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1 week ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Hamish McNeilly |Rachel Moore |Josefine Ganko
A 22-year-old Horowhenua man will need more time to consider his pleas to charges relating to a large boy racer invasion that saw multiple people hurt, a court has heard. Tyrone Murphy made his second appearance in the Levin District Court on Tuesday, accused of several offences relating to the May 31 gathering. He made his first appearance shortly after the invasion that saw more than 1000 people gather to watch street racing and burnouts at various locations in Horowhenua and Manawatū.
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1 week ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Matthew Rosenberg |Chris Marriner |Amber Schultz |Josefine Ganko
A conservation group says it is “devastated” after hundreds of protected seabirds were killed by a fishing trawler off the Southland coast. Chelsea McGaw, Forest & Bird’s regional conservation manager for Otago and Southland said the deaths of 207 tītī/sooty shearwaters, caught by a single trawler near Te Waewae Bay in February, would have likely left the seabirds’ chicks to die from starvation.
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1 week ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Sally Rawsthorne |Josefine Ganko |Riley C. Walter |Perry Duffin
Dramatic CCTV has shown the moment two masked gunmen burst into Auburn’s M Brothers Turkish restaurant while diners run into a back room and throw stools at the shooters in an attempt to protect themselves. The daylight shooting in the heart of Sydney’s west on Monday afternoon linked to infighting within the Alameddine crime clan was the third attempted assassination of Samimjan Azari, a senior member of the notorious crime group.
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1 week ago | 
smh.com.au | Josefine Ganko |Riley Walter |Perry Duffin
By Josefine Ganko, Riley Walter and Perry Duffin June 17, 2025 — 8.55am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Police are investigating a possible link between three suspicious car fires and the Auburn shooting, as a major manhunt continues for two masked gunmen who stormed a Turkish restaurant and shot three people in broad daylight on Monday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Sally Rawsthorne |Josefine Ganko |Ajit Solanki |Rajesh Roy
Search teams were looking around the Thomason Rd and Lake Mangamahoe areas on Thursday, a police spokesperson said. They had asked anyone out along the mountain bike and walking tracks to keep an eye out for Jan. Police had also asked farmers or residents in the surrounding areas of Alfred Rd and Albert Rd to check their paddocks, backyards, sheds, sleepouts and under anything where a person could seek shelter.
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2 weeks ago | 
stuff.co.nz | Sally Rawsthorne |Josefine Ganko
Australian police are investigating whether the deaths of two people found with “lacerations” inside a granny flat on a property at Forestville on Sydney’s northern beaches were the result of a murder-suicide. Officers were called to the Cannons Parade home about 9.30pm on Wednesday for a welfare check after it was reported the residents of the granny flat hadn’t been seen since Saturday, leading police and Fire and Rescue to break down the door to gain entry to the home.
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2 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Josefine Ganko |Sally Rawsthorne
By Josefine Ganko and Sally RawsthorneUpdated June 12, 2025 — 8.29amfirst published at 6.23am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The bodies of two people have been found inside a granny flat on a property at Forestville on Sydney’s northern beaches.
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3 weeks ago | 
theage.com.au | Josefine Ganko |Emily Kowal |Alexander Darling |Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Key posts1 of 2 12.25pmAdass Israel synagogue fire: Police raid properties in Melbourne’s northern suburbsBy Alexander DarlingVictoria state and federal police say they have carried out a number of search warrants in northern Melbourne, after a Ripponlea synagogue was firebombed late last year. Members of the Adass Israel congregation were forced to flee the synagogue in the early morning of Friday, December 6 after two masked gunmen set it on fire.
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3 weeks ago | 
watoday.com.au | Josefine Ganko |Emily Kowal |Cloe Read |Alexander Darling
Australia news LIVE: Missing Queensland teenager’s housemates arrested over her death; Musk-Trump feud heats up with explosive claims Save Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size Key posts Hide key posts Mark Butler: No biosecurity compromise for US beef deal By Josefine Ganko Jumping back to Health Minister Mark Butler’s appearance on Seven’s Sunrise this morning, where he was asked about an exclusive story in this masthead that revealed US beef could be allowed into Australia...
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3 weeks ago | 
smh.com.au | Josefine Ganko |Emily Kowal |Cloe Read |Alexander Darling
The operator of a jumping castle at the centre of a tragedy that killed six children is expected to find out whether she is guilty of workplace safety breaches. Chace Harrison, Jalailah Jayne-Maree Jones, Zane Mellor, Addison Stewart, Jye Sheehan and Peter Dodt died after the incident at Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport in 2021. They were enjoying end-of-year celebrations on the school’s oval when a wind gust lifted the castle into the air.
