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Jim O’Rourke is a journalist with more than 35 years’ experience writing for major metropolitan newspapers as well as community and regional mastheads. He has covered politics, local government, industrial relations, transport, courts and crime.

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Jim O'Rourke

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Manly

Authorities are cleaning up a chemical spill in Pittwater, at the southeast end of Scotland Island. Picture: NSW Fire & Rescue (Forestville)

Authorities investigate drilling lubricant spill in Pittwater

An ugly brown substance is being cleaned up off the northern beaches after an underwater drilling incident on Pittwater.

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Cessnock Correctional Complex is a minimum and maximum security facility for male offenders.

21 prisoners charged over alleged riot in maximum security jail

More than 20 inmates who allegedly rioted at a maximum security jail in the Hunter Valley faced court on Thursday for threatening staff and damaging property. SEE THE NAMES OF ALL INMATES CHARGED.

Manly

Super fast safety boost for Sydney boaties

It’s sleek, it’s fast and it’s here — the new super fast Marine Rescue vessel to help northern beaches’ boaties who get into trouble has arrived.

Manly

DUI dental nurse crashes car after five bourbons in 40 minutes

A BMW-driving dental nurse knocked off five bourbon and cokes in 40 minutes at a northern beaches pub before jumping into her car and crashing into another parked vehcile. Now she has been sentenced for high-range drink driving.

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Alleged paedophile Colin Fisk (L) at Goulburn police station.

Notorious paedophile charged with 23 historic child sex assaults

A notorious paedophile accused of historic child sex offences involving a 13-year-old boy has appeared in Manly Local Court.

Manly

A garbage truck has got stuck in a sinkhole in Namona St, narrabeen. Picture: Jim O'Rourke.

Revealed: what has caused two sinkholes in two days

There have been two sinkholes in two days in Sydney, with the latest crater appearing outside a school on the northern beaches. So, what’s causing them?

Manly

Evidence is collected by police at a fatal MVA Picture : Steve Tyson Time : 2320 Location : 5 Caladenia Close, Elenora Heights Description : 1 x 16 year old male deceased at the scene of an MVA after a car carrying 6 teenagers crashed into a fence

Northern beaches teen charged over fatal crash

A P-plater, 17, has been charged over the death of a teenage boy in a Saturday night crash at Elanora Heights.

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Beach erosion damage at the rear of a property in Goodwin St, Narrabeen. Picture: Julie Cross

Anxious wait for beachfront residents as high tide hits

As a deep east coast low loiters off the NSW coast, beachfront residents at Collaroy and Narrabeen are anxiously awaiting the next high tide, after swells washed away up to a metre of land in one spot overnight.

Manly

Trees blocked General San Remo Dr at Terrey Hills. Picture: RFS (Coal & Candle Brigade)

Kayakers rescued as damaging winds, big surf lash coast

Authorities are warning residents to be aware of severe weather alerts as high winds and big surf are on their way.

Manly

Julia Allen pose for as photo with Male cat 'Big Ginge' at Northside vet hospital, Mona Vale Road Terry Hills on Monday, 27 July 2020.(Image / Monique Harmer)

‘I want him to be mine:’ Happy end for cat thrown from car

He was thrown like a bag of garbage out of a moving car in Newport, on Sydney’s northern beaches, but the tough tabby cat named ‘Big Ginge’ survived and has been reunited with the young woman who saved his life.

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