COVID angst hits the Coast
VIDEO REPORT: The Central Coast is on tenterhooks – after five locals tested positive to COVID-19 over the weekend. 19 locations across the region have been identified as exposure sites….
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Local positive test – sparks large contact tracing effort in the north
25 July 2021 – Another Central Coast resident has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Sparking a large contracting tracing effort. Residents in the north of the Central Coast are asked to…
Four Central Coast residents test positive
BREAKING NEWS: Four Central Coast residents have tested positive. The announcement came as part of the Premier’s press conference today, Saturday July 24, 2021. Four Central Coast residents have been…
The Weekly News 5@5
You’re watching Central Coast Community News 5@5 July 23, 2021. Coming up this week: A Current Affair sent packing, Calls for a Coast to reopen , Local vaccination plans a…
Labor MPs call for COVID vaccination centre
Labor MPs on the Central Coast are calling for a mass COVID-19 vaccination centre to be established in the region. State MPs David Harris (Wyong), Liesl Tesch (Gosford), and David…
Community voices reshape council land sales
Land behind the senior citizens Centre in Gosford is off Central Coast Council’s list of Tranche 3 land sales.As have many other land assets across the Central Coast. The land…
Labor Senator calls for tradies to return to work on Friday
Labor Senator, Deborah O’Neill has weighed in on local COVID-19 restrictions to the construction industry, calling on the NSW Government to allow Central Coast tradies to return to work on…
Cooking for a community
Gosford RSL Club has stepped up to the plate to help Coast Shelter while it is impacted by the COVID-19 restrictions. With the Shelter’s volunteers are in lockdown, the Club’s…
Local travel agent appeal sets a major legal precedent
A successful appeal by a Gosford travel agent to the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal Appeals Panel (NCAT) is being hailed as setting an important legal precedent. The Australian Federation…
Craig Thomson’s home searched by AFP
The Wamberal home of former Central Coast Federal MP Craig Thomson was searched on July 21 in relation to a federal fraud investigation. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) confirmed that…
Koala Central … survey results revealed
Central Coast Council’s first ever survey of koalas across the region has revealed populations of the native marsupials in the Mangrove Creek Dam catchment and Watagan Mountains. Council Director Environment…
Bangaloe Stud developers seek to overturn original refusal
A $20M proposal to allow manufactured homes in a residential land lease arrangement at the former Bangaloe Stud at Picketts Valley has reared its head again. Residents from Kincumber, Picketts…
Tensions rise over Auditor-General’s carpark report
In the face of a recent report from the Auditor-General that a $389M Federal Government car park construction fund has been administered ineffectively, Central Coast based Senator Deborah O’Neill has…
Restrictions tighten
As the Central Coast prepares to enter its fourth week of lockdown, tighter restrictions imposed from July 19 have added to fears the lockdown could be extended beyond July 30….
A Current Affair’s local blunder
There’s been community backlash from this week’s A Current Affair article on a Wyoming gym manager that allegedly broke the public health orders. The ACA crew came from the big…
Confusing health orders cause extra stress for fragile families
The rules under current NSW Public Health Orders have been labelled confusing for separated or blended families attempting to follow custody and visitation arrangements. Under the Orders, a person may…
Rates rubber stamped to rise from August
Central Coast Council has officially rubber stamped its plans to increase rates by 15 per cent and harmonise rates across the two former Gosford and Wyong local government areas. For…
MPs offer lockdown advice
As the Coast ends its fourth week in lockdown, Member for Gosford, Liesl Tesch, has called for the Federal Government to reintroduce JobKeeper and Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast,…
Pearl Beach closer to hosting Koala colony
New funding announced for the University of Sydney’s Koala translocation study will boost the Pearl Beach Arboretum’s Koala Project. The university received research funding for studying the potential for Koala…
Chambers unite to fight Coast lockdown
The Peninsula Business Chamber is calling for the NSW Government to take the Central Coast out of the Greater Sydney COVID-19 lockdown but local MPs are not supportive. “We are…