Northern Beaches Clean Up Crew’s Malin Frick is encouraging locals to think about their purchases during Plastic Free July and join the next clean up at the end of the month. With her shock of blonde hair and film star looks,...

If you grew up on the North Shore, chances are you would have spent at least one late night belting your heart out to John Watson at the iconic Minskys Hotel. Known as the last place to stop by on your...

Swim coach offers free lessons for refugees A Warriewood local is teaching lifesaving skills to children that have fled war in Ukraine. Toni Roebuck, owner and manager of Warriewood’s Splashed swim school, has been donating swimming lessons to Ukrainian children that recently...

A double decker bus, bound for St. Leonards, left Manly wharf at 10.38am with 45 passengers, mostly women, on board. As it rounded the final bend on the steep descent down Sydney Road to the Spit Bridge it swerved suddenly...

Christianity was the dominant religion in Australia for more than two centuries. From the second half of the 19th century, churches mushroomed across New South Wales. In the ever-expanding Sydney of the mid-to-late 1800s, populations grew so that the £500...

Peninsula Living caught up with local renowned journalist, television producer, author and pioneer of the Australian media landscape, Anita Jacoby, to discuss her personal new book. When we sit down with Anita Jacoby, she’s open about her life in Pittwater, her...

After finishing a science degree in zoology and ecology and a PHD focusing on ants, Professor Lesley Hughes switched her focus to researching climate change and fighting to stop our climate crisis. “Once I started reading about it, I got more...

Most readers will know that the suburb and beach to the immediate north of Queenscliff has flirted over the years with the names Freshwater and Harbord. The Freshwater name came first and arose locally and naturally. It applied to the beach,...

In April 2020, the International Monetary Fund declared the worldwide ‘Great Lockdown’ to be the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Last year did not see much in the way of global recovery. It will be for future historians...

In 1909 the Newport ‘township’ was located on the shore of Pittwater, near the wharf. The surf beach and adjacent land was privately owned, part of the Farrell farm. Despite this, a surf lifesaving club was formed at Newport in December...