work in certain areas after a SafeWork NSW blitz.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-31/safework-blitz-on-modern-slavery-coffs-coast-riverina-farms/107096906

27/08/2026

Smile, it's Friday! ☺️

The sunrise has lit up our skies with amazing colours across the region this morning, with Jeff Holmes capturing this face-like moment at Sawtell Beach. 🌅

What did the sunrise look like where you are?

26/08/2026

ABC Mid North Coast Breakfast team were broadcasting live from Rollands Plains school this morning.

It was book week parade and presenter Cameron Marshall and rural reporter Lauren Bohane were chatting to some students and teachers about what they love about where they live for ABC's You Say project.

26/08/2026

Coffs Coast banana farmers struggle to make sense of a decision that removes their produce from the shelves of a major local supermarket.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-26/coffs-coast-banana-farmers-contract-with-coles-ends/107074986

26/08/2026

Police say 320 aquaculture oyster bags containing 400,000 juvenile oysters were stolen from a property near Taree.

An oyster business on the New South Wales Mid North Coast estimates as much as $400,000 worth of its stock has been stolen.

25/08/2026

A lot of love for Dolly on your local ABC airwaves this morning!

Paul in Glenreagh called in and thanked her "for all her lovely tunes" like Silver Dagger.

While Chris from Coffs Harbour said the true beauty of Dolly was not her looks or her clothes it was her wonderful heart

Tell us your memories of Dolly.

25/08/2026

The halting of an aerial cull at the Yuraygir National Park, north of Coffs Harbour, for two weeks has reignited debate about brumbies.

Aerial culls in a northern NSW national park stall following an injunction from an anti-brumby culling advocate.

24/08/2026

A 47 year old man will front bail court today charged with the alleged domestic violence murder of his former partner Megan Tangye, in Port Macquarie in December last year.

A man has been arrested and charged with domestic violence murder and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, eight months after police allege he killed his partner.

23/08/2026

Don't get between this masked lapwing plover and her babies🐣

Thanks to Liz McGinness who snapped this feathered family on the Coffs Coast. Be mindful of steer clear of this protected species and their nests over the coming weeks and months.