Although Ben Tudhope grew up on the sandy Northern Beaches, he fell in love with the snow at a young age, leading him to secure a Paralympic bronze medal in snowboarding. Local Ben Tudhope, who has left hemiplegic cerebral palsy, has...

Our community is well accustomed to staying at home: working, studying, parenting and caring. Despite living in an era of plenty and convenience, under lockdown we have experienced restricted access to consumer goods, prompting some to aim for increased self-sufficiency at...

Following the release of her latest single and ahead of her highly anticipated album debut, North Shore Living sat down with Killara local Kota Banks (aka Jessica Porfiri) to chat about inspiration, self-empowerment, and the novel world of NFTs. Growing up...

Ensemble hosts The Smith Family From Monday 18th July to Thursday 21st July, Kirribilli’s Ensemble Theatre hosted a new program in partnership with charity The Smith Family. The program offered disadvantaged young people the opportunity to experience the full scope of the...

Six months into his term in office, North Shore Living sat down with Willoughby MP Tim James to talk family, community, and the local projects he’s passionate about. Tim James has only been the Member for Willoughby since his victory in...

Retired Rochelle Ward couldn’t sit still for too long before putting her hand up to volunteer with one of Pittwater’s most crucial services. Marine Rescue Broken Bay is an independent, volunteer-run not-for-profit dedicated to keeping Pittwater’s boating community safe on the...

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...