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Life on Earth is undergoing a period of mass extinction – the sixth in history, and the first caused by humans. As species disappear at an alarming rate, we have learned that we understand only a fraction of Earth’s variety of life.

As humans encroach ever further on prime kangaroo habitat, encounters are becoming more common. So what should you do if you meet a boxing kangaroo?

At a meeting in mayor Bernie Sanders' office in the mid-1980s, city officials were discussing the Burlington waterfront. The city owned almost no land at...

A trio of drug dealers has been jailed for 12 years for being part of a gang that flooded £21 million of cocaine onto the streets of Britain.

The ringleader of an organised crime group who supplied cocaine worth £21 million to dealers in London and Berkshire has been jailed for 20 years.

Former Burlington director of planning and zoning was a champion for climate change solutions

A renter ticked off over junk mail took a real estate agency to court for trespassing in his letterbox. In a claim filed in the NSW District Court, Sydney resident Mark Eldridge sought an order that Harcourts West Ryde ceased placing unsolicited material in letterboxes. He claimed the agency ignored the no junk mail sticker hed affixed to his letterbox in Dundas in 2018. Come 2020, he began requesting the agency stop delivering material to all letterboxes marked no junk mail. When that didnt wo...

Shahriar SheikhBahaei, Ph.D. Dr. SheikhBahaei’s interest in neuroscience stemmed from the usual combination of an aptitude for science and a medical problem (stuttering) that brought him into bioscience at a young age. Dr. SheikhBahaei received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where he worked with Dr. Bob Zucker on the regulation of neurotransmitter release and Dr. John Rubenstein (UC San Francisco) on development of GABAergic neurons in basal ganglia. Dr...

The past year’s swelling tourist numbers have been accompanied by a spate of development applications for exciting new accommodation sites, breweries and distilleries, and more. Check out our wrap of the 10 most exciting developments headed for the Southern Downs: KILLARNEY RIVERFRONT FARMSTAY Already one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Southern Downs, Killarney is set to gain an exclusive new tourist park. The 10-site Booyong Tourist Park will be situated on 100ha of agric...

Premium Content Subscriber only A NEW luxury camping hotspot hopes to bring an “eco-tourism” boom to Leslie Dam and the wider Warwick area. A development application for “Rosenthal Retreat by Lynley” was this week submitted to SDRC by Mark Eldridge of Ausweld Group, on behalf of Lee Powell and Lynley Kirkpatrick. The Washpool Rd site would contain 12 individual “glamping” sites, with four each of standard queen, deluxe queen, and kingsize cabins. Only the kingsize cabins would prov...