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NSW Fair Trading is warning against Robert Douglas Pentecost, who has conned a string Sydney residents.

Water police have used sonar equipment in the search for a missing fisherman at a Victorian lake.

A driver mounted a gutter and drove at a man, carrying him 50 metres before he was thrown on to a road in suburban Melbourne, police say.

An elderly woman is in a serious but stable condition after she was stabbed in the neck by an intruder at her home in Melbourne's east.

More than $500,000 has accidentally been overpaid to not-for-profit organisations in Queensland from gambling profits, a report says.

A new report has slammed Queensland's Drink Safe Precinct trials in Fortitude Valley, Townsville and Surfers Paradise as ineffective and poorly-planned.

Archbishop Denis Hart has admitted that a comment that an attempt to defrock an abusing priest was "better late than never" was ill advised.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants the govenrment to do more to encourage buisnesses to take on new apprentices.

Police and volunteers have spent another day searching for a man who disappeared after going on a tandem paragliding flight on the Victorian coast.