NB

Hopes DV event will spark charge Organisers of the first conference on domestic violence (DV) on the Beaches are hoping it will kickstart a movement to stop one in four women being killed every four days in Australia by an intimate...

NBS

Size of new SLSC shocks as plans released Council has revealed that the budgeted $11 million for the redevelopment of Manly Surf Life Saving Club has shot up to between $18 and $20 million. It has released a new ‘refined’ concept revamp...

NBS

Officers attached to the Northern Beaches Police Area Command responded to a break-in call in Callory. Neighbours of a unit on Ramsay St called the authorities at about 5.30pm on 28 July to report “two men” inside the unit. Police attended to...

PW

Scamps calls for urgent action against diabetes Independent Federal Member for Mackellar Dr Sophie Scamps has called on the Federal Government to urgently implement a proposed 20 per cent levy on sugar-sweetened beverages, as Australia wallows in a diabetes epidemic. A House...

NS

Kylea Tink pushes to plead her case The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is likely to hold an inquiry over the proposed abolition of the seat of North Sydney, following the receipt of hundreds of objections to the move. Last month, the independent...

NS

An investigation has been launched after the bodies of a man and a woman were found on a boat moored off Cammeray at about 9pm on 31 July. Emergency services were called to a mooring at Tunks Park, due to concerns...

PW

Dob in the dumpers, says council Council is cracking down on illegal dumping, with over 1,500 cases reported from January to June this year, and has encouraged the community to report incidents of dumping. Council recently prosecuted and issued a $1,000 fine...

NB

Vacant Wesley Taylor gives new life In a move set to benefit countless women at risk of homelessness, the new owners of the former Wesley Taylor Residential Aged Care Facility have temporarily handed over their empty site to the Northern Beaches...

NS, NB

A 55-year-old man accused of allegedly filming a child in a store in the Northern Beaches has been asked to be back in Manly court on 27 August. The man, a French Forest local, was allegedly seen filming up the skirt...

NB

With polar snaps having recently hit Australia’s east coast, Fire and Rescue NSW (FRNSW) is warning the public not to take dangerous risks to stay warm in their homes. With the Australian Bureau of Meterology predicting that ‘periods of unusually cold...