Tag: central coast
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INSIDE THE 40 YEAR OLD SECRET GARDEN ON THE CENTRAL COAST
A 40-year-old secret garden has now been made open to the public. NBN News reveals to you the wonders of Paradise Plants Gardens as reporter Sarah El-Moselhi takes you on a journey to a place that’s been hidden since the seventies.
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QUEENSLAND MAN ARRESTED OVER CENTRAL COAST DRUG LAB
A Queensland man’s been extradited to New South Wales to face drug charges after he was charged over a clandestine drug lab on the Central Coast. The 64-year-old man was pulled over by Brisbane Water Police in December 2016 and an amount of methamphetamine was allegedly found in his car. Police then searched his home…
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MAN DIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY AUDI ON THE CENTRAL COAST
A 61-year-old pedestrian has died after being struck by a car at Point Frederick on the Central Coast. An Audi being driven by a 63-year-old man struck the pedestrian on the Central Coast Highway just after 7.30 on Thursday night. The injured man was taken to Gosford Hospital where he died. The driver wasn’t injured.…
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MAN LEFT IN CRITICAL CONDITION AFTER CENTRAL COAST MOTORCYCLE CRASH
A 24-year-old man is in a critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on the Central Coast overnight. At about 8:55pm, emergency services were called to a carpark on the Pacific Highway in Charmhaven. Police believe that a learner-rider was leaving the carpark when he lost control and fell from his motorcycle. The man was taken…
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HARVEST FESTIVAL NETS MILLIONS FOR CENTRAL COAST ECONOMY
The long weekend’s Harvest Festival has been mooted as a success. Attractions like getting up close with farmyard friends, vegetable picking demonstrations, and rifling for pecans netting a sizeable $8 million for the local tourism economy. While council says the number of those playing farmer for a day doubled on last year’s figures: 32,000 people…
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EXPERTS WARN LEADERS TO BLAME FOR SLUMP IN BUSINESS CONFIDENCE
The Federal Election is hurting business confidence and the economy is suffering, according to the latest quarterly survey by the New South Wales Business Chamber. It shows the uncertainty in government has put the brakes on investment and opportunities nationwide. And on the Central Coast frustration mounts with more and more skilled workers taking their…
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WOODEN’S TIGERS TEAR ROASTED ROOSTERS BY 44 POINTS
Returning to league and there were some big margins in the Central Coast competition in round three. Kincumber defeated Northern Lakes 22-6, Terrigal downed Berkeley Vale 28-8, while Erina belted Ourimbah 50-12. And it was an even bigger showing for the Tigers, smashing the Roosters 50-6.
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CENTRAL COAST DRAWS THE SHORTEN STRAW WITH FUNDING
Traffic jams, crowds and cheers – the Bill Shorten campaign arrived on the Central Coast this morning, but announced only one election sweetener for the region. Labor’s promising to fast track $60 million worth of vital road works, that would otherwise take more than a decade to complete. And that was all the Central Coast…
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“MOUNTAIN SOUNDS” CALLS IT QUITS AMID GOVERNMENT DRUG CRACKDOWN
Popular Central Coast music festival ‘Mountain Sounds’, has called it quits, less than a week out from the event. Organisers are laying the blame on the state government’s ‘war on festivals’… saying they couldn’t meet last minute demands, made mandatory following a spate of recent drug-related deaths.
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CENTRAL COAST MUSIC FESTIVAL CANCELLED
Central Coast music festival, “Mountain Sounds” has been cancelled. Organisers are claiming it’s a result of the State government’s ‘war on drugs’ after they were forced to pay an additional $200,000 on around the clock police presence. The event wrote on its Facebook page that further conditions and financial obligations imposed, were “impossible to meet”.…