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Gianni Francis is a journalist for Leader and the Herald Sun based in Bendigo covering courts, crime, council and community.

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‘Not a typical dealer’: Naturopath faces jail over cannabis oil supply

After being dragged through the courts for more than 940 days with the prospect of life in prison hanging over her head, a Coffs Coast naturopath will soon learn her fate.

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New disability friendly cafe flagged for Lismore

A new cafe and gallery has been proposed for Lismore’s CBD, staffed by locals living with disabilities. See what’s planned.

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Teen hospitalised after motorbike crash at Corindi Beach September 29.

Teen boy suffers head, chest injuries in fall from motorbike

A teenager has been flown to a Newcastle hospital after suffering head and chest injuries in a nasty motorbike crash in a seaside community near Coffs Harbour.

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‘Lived like a rock star’: Brother’s tribute to popular Tweed musician

A musician and member of Tweed rock outfit Fat Albert has sadly died, prompting a heartfelt tribute to “the best dad and the best brother that anyone could ask for”.

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Lismore in the floods. Picture: AFP/NSW SES

Crippling housing crisis worsens as more rentals stripped away

Residents across the Northern Rivers are being forced out of homes and into the brutal rental market due to long-awaited flood property buybacks. Here’s what’s happening.

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NSW Premier Chris Minns (right) and state Lismore MP Janelle Saffin on the streets of Lismore on Tuesday morning. Picture: Gianni Francis

‘Lismore isn’t forgotten’: Minns flags ramped up flood recovery

Premier Chris Minns has visited the flood-stricken Northern Rivers and again called on the federal government to fork out more to help the region recover 18 months on. Here’s the latest.

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Alan Woolford was taken to Grafton Base Hospital on Wednesday after he was kicked in the face by a horse.

Claims hospital tried to discharge man with face ‘torn open’

A northern NSW hospital has been accused of trying to wrongfully discharge a man who suffered gruesome injuries when he was kicked by a horse. Here’s how the local health service responded. Warning: Graphic.

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A car has ploughed into the front of Ballina Coles in northern NSW on September 19 2023. Picture: Supplied

Car ploughs into aisles of North Coast supermarket

Two people have been hospitalised after a car crashed all the way into a North Coast supermarket. Police are now trying to piece together what happened when the elderly female driver‘s car ploughed into the store.

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A piece of Tweed history is heading to market, with the Ã¢??trophy homeÃ¢?Â of Sarah Robinson on the market, a fourth generation descendant of the pioneering Sullivan family who settled in the area in 1892.Real estate agents in the know are tipping 18 Marie Street, Tweed Heads South, to set a sale price record for the suburb when it goes under the hammer on September 28. Picture: Ray White.

‘Nothing like it’: Prominent Tweed property to go under hammer

The great-granddaughter of a pioneering Tweed Shire family is selling a trophy home with historic links, which is expected to set a suburb price record. See the pictures.

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Expressions of interest are now open for a cafÃ© operator to run the upgraded Captain Cook Memorial and Lighthouse when it opens later this year. Pictures: Tweed Shire Council.

Changing face of iconic headland on Qld-NSW border

Tweed has called for a cafe operator at the spruced up Captain Cook Memorial and Lighthouse, which is due to open soon. It comes as a huge tower build is also underway at Point Danger. Here’s the latest

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