What Reader Tools and Features Are Available on The Northern Daily Leader Website?

The Northern Daily Leader site (northerndailyleader.com.au) offers a set of practical reader tools beyond its news coverage: interest-based newsletters and alerts, daily puzzles, a national jobs board, classifieds, tributes and funeral notices, and a way to contribute photos. Most of these are reachable from the site's Quick Links and main navigation menus, and some content sits behind a digital subscription. Below is what each tool does and how to get to it.

Newsletters and alerts

The site runs a dedicated Newsletters section, listed under both "Newsletters & Alerts" and the main navigation.

• What it is: Sign-up options for newsletters "tailored to your interests," so you choose the topics you want delivered rather than receiving everything.
• How to find it: Use the "Newsletters" link in the Quick Links area or the Newsletters entry in the main menu.
• What to expect: You select newsletters by interest and manage them through your account. The site also lists "Newsletters & Alerts" as a distinct heading, indicating alert-style updates in addition to regular newsletters.

If you mainly want local Tamworth and New England news without browsing the site daily, this is the lowest-effort option.

Puzzles

A Puzzles section is available from Quick Links and the main menu, and it appears in the "Discover" prompts on the homepage.

• Crossword
• Sudoku
• Ultimate Trivia

These are self-contained daily activities — no news reading required. They're a reasonable reason to visit the site directly rather than through search or social links.

ViewJobs

ViewJobs is a jobs board the site describes as bringing "the best job opportunities across Australia."

• How to find it: The ViewJobs link appears in Quick Links and in the main navigation.
• Scope: National, not limited to Tamworth or the surrounding region.
• Best for: Job seekers who want a single Australian listing board reachable from a news site they already read, rather than a region-specific employment page.

Classifieds, tributes and funerals

Two separate sections cover notices and listings:

Both are listed in the main navigation. The site also carries an Obituaries entry under its News sections, so death and tribute content appears in more than one place — if you can't find a notice under Tributes & Funerals, check the Obituaries section as well.

Contributing photos

A "Contribute Photos" option sits in the main navigation, alongside "News Tips and Advice."

• What it is: A route for readers to submit photos to the publication.
• Related tools: The same menu area includes news tips and advice, so reader submissions aren't limited to images.

This is useful if you've captured something newsworthy locally — a community event, weather event, or sporting moment — and want to send it in rather than just read.

Today's Paper and the subscription boundary

The site's "Today's Paper" feature lets you "read the latest edition online," and the homepage states that a digital subscription includes access to content from all websites in the region plus the digital versions of print editions.

• Free-to-reach tools: The puzzles, newsletters sign-up, ViewJobs, classifieds, tributes and the photo contribution route are all presented as site features you can navigate to directly.
• Subscription-linked content: Unlimited articles and the digital print editions are tied to a paid digital subscription, with subscription offers available via the site's subscribe page.

The site does not state that any of these tools are free, so treat access to full articles and Today's Paper as subscription-dependent unless you confirm otherwise on the page itself.

Quick reference

If your goal is simply to keep up with local news, start with newsletters. If you want something to do on the site itself, the puzzles section is the most direct option.