Coffs Harbour, Australia News

Optus announced today it has gone live with its Time-Division LTE 4G network in Canberra, using the telco's spectrum in the 2.3GHz band.

A former Riverina AFL coach appeared in court yesterday charged with grooming a 13 year old boy at Coffs Harbour.

A ground-breaking study has found Aboriginal Australians are three times more likely to suffer dementia than non-Indigenous Australians.

There is something almost intoxicating about being surrounded by dozens of butterflies as they flutter, feast on nectar or rest in the refracted sunlight.

The sugar industry's new research & development body, Sugar Research Australia, has officially formed after being registered as a company.

A Kiwi kayaker who set off from the mid-north coast of New South Wales on Monday to resume his solo trip to New Zealand, is again heading back to shore.

Rory Dow, BerryExchange's farm manager at Sulphur Creek, samples some strawberries.

There have been dramatic scenes at a marina on the New South Wales mid-north coast after a fishing trawler caught fire and then rammed into other boats.

The 'Les Miserables' actor took on the mammoth task of digging trenches for his Plane Trees for drainage without the use of machinery at his home in Coffs Harbour, Australia, and insisted the heavy gardening work was a great workout.

A New Zealander attempting the first solo trans-Tasman kayak crossing has had to turn back after a leaking bag destroyed his satellite phone.

The Gladiator star, who was born in New Zealand but is now a resident of Australia, was among the crowds who turned out for an early morning service to mark Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance Down Under for troops who died in battle.

According to Qantas, since selling tickets on the joint network started in January, Emirates customers from Britain, Europe, North Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East have bought three times as many fares to regional centres, including Coffs Harbour, Broome and Cairns, as under the previous partnership with British Airways.

Spots in NSW coach Laurie Daley's team for Origin one are up for grabs in Coffs Harbour from 3pm.