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Is this your couch every night of the week now footy's all over the TV? No? Just mine, then.

Do star players need umpire protection?

Nick Ansell

Who is Laurie Daley's No.1 right now?

OPINIONWho makes Laurie Daley's Top 10 NRL player list?

Laurie Daley

Sanctioned: Paul Vaughan and Wayne Bennett.

The high price of an NRL biosecurity breach

Janine Graham

Is this your couch every night of the week now footy's all over the TV? No? Just mine, then.

Do star players need umpire protection?

BEST ON GROUND: All that Dustin Martin touched during the match against Brisbane turned to gold. Picture: Chris Hyde/Getty Images

OPINIONA fighting fury rises again from Tigerland

Rohan Connolly

Eye on women's bowls

Eye on women's bowls

Di Lewis

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. Picture: Getty Images

Queensland closes border to ACT and NSW

Kathryn Lewis

The best venue to watch the spectacle of Uluru is Longitude 131 with a gathering of luxury pavilions nestled among the rust-red landscape. The desert base fans out from the Dune House, site of lounging, cocktails and rock gazing.

The hottest events to thaw out at this spring

Melinda Healy

Dive to see beautiful underwater sculptures, crafted by Jason deCaires Taylor, while learning about the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef. Picture: Supplied

Luxury hotel brand to open its first Australian resort

Explore Travel

Photographer Sallie Colechin's solo exhibition will open at DFunk Gallery on Friday.

Second show at new art gallery in Wingham

Susan from Wingham Library will be among the presenters featured on Zoom Storytime. Photo MidCoast Council

Library storytime goes Zoom

The bushfire recovery webinar will explore what role Landcare has in helping the environment recover. Photo: Julia Driscoll

Bushfire recovery webinar open for registrations

Photographer Sallie Colechin's solo exhibition will open at DFunk Gallery on Friday.

Second show at new art gallery in Wingham

Virtual booth: TAFE NSW is one of the exhibitors at the My Journey virtual careers expo. Photo: supplied

Free vocational careers expo for high school students

Imogen Clark and Blues Arcadia are included in the 2020 Wingham Akoostik 'Down the Street' lineup. Photos supplied

Wingham Akoostik announces 'Down the Street' lineup for 2020

Read Mid North Coast Now here

Read Mid North Coast Now here

Ruth Lewis

Spring clean your life and finances

Spring clean your life and finances

Emma Brown

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Emma Brown

Read Mid North Coast Now here

Read Mid North Coast Now here

The path back to a new normal

The path back to a new normal

Emma Brown

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Everyone's a winner with Pennytel

Emma Brown

Read Three Valleys Domain here

Read Three Valleys Domain here

Ruth Lewis

RENTAL TRENDS: Nationally, rent values declined 0.3% in the month of June, and 0.5% over the quarter. Photo - Shutterstock.

Rental market changes course

Ruth Lewis

2020 Winner: Cantala Avenue House wins this year's Australian House of the Year Photo - Christopher Frederick Jones.

Humble restoration defines the true meaning of home

Ruth Lewis

Mid Coast 2 Tops held a beekeeping workshop. Photo supplied

Landcare Week: get connected with environment in local community

Zander Knowles and Bentley Minns enjoy the fun and games during the Year Six Fundraiser fun day.

Joey's Journal: St Joseph's Primary School photo gallery

Cub, Chia, Cruze and Bree Ryan enjoying lunch at the Little Red Cafe.

Out and About in Wingham | Photos

Mid Coast 2 Tops held a beekeeping workshop. Photo supplied

Landcare Week: get connected with environment in local community

Beware of scams that impersonate government organisations. Some scammers calim they are from the Australian Tax Office.

Scamwatch: Don't fall for tax time scams

Therapuetic donation: Artist Ron Hindmarsh presenting the painting to Tinonee RFS life member Bert Bennett on behalf of the community. Photo: supplied

Tribute to Tinonee firies for Black Summer heroics

This might be a fun roller coaster. The COVID numbers roller coaster is not.

DIGESTThe COVID numbers roller coaster is real

Victoria records 471 new COVID-19 cases, mental health support boosted

Victoria records 471 new COVID-19 cases, mental health support boosted

Several Newcastle venues have been closed for cleaning, with patrons asked to be on the lookout for symptoms.

NSW reports 12 new COVID-19 cases, with Newcastle put on high alert

Australia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

NATIONALAustralia coronavirus live updates: New restrictions kick in

An aircraft drops fire retardant on Mt Tennant earlier this year. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

Call for domestic firefighting foam manufacturer amid COVID-19 supply chain issues

Katie Burgess

Images from regional Australia. Taken by, from left clockwise, Brendan McCarthy, Jonathan Carroll, Lachlan Bence and Adam McLean.

DIGESTIt's going to get worse before it gets better

Janine Graham

Mask wearing has become common place for many in NSW. Picture: Adam McLean.

All NSW residents returning from Victoria must now enter hotel quarantine

Kate McIlwain

Hundreds more coronavirus cases, man in his 30s dies

NATIONALHundreds more coronavirus cases, man in his 30s dies

Janine Graham

Photo: Sally-Ann Thompson

From southern NSW to Tasmania, it's been a white Wednesday

Matterson Knyvett captured the moment a goanna latched onto his ankle while out on the job.

Is that a goanna wrapped around your ankle?

A beautiful sight as the baby boy's family checks he is doing ok after the birth on Monday, August 3. Picture: Mogo Wildlife Park.

Watch mother giraffe's first moments with baby son

Cub, Chia, Cruze and Bree Ryan enjoying lunch at the Little Red Cafe.

Out and About in Wingham | Photos

During: The cattle pavilion being demolished. Photo: Elaine Turner

Out with the old at Wingham Showground | Photos & Video

Sam Brownrigg

More restrictions are expected to be revealed for COVID-hit Victoria.

NATIONALAustralia coronavirus live updates: schools close

Janine Graham

FAMILY: Margaret Gabbedy-Hayes has been caring for her son since he collapsed with bleeding on the brain about two years ago. Picture: Brodie Weeding

How one community organisation helped rescue Matthew

Jackson Worthington

These brave Bunnings staff members came face to face with a woman later dubbed a "Karen".

Why 'Karen'? We asked sociology and language experts

Jackson Worthington

Remember to mind your manners ... please | Mind Matters

OPINIONRemember to mind your manners ... please | Mind Matters

John Malouff

FUTURE: John Hewson says we owe Australia's youth a better future. Photo: SHUTTERSTOCK

OPINIONDon't leave Australia's youth to pay the price | Hewson's View

John Hewson

Fire tore through Tathra, NSW and surrounds in March 2018.

REAL AUSTRALIATime has come to learn from the frightening facts

Hayley Warden

Qantas flight attendant Sara Armbrecht at the Qantas Founders Museum holding two dolls dressed in her minature Qantas uniforms: a Pucci unform worn 1974 to 1985 (left) and the current uniform designed by Martin Grant.

Flights of fashion: Doll collection celebrates century of Qantas uniforms

Geraldine Cardozo

Reforms for NSW retirement villages.

Retirement village reforms welcomed

Eileen Wood

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

The death toll from the Beirut port explosion is expected to keep rising.

Beirut blast a terrible accident: Morrison

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A 12-year-old girl is missing from Kilcoy, Queensland.

Schoolgirl, 12, missing in Queensland

NSW is the first state to usher in new defamation laws spearhead by Attorney General Mark Speakman.

Modern defamation law reform passed in NSW

Patrick Kear was most likely a homicide victim though his body has never been found, a coroner says.

'Homicide' behind missing NSW man's death

Premier Steven Marshall says SA has been able to put a "net" over a COVID-19 cluster in Adelaide.

SA school closes as COVID-19 cluster grows

Tim Dornin

Victoria recorded 471 new COVID-19 cases and eight more deaths on Thursday.

Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact

A manslaughter victim's partner sobbed in the Supreme Court as she described their relationship.

Melbourne man killed over affair claims

Georgie Moore

Some building site workers have better PPE than doctors and nurses, one health body has warned.

States could repeat Vic health 'failures'

Callum Godde

LiDAR technology is being used to estimate the volume of floodplain harvesting captured in water storages in the Northern Basin. Photo: NSW Government

Australian first: NSW floodplain harvesting policy unveiled

Daniel Pedersen

Richard Keniry with some of his Merinos at Kildara, Eurimbla between Wellington and Cumnock.

Water utilisation needed a rethink as ground cover increased at Kildara

Mark Griggs

Top price $13,000 Tivoli Proceed P42 with auctioneer Paul Dooley, agent Francis Buffier, new owner Andrew Wallings, Wallings Pastoral Co, Cassilis and stud principal Hugh Kraeeft, Tivoli Angus.

Tivoli bull sale

Kylie Raines

OUCH: Ligament, sporting or trauma injury are typically behind keen pain in under 30s.

Get a handle on knee pain with the help of your GP

Healthshare

Revenue from rego wouldn't even maintain the roads we have, let alone build new ones.

It may hurt to hear, but most road aren't even made for you

Sam Hollier

How to eliminate fire hazards while working from home

How to eliminate fire hazards while working from home