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Circulating in the Central Coast of NSW.

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Coast Community News articles

Wyong’s Little Creek Cheese hauls in the medals

Coast Community News
Food & Beverages
Ivona Rose. Wyong’s Little Creek Cheese has collected a gold, two silver and two bronze awards at The Sydney Royal Cheese and Dairy Produce Show 2026, as the business celebrates its 15th anniversary.

Gold for Graham at World Cup

Coast Community News
International
Two-time Olympic medallist Matt Graham has won the first World Cup moguls event since the Milano Cortina Olympic Winter Games, claiming gold at the Japanese resort of Nanto-Toyama for the sixth World Cup victory of his career. In warm, soft snow conditions with rain falling, Graham qualified for the finals in fourth place with a score of 73.79.

Business community welcomes high speed rail announcement

Coast Community News
Business
Terry Collins. Business NSW Central Coast has described the recent funding announcement to accelerate the Newcastle–Sydney High Speed Rail corridor as presenting a major opportunity to accelerate jobs, investment and long-term economic growth in the region.

Ramping up call for action on shark mitigation

Coast Community News
Council
Central Coast Councillor Jared Wright has ramped up calls for State Government action on shark control following the recent release of the International Shark Attack File, which confirmed that Australia recorded the world's highest total of fatal shark attacks on humans in 2025. "Of 12 fatalities, nine were from Australia."

Matt Graham takes bronze in the dual moguls

Coast Community News
International
Tayla Purves. Narara local Matt Graham may have missed out on a medal in the men's mogul final 1 and super final at the Winter Olympics, but he has redeemed himself on the Livigno mogul course ... he was the missing piece to what each of the athletes called 'the dad podium' – all podium sitters were recent new fathers.

Top bird photos of the year

Coast Community News
Land & environment
The Central Coast Group of Birding NSW has announced the winners of its 2025 Photographic Competition. "There were 70 photos entered in the competition from 22 photographers," spokesperson Allan Benson said. "The standard was very high but the winners were standouts."
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The housing crisis: could tiny homes be the solution?

Coast Community News
Building & Construction
Ivona Rose. Interest in tiny homes is increasing on the Central Coast and across Australia, driven by soaring house prices, lack of housing availability, shifts toward sustainable living, downsizing, dwindling available land, and the growth of short-stay rentals like Airbnb ... Can tiny homes play a meaningful role in affordable housing, and where can people locate them?

We love and live for the Central Coast

We’re all for the Central Coast – we live here, we work here, we spend our time and our dollars here. We listen, we volunteer and we’re involved in the local community. We’re locally owned and we employ locals. That’s why over 200,000 coasties support us.

Editorial Email: editorial@centralcoastnews.net
Sales Email: sales@centralcoastnew.net
Website: coastcommunitynews.com.au
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Central Coast Newspapers is a locally owned and based public interest news service that publishes across multiple platforms; in print, online, on radio, on mobile, social media, audio/video and subscription services.

CCN is a locally owned business that employs local staff. who live on the Central Coast.
We are members of the Local and Independent News Association – LINA.

Digital

The amalgamated digital news service coastcommunitynews.com.au has a 284,000 regular users and 1,900,000 google search page views (July 2023) – the combined associated social media assets have a monthly reach of 120,000 people including – YouTube – Facebook – Twitter – Instagram (July 2023). The combined push notifications of email and web push subscription list of 84,000 (July 2022).

Print

CCN publishes and distributes and amalgamated weekly masthead Coast Community News, with a total print run of over 27,000 papers each week, with 60,000 + readers each week. (Each paper is read by on average 2.2 people) plus digital flip book readers.

Contributions are welcome and are preferred in email form, ideally with any relevant photographs attached. Contributions must include the contributor’s name, address and phone number. This is not for publication but name and suburb will be published and anonymous contributions will not be included.

Journalists: Terry Collins, Sue Murray, Denice Barnes, Merilyn Vale
Print Graphic Design: Brad Yee
Head of Distribution: Anthony Wagstaff
Manager and Digital Editor: David Abrahams
Email: editorial@centralcoastnews.net

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