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Axe-wielding home invader spared jail time

A young man who pleaded guilty to breaking into a northern New South Wales home armed with an axe and threatening its occupants has avoided jail.

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Bedroom intruder allegedly threatened to kill, burn woman

Police allege a car parts dealer installed spyware on a woman’s devices and made chilling death threats after she woke to find him in her bedroom. Here’s the latest from court.

The Central Coast open men's cricket team celebrating after winning the 2025/26 NSW country championships final. Picture: Carrera Management

‘We bloody won this thing’: History made in country cricket

A detailed plan was carried out to perfection as country cricket history was created with an emphatic performance.

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Robbery and Serious Crime Squad detectives have charged a man following an alleged armed robbery in the state's north. MICHAEL GEORGE WHITE

‘Terrifying’: Servo gunman jailed after brave mum’s foil

A Northern Rivers man has been jailed after a mum’s brave confrontation forced him to flee empty-handed from a botched armed robbery at a service station near the Qld-NSW border.

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Jacob Glenn Ford will contest child abuse allegations at trial in November.

Former realtor sexually abused child

A jury has found a former Northern Rivers realtor guilty of vile child sex charges after he sent multiple explicit messages and sexually touched a minor over a three-month period.

Ochre David Wood, 23, arrested on seven outstanding warrants and charged with 36 offences relating to an alleged assault, several alleged property and traffic offences.

Wanted fugitive nabbed in northern NSW raid

A wanted man with numerous warrants who had eluded police has been apprehended in a Northern Rivers raid before he was hit with several charges.

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Will Barnes playing for the Alstonville and District first grade cricket team during the 2025/26 LJ Hooker League season. Picture: Supplied

‘Edge of their seats’: Inspired bowling seals final-ball thriller

Staring down the barrel of another loss, one side produced a stunning display of death bowling to prevail in an absolute thriller in the LJ Hooker League.

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A Possum Creek man accused of assaulting an older man in Byron Bay while in the company of up to five other men has been granted bail.

Teen charged after alleged six-on-one assault

A Possum Creek man accused of assaulting an older man in Byron Bay while in the company of up to five other men has been granted strict bail.

Queensland celebrate the run out of Alec Baldwin of New South Wales in Australian Country Cricket Championships round four at Heritage Oval, Saturday, January 4, 2020. Picture: Kevin Farmer

‘Precarious position’: ‘Pinnacle’ of country cricket under threat

The future of country cricket’s centrepiece event has been thrown into doubt after Cricket Australia funding cuts, in a decision that some fear could have far-reaching impacts on the game.

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The body of a 25-year-old man was found on Fischer Street, Goonellabah early Friday morning. A 31-year-old man was flown to Gold Coast Hospital with critical head injuries in critical condition. Investigations continue. Picture: Facebook

Six men and teen charged over fatal park brawl

Police have arrested and charged six men and a teenage boy following an alleged affray and death of Goonellabah man Ramone Gordon earlier this month in NSW’s north.

Jack Evans Boat Harbour in Tweed Heads will get a $138,790 upgrade thanks to a grant from the Crown Reserves Improvement Fund.

Man’s alleged houseboat booze cruise ends in crash

A man will face court after he allegedly got loaded on booze at nearly five times the legal blood alcohol limit before crashing a 14-metre houseboat into a rock wall at a busy harbour on the Qld-NSW border.

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‘Dangerous genie’: Residents warn against Byron’s late-night plan

“Byron is not Sydney” – a divisive council proposal to extend the former hippie mecca’s night-life hours has divided the community, with over 1200 residents signing a petition warning of dangerous consequences.

Strike Force Franklin arrests on the North Coast. Pictures: NSW Police

1.9 million darts: Four charged in huge illicit vape, tobacco sting

A woman and three men have been charged after a multi-agency operation seized more than 18,000 vapes, 1.9 million illicit cigarettes, 74kg of loose-leaf tobacco and five unregistered firearms.

Kevin Anderson, 43 is facing charges of common assault, intimidation, contravening an avo, giving a false name and failing to appear in accordance with bail acknowledgment.

Man bailed on assault, DV charges

A Northern Rivers man currently serving a community corrections order has told a court he thought his matters were finalised after being arrested for failing to appear at a scheduled hearing.

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