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BackTrack Night Crew workers Steph Olsen and Zac Craig at Armidale’s police station.

Fast track BackTrack: Program for troubled kids must be replicated

Community-led programs are the key to helping stem youth crime.

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Theresa Binge’s body was found in a stormwater culvert in July 2003. No one has been charged over her murder.

Theresa’s family has spent 20 years looking for answers. Now police are offering $1m to find her killer

More than two decades after the 43-year-old mother was murdered, detectives are renewing their efforts to deliver justice.

  • Riley Walter
Police arrest a yoPolice arrest a young person in Dubbo over the weekend as part of Operation Soteria.ung person in Dubbo over the weekend as part of Operation Soteria.

‘Post-and-boast’ youth criminals targeted by covert intelligence

Police will turn to surveillance tactics usually reserved for serious gangsters, having recorded a 40 per cent drop in break-ins and car thefts in regional NSW.

  • Perry Duffin
The stolen FJ cruiser being towed after the fatal crash that killed a teenage boy.

The moment NSW’s youth crime wave shocked top cop

A grieving mother lay on the scorching road where her son had just died in a high-speed chase. The senior officer in charge of ending the youth crime crisis says the stakes are high.

  • Perry Duffin
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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
David John Henderson accepts Lismore citizen of the year award in 2020.

Police bashed children, hid body camera footage, court told

Veteran police are facing trial for punching, hitting and swearing at teens. Their defence argues their actions should be judged on “the agony of the moment”, not hindsight.

  • Jordan Baker
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A home inundated by floodwaters along the Hawkesbury River in March this year.

Evacuation orders issued in Moree, Sydney warned of Hawkesbury-Nepean flooding

Western Sydney residents are being warned of rising waters in the flood-prone Hawkesbury-Nepean as flooding continues across inland NSW.

Armidale hospital is among a string of facilities in the NSW Hunter that have put out an urgent call for nursing staff.

‘Google these towns’: Urgent plea for nurses across 14 regional hospitals

Severe shortages across regional NSW has prompted health officials to offer up to $500 a week in bonus payments to lure nurses to hospitals, including Tamworth, Tenterfield, Moree and Armidale.

  • Lucy Carroll and Carrie Fellner
Steve Morson says the happy hour conversation rarely veers from COVID and the border.

‘Harder than you think’: Unhappy campers count down to Queensland border reopening

At about 4pm each afternoon, happy hour arrives at Moree Showground. It’s the highlight of the day for a group of otherwise unhappy campers.

  • Jenny Noyes
Melanie McGrady with her daughter Taqueesha Williams and nephew Zachary McIntosh outside their Boggabilla home.

The tiny border town cut off by Queensland, where there’s only one shop and no cash

The unvaccinated outnumber the vaccinated in Boggabilla and Toomelah, where only the fully jabbed are allowed over the border to shop for the bare essentials.

  • Jenny Noyes