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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

Northern Beaches Council has closed all beaches and warns people to stay out of the water due to stormwater and possible sewage contamination. A sign at Clontarf Reserve on Saturday morning.

Rain emergency: Evacuate order downgraded for northern beaches

Authorities have downgraded an evacuation order for residents around Narrabeen Lagoon as floodwaters start to subside. But a new problem has emerged. See updated reports here.

Manly

Northern beaches braces for flash flooding

Authorities and residents on the northern beaches are bracing for a potentially damaging and dangerous rain event during Friday and Saturday. See updated reports here.

Manly

The Dee Why Grand shopping centre at Dee Why, owned by Australian property manager ISPT ( Industry Superannuation Property Trust) is for sale in April 2024.

$65m price tag: Northern beaches’ shopping mall up for grabs

Have you got a spare $65 million lying round? Then you’re a chance of putting in a bid for a popular northern beaches’ shopping mall now up for sale.

Manly

A taxi that crashed through three front gardens in Bayview Cl, Bayview, on March 10, 2024, after a driver, who blew 0.169, lost control of the vehicle after drinking with friends.

Drunk cabbie takes wild taxi ride through three Sydney front yards

A drunk cabbie, who’d knocked back a few Coronas on a Sunday afternoon, ended up taking a passenger on a wild ride through three front yards. See what happened in court

Manly

An artist's impression of proposed renovations to the Balgowlah RSL Memorial Club at Seaforth in 2024.

Northern beaches’ club makes bid for $7.4m makeover

Alfresco areas, glass roofs and bars opening until 2am are some of the $7m makeover plans proposed for a popular northern beaches club.

Manly

Warringah Golf Club is seeking approval to construct a new ancillary clubhouse to replace the existing building at 397 Condamine St, North Manly.Â Picture: Group Architects

Locals get say on pokie-free club on northern beaches

A new golf clubhouse on the northern beaches will be poker machine-free, but wants to be able to serve alcohol, when it opens its doors after an $8m rebuild.

Mosman

Group chief executive Antony Jones and Head of marketing Ben Collis at the Boat House Restaurant Rosebay Photo by Renee Nowytarger / 11/12/23 News Local

The Boathouse is back from the brink

The Boathouse Group endured some rocky waters in recent years – with new management at the helm – the business is charting a fresh course in the hospitality industry.

Manly

Cleo Whithear, Real estate Agent. Novak Properties, Northern Beaches, Sydney. Photo: Supplied

Estate agency manager convicted for refusing police breath tests

A senior real estate employee, who hid behind a garden shed to avoid being breath tested by cops, has been sentenced in a Sydney court.

Manly

Cleo Whithear, 44, a senior property manager at the Novak Properties real estate agency on the northern beaches.

Estate agency manager convicted for refusing police breath tests

A senior real estate employee, who hid behind a garden shed to avoid being breath tested by cops, has been sentenced in a Sydney court.

Manly

Generic photographs of parking tickets, City of Sydney (Surry Hills). Ranger, fine, car,

Call for council’s ‘ticketless’ parking fines to be scrapped

The days of ‘brown bombers’ leaving a parking fine docket under the wipers are over on the northern beaches in favour of a ticketless system. But a move is on to bring back the paper.

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