Our iconic native marsupials are getting stuck in pools, crawling through doggy doors and seeking refuge in homes as their habitat inexorably shrinks. Meet the volunteers fighting koala extinction.
Lower North Lismore has been ordered to evacuate, with other northern rivers towns hit hard by the last floods also now advised to watch for potential imminent flooding again.
An Aussie soapie star — who has had roles on Home and Away, Water Rats and Heartbreak High — will go to trial over allegations he was involved in dealing 670g of cocaine at Byron Bay.
A Northern Rivers man was allegedly busted with ice, cannabis and a loaded gun in a car stolen from Queensland during an early morning traffic stop has made a bid for freedom.
Wedging drugs into moving boxes and between mattresses, a Sydney dealer got past Byron Bay before he was caught. Here’s what 183kg of marijuana, 2.5kg of meth, 816g of heroin looks like.
Update: Weather forecasters have cancelled a severe weather warning for the Northern Rivers and reduced the flood watch warning for a number of rivers. Read the rolling coverage.
A Northern Rivers flood hero from the ‘tinny brigade’ called in a fake bomb threat on fellow volunteers because he couldn’t get more grog at the bowlo.
As millions across the globe stop to pay tribute to the Queen on the day of her funeral, the children who met her on her whirlwind 1954 tour of Australia recount the day the Queen rolled into town.
The fall from grace of a reality TV star was laid bare in court as the magistrate said she hoped full-time rehabilitation could help turn her life around after she stole ID information while ‘entertaining’ at a bucks party.
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