Olympics 2016
►The plot thickens. The Australian Olympic Committee says nine Australian athletes who have been fined 10,000 reais ($4092) each by Brazil for falsifying their accreditation knew what they were doing was illegal, but says they were not to blame. Read more
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► Photographers were all over Rio for Day 14 of the 2016 Olympic Games. See the photos.
►Need a national news snapshot first thing? We've got you covered. But also check out what's happening around regional Australia …
►Bledisloe Cup 2016: Wallabies slump to fifth straight loss as scandal looms large. Read on
►MANDURAH: The Pinjarra Junior Football Club has appealed an 18-game suspension handed down to one of its players on the grounds that he was racially abused. A game between Baldivis and Pinjarra’s year 10 teams was called off last Saturday after a melee broke out. Read on
►NEWCASTLE: For teenager Amy*, it was no more than an innocuous snapshot, capturing a moment with friends biding time in the school playground between classes. She could never have imagined the photo of her, wearing her school uniform, would be uploaded anonymously and without her consent to an explicit website, alongside demands to track down photos of her nude. Read on
►ULLADULLA: A veteran’s moving tribute to his wife has gone viral on Facebook, with the solider praising his wife's courage in supporting him through mental illness. Read the full story
►LAUNCESTON: Development plans at the former CH Smith Marine site in Launceston remain in limbo, despite renewed calls from the public to tear the building down. The outcry from locals came after police reported a fire was deliberately lit in the building on Friday. Read on
►MOUNT ISA: The Mount Isa AFL preliminary finals were brought to an early end as a player suffered a seizure at the grounds. Read more
►WOLLONGONG: A woman has credited firefighters and “Daniel from number 65” for saving her Waples Road home from a suspected electrical fire that broke out Saturday afternoon. Read more
►GLEN INNES: The turf war over the NSW government’s greyhound racing ban has widened with a second National Party MP rebuking Barnaby Joyce. National Party Upper House MP Trevor Khan has backed Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall’s calls for Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce to “butt out” of the debate, and stop running commentary. Read on
National news
►MELBOURNE: It's a case of Pokemon Go away! Trouble is brewing between Melbourne's golfers and Pokemon Go enthusiasts after a council banned the gamers from their course. Every day and night hundreds of Pokemon Go gamers have descended on the Glen Waverley Golf Course, which has been listed as a hot spot for finding Charmanders and rare Pokemon. Read on
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International news
►RUSSIA: For the first time since flight MH17 was shot down, Buk missile launchers may have returned to Eastern Ukraine. The deployment of the Buk launchers in the Donbass, reported by Ukrainian intelligence agencies on Monday and by independent defence analysts, is part of a bigger display of military muscle by Russia. Read on
►USA: A suspected heroin dealer tried to evade police capture by wearing a $US2000 mask - but was caught nonetheless. Police surrounded a house in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, in the search for Shaun "Shizz" Miller, wanted in connection with drug trafficking charges. The 31-year-old Miller was ordered to surrender himself. Read more
Faces of Australia: Steve Hilton
HAVING spent his whole life on the road, Mount Isa Rotary Rodeo arena director Steve Hilton has always lived his passion for rodeo. Growing up, Mr Hilton was raised on a station down south with his family. As a child he grew up around campdraft and rodeo arenas and started poddy riding and his adrenaline fueled passion grew from there. When Mr Hilton left school he became a council worker before switching his focus full time to rodeo. He made a living out of rodeo and it took him all over the world. Read on