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17 hours ago | aboutregional.com.au | Oliver Jacques

Creditors for collapsed clothing brand Jeanswest say laid off employees can expect to receive their full entitlements, after $15 million in revenue was raised during closing down sales. Parent company Harbour Guidance Pty Ltd announced it had entered voluntary administration in March, meaning all 87 Jeanswest store across Australia have now stopped trading. More than 600 employees were left out of a job.

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | Albert McKnight

Police have launched an interstate manhunt for a driver alleged to have fled the scene of a traffic stop. An ACT Policing spokesperson alleged 49-year-old man Adam Sosnowski was involved in a traffic stop near Murrumbateman in NSW on Tuesday morning (17 June) when he fled from police. The vehicle he was travelling in, a 2016 blue Subaru Forester with NSW registration DDH32T, was seen travelling at high speeds in the ACT and was last seen in Tharwa.

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | Nicholas Ward

The Southern Corroboree frog is almost extinct in its natural habitat of Kosciuszcko, due to the chytridiomycosis fungus, and the loss of rare alpine habitat, but new genome mapping of the amphibian could bring it back from the brink. It’s a project that has been in the works for a long time, according to Dr Tiffany Kosch, Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, who said it took 10 years to map the genome of the ‘functionally extinct’ frogs.

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | Albert McKnight

A student at Goulburn’s police academy has been stood down after allegedly crashing into a boom gate at the facility while drunk. Security officers at the NSW Police Force Academy in Goulburn were alerted to damage caused to a front boom gate at the entrance of the facility just after midnight on Saturday (14 June), a police spokesperson said.

1 week ago | aboutregional.com.au | Oliver Jacques

As a fat man who identifies as skinny (trans-slender), I couldn’t help but shudder upon hearing that a sugar tax is again up for debate in Australia. But the simple truth is that raising the price of soft drinks and/or confectionery won’t properly address the obesity epidemic unless something is done to make healthy alternatives cheaper and easier to access for low-income earners and those with busy lives.