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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

Ariel photos of Sydney's Northern Beaches from the Surf watch Helicopter. Mona Vale Beach showing the Basin between the pool & headland where a man was bitten by a shark on thursday morning.

Bid for new marine protection of popular reserve rejected

A spirited push to protect marine animals and plants at a popular Sydney swimming spot has been rejected by state authorities.

Manly

Bid to create all-in-one Sydney servo with its own laundromat

A plan for a Sydney all-in-one servo that allows motorists to clean their clothes while the car is being automatically washed has gone before planning authorities. See what they decided.

Manly

Sydney bottle shop chain targeted in alleged refund scam

A young woman allegedly swindled a prominent Sydney bottle shop chain out of a large amount of money, over a seven-month period.

Manly

Man wants drink drive conviction cancelled

A man who allegedly blew three times the limit and then failed to turn up at a country courthouse on the day he was convicted of drink driving, wants to have that conviction cancelled.

Manly

A collision between a garbage truck and a hatchback on Mona Vale Rd, Ingleside, on October 9, 2023. Picture: Ingleside Rural Fire Service

Garbo on dangerous driving charges after L-plater badly hurt

A northern beaches’ garbo, facing a string of offences over a head-on crash that left a L-plate driver and his mum with spinal injuries, is set to negotiate with cops over charges, a court has heard.

Manly

The rebuilt Barrenjoey Boatshed at Palm Beach, which accommodates The Joey dining room and bar, which opened on February 15, 2024.

‘The Joey’: New eatery bounds onto Beaches’ hospitality scene

An up-market waterside eatery has opened its doors as part of the $7m rebuild of the Barrenjoey Boatshed on the new Palm Beach jetty.

Manly

Bid for pooch poo bag pay scheme to be examined by council

A dogfight is set to erupt over a proposal to install automatic vending machines at popular Sydney off-leash dog parks to provide poo collection bags – for a cost to punters. See the plan.

Manly

A female driver was killed in a head-on collision on Wakehurst Parkway at North Narrabeen during wet weather late on Monday afternoon. Picture: iStock

Woman dies in head-on crash during Sydney storm

A woman has been killed in a head-on crash on a notorious section of a major northern beaches road on Monday afternoon.

Manly

Graffiti on a glass panel above the multi-lane roadway at the intersection of Warringah Rd and Forest Way at Frenchs Forest on September 20, 2022. Graffiti vandalism has not been cleaned away from the location despite repeated requests to the NSW Government that go back 12 months. Picture: Jim O'Rourke

Graffiti gangs’ Sydney spray can sprees set to be stopped

A notorious high-profile graffiti vandalism hotspot, which has blighted one of the northern beaches’ busiest road junctions for three years, is set to be cleaned up.

Manly

An artist's impression of the interior of the proposed new Warriewood Valley Community Centre . Picture: Northern Beaches Council

Work to start on $9.5m northern beaches community centre

Work on building a long-awaited new $9.5m community centre for indoor sport and recreational activities on the northern beaches is set to start. See what it will look like.

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