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- Editorial
- Crime
Fast track BackTrack: Program for troubled kids must be replicated
Community-led programs are the key to helping stem youth crime.
- The Herald's View
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- Cold case
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
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- Crime
‘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
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- Crime
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
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
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- Courts
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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- NSW weather
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.
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- Hospitals in crisis
‘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
‘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
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