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GOOD: Alahna Ryan has been really good for the Goannas since returning to from the UNE seven comp.

PHOTOSWiradjuri Goannas are ready to pounce in semi-final

Watch The Feet dominates as positive message is promoted at knockout

PHOTOSWatch The Feet dominates as positive message is promoted at knockout

Nick Guthrie

EXPERIENCE: The knowledge of Bob Walsh was praised after he was named the new chairman of Group 11 on Sunday.

Walsh returns to take on the top job

Nick Guthrie

GOOD: Alahna Ryan has been really good for the Goannas since returning to from the UNE seven comp.

PHOTOSWiradjuri Goannas are ready to pounce in semi-final

GSOH Shield Winner: 72 Hole Championship Trophy to David Naveau.

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Cultural experience: The 20 Wellington High School students and five teachers watched football matches and toured the Real Madrid stadium while in Spain. Photo: Supplied.

PHOTOSStudents, staff return from action-packed trip to Spain

Taylor Jurd

Official opening of the revamped Wellington pool to be unveiled

Official opening of the revamped Wellington pool to be unveiled

Delicious: Ellie Hawkey flexed her creative muscles and came up with what would become a peoples choice favourite at the 2017 Wellington Cob Loaf festival the dessert cob. Photo: File.

Your chance to be a cob loaf champion at upcoming festival

Taylor Jurd

The new look includes an eight-lane Olympic Pool. Photo: Supplied.

PHOTOSWellington pool will open to the public in November

Official opening of the revamped Wellington pool to be unveiled

Official opening of the revamped Wellington pool to be unveiled

Golden Era Piano Museum owner Raymond Day-Hakker will make the move to Wellington in 2020. Photo: Mark Logan.

Neville's Golden Era Piano Museum moving to Wellington in 2020

Taylor Jurd

Malaika Mfula. Photo: Supplied.

Workshops will help build business confidence

Taylor Jurd

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

Lyndell Whyte

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

Vehicles face airbag registration ban

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Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Future Focus: connecting regional Australia

Gemma Purves

One of the greatest benefits of the digital health industry will be unprecedented equity in the services and level of patient care available.

Closing the gap

FESTIVAL: There will be plenty to see and do outside the pavilions with a variety of food and market stalls, entertainment and childrens rides.

Expo lights up Bathurst

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Good value: Pennytel customer for one month, Margaret, has already signed her husband up for a sim card, and 1GB of data all for $10.99 a month.

On the look out for exceptional customer service

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RENTAL MARKET: The region's most expensive place to rent revealed in new data. Photo: FILE

Region's rising rental costs, with one town jumping by 14 per cent

Nadine Morton

REAL ESTATE: Here's what $350,000 will buy you around the Central West and Orana. Photo: FILE

PHOTOSWhat $350,000 buys you around the Central West, Orana

Nadine Morton

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

Gemma Purves

The new look Wellington pool. Photo: Supplied.

Wellington Swimming Club to hold first swim November 19

Who will it be for 2020?: 2019 Australian of the Year award winners. Photo: Salty Dingo

32 great Aussies vying for national honours

#TrainHack participants will travel to Armidale on the XPT train.

Inaugural #Trainhack postponed due to bushfires

Make a Splash: Mayor Ben Shields at the new Wellington Aquatic Leisure Centre.

Wellington Aquatic Leisure Centre opening

Ben Shields

Use the libraries free WIFI to download books and play offline as you travel. Also perfect for when you're on your morning walk or gym session, listening while you work in the garden, keeping the kids quiet... we could go on.

A good read for the open road trip

Victoria Murray

Cultural experience: The 20 Wellington High School students and five teachers watched football matches and toured the Real Madrid stadium while in Spain. Photo: Supplied.

PHOTOSStudents, staff return from action-packed trip to Spain

Throwback Thursday: Gallery of October-December 1993 | Photos

Throwback Thursday: Gallery of October-December 1993 | Photos

Honouring the fallen: Wellington locals and ex-servicemen Chris Wyke and Roy Holmes (front) at the Remembrance Day commemorations on Monday. Photo: Taylor Jurd.

PHOTOSCommunity commemorates the fallen on Remembrance Day | Photos

Throwback Thursday: Gallery of November-December 1985 | PHOTOS

PHOTOSThrowback Thursday: Gallery of November-December 1985 | PHOTOS

GALA DAY: Isabella Attwater, Jade Widdison, Mackenzie Rooke and Makailah Murphy at the DreamCricket Gala. Photo: BELINDA SOOLE

Wellington students bowled over by DreamCricket Gala Day| Photos

Orlander Ruming

The long form TV style gives time for the exploration of landscape, stories, culture and history. Picture: Supplied.

The outback uses 'slow TV' to share stories, culture

Roxanne Fitzgerald

A tale to tell: North Haven residents Jodie and Nathan Gardner present day (left) and the Port News photo after Nathan's birth in 2009 (right).

Were you involved in a highway delivery 10 years ago?

Liz Langdale

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

Janine Graham

'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

OPINION'Pray for rain, pray harder for leadership'

Badja Sparks

Port Macquarie - a lifetime ago: Well, about a fortnight ago anyway. Photo: Brittany Daly

REAL AUSTRALIAA dollop of tolerance goes a long way

Janine Graham

Are you talking to me? Picture: Shutterstock

Are you someone who likes to talk tough?

John Malouff

RAINBOW RIBBON: Queensland AIDS Council CEO Rebecca Reynolds, Arcare CEO Colin Singh, Local Liberal state member for Bonney, Sam OConnor at the opening of Arcare Parkwood.

Queensland's first LGBTI aged care opens

OUCH: Corticosteroid injections versus orthotics.

Heel pain: to jab or not to jab?

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Polio survivors at Polio Australia's 2017 health and wellness retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

Demanding action for polio survivors

Rowan Cowley

Daniel Carrington has been found guilty of the stabbing murder of Benjamin Egan in Perth.

Perth man guilty of murdering love rival

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Senator Kristina Keneally has been reminded by refugee Behrouz Boochani Labor sent him to Manus.

Boochani lashes Labor, Kristina Keneally

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Bushfire conditions will continue to deteriorate as extremely hot air is pushed across Queensland.

Firefighters battle to save Qld homes

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Ertunc Eriklioglu, his brother and another man are charged with planning a terrorist act.

Trio to stand trial over Vic terror plot

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A Northern Territory policeman has been charged with the murder of Kumanjayi Walker, 19.

NT govt, police rule out gun ban

Greg Roberts
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Prosecutors allege Benjamin Batterham simply went too far.

NSW burglar died after 'citizen's arrest'

Mark Russell
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Rungnapha Kanbut has been jailed for intentionally possessing a slave.

Prison sentence for woman who kept slaves

Hannah Higgins
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Craig McLachlan is expected in court on Monday when his lawyers outline their defence.

Craig McLachlan to hear claims in court

Georgie Moore
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Morgan Durrant-Curtis with Australia's first Massey Ferguson baler. Morgan is a raker for her Dad's contracting business.

Women in the cab

Olivia Calver

Photo: Louise Campbell / www.facebook.com/DigitDesignStudio

Trapped by flames, firefighters dig in to save homes in Moonbi fire

Breanna Chillingworth

Trackside at Dubbo on Cup day | photos

Trackside at Dubbo on Cup day | photos

Jamian McMillan

Working out how to switch off all the lights in a hotel room shouldn't be that difficult ... should it? Picture: Supplied

When there's room for improvement

Michael Turtle

Wineglass Bay: Guests will learn about the unique animals that live there and the peninsula's history, including the pink granite peaks of the Hazards Mountains.

Have wanderlust? Here are travel news bites

The famous Hampden Bridge: a Kangaroo Valley landmark.

Savour the sights of the Shoalhaven

John Rozentals

Paul said the owners are especially happy with the rich internal palette. Images: andymacphersonstudio.com

Built to blend into Byron Bay

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The plastics and metals used to make mobile phones are valuable resources that can be recovered and made into new products, reducing the need to mine.

How is your Recycling Week going?

OMG, LOVE THIS: Stylist Julia Green says colour is the quickest and easiest way to breathe life into a room and create a dream teen retreat. Photos: Dulux Australia. Stylist: Julia Green, photographer: Armelle Habib.

Update your teen's bedroom with paint