Thursday, 28th August
NB, PW
The opening of a BreastScreen permanent service in Mona Vale means that around 16,000 women aged 50-74 from the Upper Northern Beaches area now have access to the service within 20 minutes of their home. Around 1000 women have already had...
Wednesday, 27th August
NS, NBS, PW
It’s set to be a rush in the city this weekend as runners take part in the TCS Sydney Marathon and other events on 30 to 31 August. Organisers expect that 35,000 runners will take on the 42km course, which starts...
PW
Northern Beaches Deputy Mayor and management consultant Georgia Ryburn has been selected by the NSW Liberals to contest the Pittwater by-election on 19 October. Georgia is a fourth-generation Northern Beaches local, raising her two kids here with her husband, and she...
NBS
Will secondary school changes make the grade? The NSW Department of Education is considering a move to co-educational campuses for Northern Beaches Secondary College, as well as the removal of selective status for the Manly site. The school has five campuses, including...
NS
Dozens plead in person to retain North Sydney Kylea Tink has made a very personal speech to an Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) inquiry in a last-ditch effort to stop her seat of North Sydney from abolition. The embattled MP was invited to...
NB
Pittwater is without an MP following the shock resignation of Rory Amon over allegations of historical child sexual assault. On Friday 30 August, Police charged Mr Amon with 10 counts of sexual assault of a child alleged to have occurred in...
PW
Failure to nominate ends campaign for 6 councillors The failure of the Liberal Party to nominate its six sitting councillors on the Northern Beaches has wiped the party out of power on a future council, stymieing attempts at gaining the mayoral...
NS
Food delivery e-bikers targeted in safety push Willoughby City Council is taking action to address e-bike safety, particularly for food delivery riders, following reports of unsafe riding. At a council meeting on 24 June, several courses of action were agreed upon following...
NB
Hopes DV event will spark charge Organisers of the first conference on domestic violence (DV) on the Beaches are hoping it will kickstart a movement to stop one in four women being killed every four days in Australia by an intimate...
PW
Scamps calls for urgent action against diabetes Independent Federal Member for Mackellar Dr Sophie Scamps has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement a proposed 20 per cent levy on sugar-sweetened beverages, as Australia wallows in a diabetes epidemic. A House...
NS
Kylea Tink pushes to plead her case The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is likely to hold an inquiry over the proposed abolition of the seat of North Sydney, following the receipt of hundreds of objections to the move. Last month, the independent...
PW
Dob in the dumpers, says council Council is cracking down on illegal dumping, with over 1,500 cases reported from January to June this year, and has encouraged the community to report incidents of dumping. Council recently prosecuted and issued a $1,000 fine...