Gary Van Duinen was a pokie addict — who gambled more than $3.7 million in just two years — and was wined and dined by Dee Why RSL to keep playing. But now authorities have slapped the club with a record six-figure penalty.
A woman was badly hurt by a hit-and-run driver on a northern beaches pedestrian crossing — police are keen to speak to the driver of a white, dual cab ute.
Annika Ferry, who died in a fall at a North Head military bunker was a brilliant student who the University of NSW will honour by naming an annual academic prize after her.
Ferry commuters and tourists will have to wait to see if another newsagency opens on Manly Wharf after the current outlet closed its doors this week.
Teenagers taking advantage of the huge surf to go ‘chain surfing’ at a popular northern beaches pool have ended up in hospital this afternoon, one of which suffered a head injury.
A man — who has served in the RAAF — knocked off a dozen beers, bundled his seven-year-old son into the family Holden and then collided with another car on the northern beaches. Now he has been sentenced in court.
Police have taken fingerprints and DNA samples to help catch vandals who have angered sporting clubs by damaging a new $2m amenities block on the northern beaches.
A yacht was yanked free from its moorings and kayakers were tipped into choppy water, amid strong winds, as the SES issue a warning for dangerous surf.
A woman who allegedly stole close to $800,000 from her terminally ill boss, Con Ange – who owns a chain of adult sex shops — has entered pleas to 16 fraud charges in Manly Court.
A GREAT-great grandmother has been reunited with the ‘hero’ who rescued her from her burning home after a toaster caught fire.
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