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Local Health District has record number of COVID tests

A Tweed Shire resident in hotel quarantine in Sydney has been confirmed as a case of COVID-19.

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30th Dec. 2020 1:12 PM

A Nurse is seen with a clipboard checking information as locals attend the Warringah Aquatic Centre Pop-up Drive-through COVID-19 Testing site in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

Hospital staff demand essential workers checkpoint

Following an outcry by whistleblowers yesterday, the HSU has now joined the border fight.

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24th Dec. 2020 2:12 PM

‘Very short notice’: Hospital staff pay price for closure

Queensland Police has admitted officers did not have enough notice to implement border checkpoints for essential workers...

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24th Dec. 2020 9:12 AM

Queensland Police has admitted officers did not have enough notice to implement border checkpoints for essential workers, including crucial hospital staff.

Alternatives suggested to deal with border traffic nightmare

Two Twin Town politicians reveal their solutions to the Queensland border traffic nightmare plaguing the Tweed.

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23rd Dec. 2020 11:12 PM

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA – NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 23 2020: Police check cars as they cross the Queensland NSW border at GriffithStreet Coolangatta. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Steve Holland

‘Devastating’: Border business blow days before Christmas

They have survived two sets of floods, bushfires and a pandemic — now North Coast businesses face their biggest challenge...

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22nd Dec. 2020 4:12 PM

The border restrictions have been stepped up. Police setting up barriers in Miles Street, Coolangatta. Picture: NIGEL HALLETT

‘Obnoxious’ COVID breacher to spend Christmas behind bars

COVID checks and registration requirements were an inconvenience, but were ‘absolutely essential’, court told

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07th Dec. 2020 12:12 AM

James Desmond Murphy, 38, appeared by videolink from custody in Tweed Heads Local Court on November 25.

Why borders opening won’t help major North Coast employer

One of the biggest hospitality employers on the North Coast says other restrictions need to be lifted

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27th Nov. 2020 12:11 AM

The Twin Towns club billboard message was so touching, it's close to the heart because of COVID-19. Photo: Cecilia Morey, Tweed Heads.

How Queensland’s border decision impacts the Northern Rivers

COMMUNITY leaders respond to the news the Queensland border checkpoints will soon be a thing of the past.

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25th Nov. 2020 5:11 PM

The Queensland Premier has announced changes to the border restrictions and says that no more police will be needed to patrol the state's borders with New South Wales. Police at the Griffith St, Coolangatta, border site . Picture: Jerad Williams

GOOD LUCK: How Year 12s are coping with HSC in a pandemic

IN A year unlike any other, it only seems fitting Year 12 students across the region sat final exams unlike any other.

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22nd Oct. 2020 12:10 AM

Tweed River High School year 12 student Kaitlyn Reynolds signing in for her HSC English paper one exam on October 20.

Meet the trainee doctors making Northern Rivers home

For a group of young doctors, finishing their medical degrees at a rural hospital was a labour of love

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19th Oct. 2020 9:10 AM

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