Many readers will know of and have perhaps traversed the hand cut tunnel or ‘wormhole’ through the headland at Queenscliff.   If they searched to find its origin, they would have learnt, ‘it was dug out in 1908 by local fishermen...

Binem ‘Bill’ Grunstein was among the first of the 170,000 ‘displaced persons’ who came to Australia after the upheaval of the Second World War, between 1949 and 1954. He was a holocaust survivor who had stayed alive by wits and his...

Avalon-based oil painter Nada Herman was always destined to become an artist. With her grandfather an award-winning artist and growing up in a house with an artistic father, it was no surprise a young Nada reached for the paints and hasn’t...

Before the introduction of television in 1956, Australians were great cinema goers. Picture show attendance increased steadily from the 1920s until the seismic social shift that was television. In 1935, when the state’s population was 2.6 million, there had been over 9.7...

HammondCare | Narrabeen Hammondcare is searching for volunteers to visit local aged care residents in a social capacity. Enthusiastic and caring Northern Beaches locals are sought to provide companionship and enrich the lives of elderly or frail members of the community. You will...

Residents of Newport may perhaps imagine that their suburb was named after Newport in Wales or, alternatively, Newport Rhode Island. In fact, it was christened, literally, as New Port. Prior to its naming it was referred to briefly as the...

North Shore Living finds out how local James Spenceley went from not knowing what to do to help people in Ukraine, to fundraising and supplying ambulances to the areas that need it most. North Sydney Councillor, James Spenceley, says he knew...

‘Humble’ is the word that comes to mind when North Shore Living chats with renowned cook, writer, television presenter and proud Chatswood local, Adam Liaw. Despite being a household name, the Malaysian-born, South Australian lawyer-turned-chef has a disarming modesty when speaking...

Dee Why’s Darelle Ratcliff and her two daughters recently walked 500 kilometres, from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to West Wyalong, to raise money for Dementia Australia. After their plans to embark on the mammoth trek were put on hold last year...

Sydney has been in a constant cycle of building, demolition and redevelopment since the earliest European structures were erected. While development pressure was less intense on the lower North Shore through the 1800s, between 1905 and 1911 the population of North...