Police officer trapped in police vehicle.

Police officers on the way to an incident roll their vehicle at a roundabout.

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Flash Flooding hits Central West

Over 100mm of rain causes flash flooding throughout parts of Orange.

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Drunk driver takes wrong turn onto footbridge

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Parent's Told To Stay Home with Children

PARENTS who brought children and prams to Friday night's FOOD Week Night Market created unnecessary congestion, coordinator Edwena Mitchell said. "I have a real beef with mothers who brought prams," Mrs Mitchell said.

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Bugger the sceptics – let's start campaigning positively again!

OK, so, we all know the sceptics (deniers? ostriches? anti-science ideologues?) are louder and more obnoxious than they have been for years. It is depressing, it's tiring and it's frustrating. But does it really matter?

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Central Coast in a spin over rumours Obama will sink their battleship

The NSW government is giving one lucky resident of the Central Coast the opportunity to blow up a navy ship, despite vocal resident objection, as rumours abound in the local community that the President of the United States could drop by for the explosion.

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UK-made police scanner makes arresting first choice for Australian buyers

THE most popular news app in Australia for Apple's iPhone is a police scanner made by a 29-year-old programmer living in London who started computer coding when he was 14.

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Heavy rain and hailstorms wreak havoc across southern NSW

EMERGENCY services were forced to evacuate 120 people from a town in southern NSW, and the army was called in to help protect properties at nearby Wagga Wagga, as record rains wreaked havoc across the region.

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Voters warm to Rudd's health plan

KEVIN RUDD has received a resounding endorsement of his health reform plan with eight out of 10 voters supporting the Commonwealth taking a greater role in funding the public hospital system

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Rain fills dams as court allows trade on water rights

ONLY a third of the flooding rains around St George in southern Queensland will make it over the border into NSW once large irrigators such as the cotton farm Cubbie Station fill their dams.

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Health reform - Voters know I'm right.

STATE and federal politicians who try to obstruct the government's health reform plan are defying the wishes of the public for a better hospital system and will pay the price, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, says

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PM unhappy with Israeli silence on passports.

THE Australian government is far from satisfied with the response so far from Israel on the alleged use of Australian passports by a Mossad death squad.

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Australia's love affair with coal burns on.

Australia is set for a renaissance in coal-fired power, with up to 12 new coal-fired power stations planned across the country. According to information collated by Greenpeace, new coal-fired plants are under construction, planned or proposed in all states except Tasmania.

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Wildlife park operators fear sands of mine

The largest free-ranging wildlife sanctuary in NSW could be under threat from a proposed sand mine that will operate less than 40 metres from its boundary.

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