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Alison PatersonSports, Crime, Emergency Services reporter

Alison Paterson is an award-winning journalist and photographer. Renowned for reporting with compassion and integrity, Alison possesses considerable experience reporting on the ground at natural disasters from floods to bushfires. She also covers the police, emergency services and sports rounds at The Northern Star. Passionate AFL, cycling and surfing, Alison aims to take her annual leave in July so she can ride her bike trainer while watching the Tour de France live.

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DRAGON WIN: Lennox head Rainbow Dragons were thrilled when their Womens 20s team earned silverware for their poolroom after they took out second place at the Currumbin Regatta.

Silver lining for paddle power after pandemic scuppered event

Lennox Head’s Rainbow Dragon Women’s 20 team showed their power on the paddle defeating younger crews at a regatta.

MASTERS GAMES: Masters Games chair Matthew Barlow with Lismore mayor Cr Vanessa Ekin (centre) and cricket great Lyn Larsen (right) celebrate the launch of the Lismore Masters games at the Lismore Workers Club on April 22, 2021. Photo: Alison Paterson

‘Do your worst’: Challenge set for Masters Games

Lismore is set to attract hundreds of keen athletes to enjoy competing in the 2021 Masters Games in September.

ALL IN: With more than 300 talented and enthusiastic youngsters, the Casino RSM Cougars is the largest junior club in the Northern Region.

How Casino became one of region’s biggest junior footy clubs

Numbers are ‘exploding’ and the club will have 24 junior teams this season. This is how they did it.

SPEED DEMON: Jordan Biviano is one of the contenders for honours in the Production Sedan Lismore Track Championship on April 24, 2021, at Castrol Edge Lismore Speedway. Photo: Tony Powell.

Title honours will be battled trackside on Saturday night

With no clear leader, a number of drivers are in contention for podium honours at Lismore Speedway on April 24.

Police & Courts

Pictured is a police dog and handler at the scene of a suspected murder in Smithfield where a body has been found in a burnt out car.Picture: Richard Dobson

POLICE RAID: Guns and drugs seized, man arrested

Officers from the dog unit and police rescue were involved when a warrant was executed in Nimbin.

Police & Courts

NSW Police car night

Ballina woman, 21, leads police on several car chases

The P-plater will face predatory and menacing driving charges.

RIVER ARREST: Police rescue were called to assist with the arrest of man, 33, who tried to evade officers by jumping in the Wilson River, Lismore. File Photo: Alison Paterson

Dramatic arrest after man jumps in river to escape police

“Everyone involved was drenched”: 33-year-old’s desperate attempt to avoid arrest at Lismore.

NEW HORIZONS: TAFE NSW aviation Team Leader Andrew Trease said they're excited to be training the next generation of pilots in Lismore. Photo: Alison Paterson

How Lismore will help launch careers of thousands of pilots

A new initiative to train up commercial pilots has been a decade in the making.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05 2020:NSW Ambulance Services in Sydney Australia, on OCTOBER 05 2020. Picture: NCA Newswire / Gaye Gerard

Paramedics called after car crashes into tree

Emergency services are at the scene of a car crash on the Northern Rivers.

GOOD BOY: Edie the golden retriever was rescued by three people his owner Michelle Johnston called "super heores" after her beloved pooch fell down a crevice between some rocks at Evans Head and the trio helped rescue him..

How ‘superheroes’ rescued Eddie from rock wall crevice

“It was a precarious and nasty situation… he weighs 39kg so I knew I couldn’t get him out on my own”.

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