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NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb at Sandy Beach Reserve, by Macquarie River, Dubbo.

‘We’re going to lose a generation of children’: Webb declares war on youth crime

Some children are committing break and enters, posing for photos while holding machetes over victims’ sleeping bodies and boasting about it on social media.

  • Amber Schultz

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Dugald Saunders and Jo Haylen have both fallen foul of the rules around using public-funded transport.

NSW Nationals leader jetted to the wineries. He took ministerial car too

Documents released via freedom of information show then-agriculture minister Dugald Saunders took a ministerial vehicle with him on a controversial Hunter Valley trip.

  • Michael McGowan
NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders

Jetting to the wineries: NSW Nationals leader took RFS plane to Hunter Valley

NSW Nationals leader Dugald Saunders was the only passenger on a 34-minute taxpayer-funded flight from Dubbo to the Hunter region for a two-day trip which included a wine tour and tasting.

  • Michael McGowan, Alexandra Smith and Max Maddison
Composite for Dubbo Base Hospital story

The housing change that has these doctors furious

FIFO doctors raised concerns ranging from the distance between the hospital and accommodation to a lack of comfortable furniture and crockery.

  • Angus Thomson
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The weekend that landed Latrell in trouble

It was meant to be a weekend of good deeds by the South Sydney star. It made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Daniel Billings is now in custody.

The cruel twist of fate that let an accused killer walk free

Daniel Billings was charged with stalking, rape and animal cruelty. Police said he’d threatened his former partner. There was no magistrate, so a registrar gave him bail.

  • Jordan Baker, Perry Duffin and Jonathan Drennan
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The male driver, believed to be in his 30s, died at the crash site.

Bus driver hailed for saving lives in fatal crash near Dubbo

A man is dead and multiple people injured after a car that police had been pursuing moments earlier collided with a bus on a highway in Central West NSW.

  • Megan Gorrey and Angus Thomson
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cr: Destination NSW (handout image supplied via journalist, no syndication) KW - Vehicle approaching Mount Oxley near the town of Bourke in Outback NSW.

Last weekend, a five-year-old broke into a house to steal a car

A youth crime crisis in some areas of regional Australia is fuelling long-standing tension between Indigenous residents, the wider community and police.

  • Jordan Baker
Mieka Pokarier died while on her way to see Taylor Swift’s concert.

Swiftie killed on ‘road trip of a lifetime’ to Melbourne Eras show

A teenager has died and her 10-year-old sister has been critically injured in a crash in NSW as they were driving from the Gold Coast.

  • Alex Crowe
An artist’s impression of No.1 Church Street in Dubbo, a 15-storey apartment building that is under construction.

High-rise in country NSW points to new way of bush living

Big houses among the gum trees dominate the streetscape in regional towns and villages. But that’s about to change.

  • Catherine Naylor

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