19+ hour, 29+ min ago  (621+ words) No helmet, no rego, no insurance. That trifecta, coupled with a blood alcohol reading in the mid-range, was all a court needed to put a motorbike rider off the road for six months. David Robert Curtis, 38, of Loren Street, Eglinton,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (590+ words) West Coast coach Andrew Mc Qualter has declared the sky is the limit for Harley Reid after the star midfielder willed his team to an upset 17-point win over GWS at Optus Stadium. The Giants led by nine points early…...

1+ day, 7+ min ago  (255+ words) IT's taken decades to get there but when One Nation finally won a Lower House seat in a Riverina by election (after failing a few days earlier in a similar contest in Victoria) the commentary would have us believe the…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (511+ words) A row has broken out over the cost of cutting taxes for millions of Australians as Labor and the opposition try to sell rival economic plans to voters. After a week dominated by the state of the nation's finances, Prime…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (334+ words) A woman's decomposing body lay in the hallway of a home she shared with a man for weeks before being discovered by a relative after the man was detained for a medical assessment. The gruesome discovery of the 61-year-old woman's…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (607+ words) Australia has been eclipsed at the world's biggest song contest with Delta Goodrem's performance finishing fourth, dashing hopes for the nation's first Eurovision winner. The former Neighbours star dazzled at the grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna,…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (419+ words) With their championship dream in tatters, Newcastle coach Mark Milligan's message is simple: remember the pain. Newcastle's audacious bid to become the first A-League Men team to pull off a domestic treble ended in heartbreak after a semi-final loss to…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (215+ words) Eight people "have been injured when a car drove into pedestrians in the centre of "the northern "Italian "city of Modena, "police and the city's mayor say. Police said the driver, a man in his "30s, "was arrested and "there was…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago  (48+ words) Lithgow Mercury Parties warming to big-swinging politics Ever since the industrial age spawned unions and their political arm, centre-left parties have understood that gaining power required them to park radicalism to avoid frightening voters. Login or signup to continue reading...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (316+ words) The Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories Lithgow Mercury Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents The Fragility of Goodness: The Prison on the Landscape and Other Stories by Elizabeth Day, curated by Ann Finegan. Elizabeth…...