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Disappointment over deferred tourism rate

Denise Dion

Crash on Arthur Kaine Drive at 3pm, Friday, October 19.

Learner driver crashes into pedestrian footpath

Claudia Ferguson

CHARACTERS: Just some of the characters who turned up to last year's Steampunk event. The colourful event returns to the Goulburn Waterworks this weekend.

Steampunk mania descends on Goulburn

David Cole

Eden folk get ready for whale of a time

Rachel Mounsey

Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Town Crier Alan Moyse will be swinging his bell and crying out for peace at the Merimbula War Memorial this coming Remembrance Day. Picture: Rachel Mounsey

Bega Valley Town Crier to join cry for world peace

Rachel Mounsey

You've got this: Notes of encouragement posted at the entrance of the Eden Marine High School hall where HSC students are sitting their final year exams.

Students smash through start of HSC exams | VIDEO

Claudia Ferguson, Rachel Mounsey

South Coast development manager Greg Richards-Riches of Cricket NSW.

Schools go cricket crazy | PHOTOS

Claudia Ferguson

Disappointment over deferred tourism rate

Denise Dion

Crash on Arthur Kaine Drive at 3pm, Friday, October 19.

Learner driver crashes into pedestrian footpath

Claudia Ferguson

South Coast development manager Greg Richards-Riches of Cricket NSW.

Schools go cricket crazy | PHOTOS

THRILLER: The Merimbula Knights pulled off a thrilling one wicket victory against crosstown rivals Pambula on Saturday at the Pambula Sporting Complex. Picture: Supplied

Knights win one-wicket thriller against Bluedogs

Alasdair McDonald

Australian Invictus athlete Jamie Tanner will compete in his third and final Games in Sydney.

Winning isn't everything at Invictus Games

Belinda Tasker

South Coast development manager Greg Richards-Riches of Cricket NSW.

Schools go cricket crazy | PHOTOS

Claudia Ferguson

THRILLER: The Merimbula Knights pulled off a thrilling one wicket victory against crosstown rivals Pambula on Saturday at the Pambula Sporting Complex. Picture: Supplied

Knights win one-wicket thriller against Bluedogs

CHIN MUSIC: Far South Coast U14 cricket team action from this year's Canberra Southern Cross Club Kookaburra Cup. Picture: Far South Coast Cricket Association

Nic and Angus claim Kookaburra Cup awards

Thomas Deng (l) and Awer Mabil have opened sporting doors for African-born sportsmen in Australia.

African Australians blaze sporting pathway

Steve Larkin

Jazzy: The Down South Jazz Club is excited to announce Queen Of Boogie – Jan Preston Duo to perform at Club Sapphire on Thursday, October 25. Picture: Supplied.

Boogie woogie queen

Acoustic music champions coming to Nethercote Hall

Apostle String Band Tour

Bowls academy: Bowls development officer Michael Wilks will lead the coaching clinics with a hand picked committee at Club Sapphire Merimbula.

Youth on roll; Club Sapphire launches bowls clinic for under 18s

Jazzy: The Down South Jazz Club is excited to announce Queen Of Boogie – Jan Preston Duo to perform at Club Sapphire on Thursday, October 25. Picture: Supplied.

Boogie woogie queen

Jazz musicians Alex Stuart, Kade Brown and Carl Morgan will present a combined 'min-festival' for Zephyrs Jazz and Four Winds this month.

Zephyrs brings young jazz trio back home

COLLABORATION: Singer-songwriter Corinne Gibbons is performing with Mo Pleasure in Bega on Friday, October 5. Her Pambula show has sold out. Picture: Rani Chaleyer

The language of music

Albert McKnight

Custom: Ryleho do timber windows and doors in pretty much any design you can draw or show them from their factory in Queanbeyan. All photos supplied.

Using timber as a main feature | Country Homes

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Style: "For outdoor living we have noticed a lot of people now mixing our loom furniture in softer colours along with our Cotswold Teak". Photo: Supplied.

Trends in country furniture | Country Homes

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The Big Green Egg: This is a ceramic unit made in the same place as NASA's heat shields for space shuttles. It's able to smoke, grill or roast. Photo: Supplied.

Outdoor cooking at its best | Country Homes

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Custom: Ryleho do timber windows and doors in pretty much any design you can draw or show them from their factory in Queanbeyan. All photos supplied.

Using timber as a main feature | Country Homes

Beginnings: The AGA cooker was invented in 1922 by the already-blind, and Noble-prize winning physicist, Gustaf Dalén. They became very popular, especially in the UK, after their commercial release in 1929. Photo: Supplied.

Invention and evolution of the AGA | Country Homes

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Preferences: Each potential buyer of a country home is looking for different specific features. Photo: Supplied.

Lots of history in this region | Country Homes

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Domain | Open for inspection

With Google map

A Wagonga Inlet beauty

Batemans Bay House of the Week October 17

Looking for a productive Bega farm?

Far South Coast House of the Week October 17

TRADITION: Private Walter Saunders. Picture: AWM P00889.012

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

Remembrance: The unveiling of a memorial in Toogoolawah, Queensland. Pictures: Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. H17643

Places of love and loss, of heroes all

Maeve McKenna

CHARACTERS: Just some of the characters who turned up to last year's Steampunk event. The colourful event returns to the Goulburn Waterworks this weekend.

Steampunk mania descends on Goulburn

David Cole

TRADITION: Private Walter Saunders. Picture: AWM P00889.012

Road to Remembrance

COURAGE: Private Miller Mack of the 50th Australian Infantry Battalion was one of 21 Ngarrindjeri men who enlisted. Picture: AWM P10608.010

Road to Remembrance

Michael Grealy

You've got this: Notes of encouragement posted at the entrance of the Eden Marine High School hall where HSC students are sitting their final year exams.

Students smash through start of HSC exams | VIDEO

Claudia Ferguson, Rachel Mounsey

South Coast development manager Greg Richards-Riches of Cricket NSW.

Schools go cricket crazy | PHOTOS

Happy faces at the Seeto, Dodd and Dwyer Pharmacy, Merimbula with Isabella Tygh, Alana Breed and Kim Fisher.

Rain didn’t dampen Crazy Day spirits

Proud moment as Samantha Crowley shows her graduation certificate.

Lumen Christi Year 12 graduates

Tara Naylor and Kim Collingham creating clay artworks as part of a mural for the new playground at Wallaga Lake Koori village.

Playground for Wallaga Lake Koori village is nearly reality | GALLERY

David Rogers set up his camera on a tripod to capture the luminous scene. Photo: Peter Whiter of DoubleTake Photographics.

Photographers’ eyes light up as algae returns to Eden | Video, Photo

Claudia Ferguson

Picture: Chelsea Sutton

All the action from the 2018 Deni Ute Muster

Annie Lewis

Maia and Elise Kemp made a new friend at the Motorfest on Sunday with the family camping at Tathra.

Motorfest roars to life with strong turnout

Jacob McMaster

CRAB SAUSAGES: CRAB's volunteers Will Hughes of Brogo, Sheree Hurst, Wayne Brooks and Craig Hurst of Bermagui serving sausage sanga's for a gold coin donation at the Bermagui CRAB's Duck Race.

Ducks and CRAB’s galore

Jeanne Medlicott

Vicki Bond and Ric Van der Bom enjoying themselves at the Nethercote Hall Deca-Dance on Saturday evening.

Letters to the editor

Peter Whiter enjoys capturing the natural glow as the shoreline waves activate the bioluminescent algae in Eden. Photo: Peter Whiter of DoubleTake Photographics

Letters to the editor

Year 12 students at Lumen Christi Catholic College enjoyed a mufti day recently and dressed as some of their favourite characters.

Letters to the editor

SPOTLIGHT: Failings of the aged care industry will come under scrutiny from a Royal Commission.

Advocacy groups applaud aged care Royal Commission news

Eileen Wood

Simply stunned: Michael Palin said he feels "incredibly lucky" to have had such a diverse career, from Monty Python to travelling the world. Photo: John Swannell

Michael Palin: Always look on the bright side of life

Samara Ross

COMMONPLACE: Close to one million colonoscopies are carried out each year.

Colonoscopy stories wanted

Samara Ross

Craig McGrath, next to Meghan, had a big support team on hand to watch him win silver.

Invictus athlete already a hero to mates

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Prince Harry king of the kids in Sydney

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Royals tour takes a sombre turn

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Harry and Meghan join the Invictus fans

Queensland will give Meghan and Harry a custom-made Tambo teddy bear during their visit on Monday.

Queensland's cuddly gift to royal couple

Paul Kenny escaped serious injury after punching a shark that attacked him north of Newcastle.

NSW miner headbutts then punches shark

Julian Drape

Labor's Bill Shorten has called on the government to withdraw from a summit in Saudi Arabia.

Govt should boycott Saudi summit: Shorten

Eliza Berlage

Candidates predict close call in Wentworth

Angus Livingston and Julian Drape

The Blanc Delice at The Westin Sydney is almost too beautiful to touch.

Diner en Blanc’s stylish collaboration with Marriott

Enjoy a little weightlessness in one of three pools at Barceló Illetas Albatros

Taking a babymoon fit for royalty

There are some truly frightful destinations for adrenalin junky travellers.

Five haunted islands to visit this Halloween...if you dare

Let the sun in: Light, fresh and airy - the Hampton's style is reminiscent of long summer days and light filled spaces.

How to: Hampton’s style

Jennifer Birchall

Lucky she's outside: Right now, over three billion people are absorbing the equivalent pollution to smoking two cigarette packets every day, because they have no electricity and no option but to cook inside poorly ventilated dwellings using materials such as animal dung for fuel.

Ask Noel: A solution to pollution

Noel Whittaker

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Try this: Seared chermoula yellowtail kingfish with moroccan salad