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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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Ballina

Temperatures plunged to an icy 7 degrees on the Sunshine Coast overnight, with more cold weather predicted.

Cold snap: Winter’s last icy blast for the Northern Rivers

We’re just days away from spring, but it felt like -1.7 degrees in Lismore this morning.

Lismore

NORTHERN RIVERS FINES: The Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) has revealed it it has issued several fines to landowners and contractor regarding their unauthorised clearing and removal of vegetation around creeks. File Photo: NRAR

Lismore landowner fined over illegal clearing near creek

After a lengthy investigation, the property owner and an earthmoving contractor were fined and ordered to remediate the damage to the “fragile” ecosystem.

Lismore

HOME DESTROYED: A fire burned a house to the ground on Boundary Creek Rd, Bentley, on Tuesday 24 August, 2021. Firefighters arrived at the scene to find the home fully engulfed by flames. Photo courtesy RFS.

Firefighter sees own home destroyed, joins battle to keep flames from bushland

A volunteer firefighter saw his home destroyed by flames before joining his colleagues to stop the fire spreading to nearby forest.

Lismore

BELOVED MENTOR: The passing of beloved Alstonville / Wollongbar Rural Fire Service volunteer Roy Cormick has devastated the tight-knit Northern Rivers community. Image courtesy RFS

A firefighter and a gentleman: Vale Roy Cormick

The Northern Rivers firefighting community has been devastated by the news that beloved firefighter Roy Cormick has passed.

Lismore

OUr Kids founder Dr Chris Ingall at the Our Kids Melbourne Cup Luncheon at Southern Cross University.

Vaccination hesitancy is like a black spot on the highway

“Nothing changes until you get that fatal crash, then the roundabout or stop signs come in… people need to see a disease upfront before they will believe in it.”

Police & Courts

police patrol car on the road at night with flashing blue lights and backlights from other vehicles

Covid idiots: Birthday party guests run away, hide in beds and sheds

Police confirmed they received numerous calls in relation to a birthday party held on the Far North Coast on Wednesday night.

Lismore

CONCERNED: Ballina parents Scott and Kimberley Brown want to ensure border rules are simplified to avoid covid related tragedies.

Heartbroken mums demand end to border medical tragedies

Two families are demanding state health departments clear a path through confusing border lockdown regulations after suffering tragedy and despair.

Lismore

Mum’s outrage as son is denied Covid jab before life-saving operation

Connor Meldrum’s mother is “furious and devastated” about the harrowing situation they are in after a bureaucratic nightmare denied him a vital Covid vaccination, just days before his brain operation.

Lismore

OUR PEOPLE: The Winsome Soup Kitchen manager Mieke Bell (far left) with Robert Cameron, Margot McKeon, Steve Smith and Mick Melino. Ms Bell said

Why looking after ‘our people’ during tough times is vital

Offering food security during the uncertainty of the pandemic and lockdown is a significant element of the Winsome’s success in looking after our some of most vulnerable community members.

Lismore

GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION: For the past five years Goonellabah resident Aleisha Johnston has donated plasma every two weeks at the Australian Red Cross Lifesblood centre in Lismore as a way of helping her community. Photo: Alison Paterson

How one woman helped save the lives of more than 400 people

One Goonellabah woman is not letting Covid stop her doing something “simply sensational” to help her community.

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