IF you ask any long-serving Gold Coast cop what their worst day on the job has been, they’ll answer May 29, 2011. The day when one of their own — a young father and a good mate — was cruelly gunned down in a brazen tavern robbery.
THOUSANDS of homeowners in a Sydney suburb could see a dramatic increase in insurance costs and a lack of confidence from investors or developers, following the State Government’s decision to identify homes within a one in 100,000 year flood zone.
HOMEOWNERS in Riverstone are furious following the release of the West Schofields Masterplan, which will see the acquisition of their homes over the next 20 years for sporting fields.
A FORMER KGB colonel was gunned down in his driveway by ‘frogmen’ working for the Russian mafia who fled in the darkness of a Gold Coast canal. The death of Gennadi Bernovski, 41, in 2000 still intrigues today.
THEY kidnap the innocent, spray bullets over entire towns and butcher those who can’t run away fast enough. Finally the world is doing something to stop them.
HE played footy at his local club and worked at Nando’s after school. So how did this young Aussie come to work for the world’s most powerful criminal?
AT first the Queensland couple watched the floodwater without concern, sure that they were safe. But when a frantic phone call made them flee, they ended up directly in the disaster’s path.
AS bushfires rage across Victoria, you can keep abreast of latest developments with this interactive map.
IT’S 25 years since the first copy of the Herald Sun rolled off the presses, and we’ve been at the forefront of crime reporting ever since. These are cases that have shaped us, moved us and changed us.
VISA rules would be relaxed to allow 25,000 international migrants into WA’s northwest over the next 20 years, under a proposal by the state’s highest profile country politician.
FROM 3D printing to augmented reality and harnessing wave power, WA companies are at the cutting edge of technology – but will Perth’s traffic congestion harm future economic productivity?
PERTH’S urban sprawl could be stopped if some of the city’s open space is sacrificed for housing.
FOR five years, Mark Curtis was living it large earning $600 a day drilling on the mines and coming home to a binge-fest of illicit drugs and booze.
THE fire that razed 57 homes in the Perth Hills burned for almost a month. Nearly one year on, the community has banded together in an inspiring show of strength.
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