After Paul Cohrs gunned down his elderly mother in her home, he drove off and left his four-year-old grandson to find her body. The boy stepped into the kitchen on the afternoon of October 30, 2018, to see his great-grandmother Bette Schulz Cohrs lying on the kitchen floor covered in blood. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: … Read more
Parents are being urged to secure freestanding ovens and supervise their children at all times after a 19-month-old girl was crushed under an oven in New Zealand. The inquest of Kendra Paisley Ann Scanlon found the oven was unsecured when it fell on her on April 28, 2022 at her family home in Rotorua, on … Read more
Supermarkets have come under fire for a “depressing” amount of plastic used on produce. A Melbourne man shared a photo online of the packaged fruit in Preston Woolworths, writing alongside it: “Genuinely made me feel like they are actively trying to make Australia a living hell.” It feels like positive steps are being negated by … Read more
The Australian suburbs being crushed under the weight of “extreme rental stress” have been highlighted in sobering new data. A September Rental Pain Index (RPI) report by property research and analysis firm Suburbtrends shows 35 areas at breaking point. The RPI score is calculated using a number of factors including rent changes over the last … Read more
Whooping cough cases have skyrocketed in Victoria, with the state’s health department labelling the worrying increase a “public health concern”. More than 10 times the number of cases has been recorded so far in 2024 than for the whole of last year, with children aged 9–12 accounting for nearly 40 per cent of all cases. … Read more
Selected Vintage Cellars and First Choice Liquor Market stores will soon be rebranded as part of Coles’ continued transformation of its liquor brand. Coles Liquor Group will convert nine stores across South Australia, Victoria and Queensland into Liquorland Cellars and Liquorland Warehouse stores as part of a new pilot program. The supermarket giant has been … Read more
Lotto officials are on the hunt for five lucky mystery Melburnians who each pocketed over $500,000 over the weekend after their syndicate won big. The store syndicate held one of eight division one winning entries in TattsLotto draw 4499 which was drawn on Saturday. If that win wasn’t enough, the syndicate’s marked system entry also … Read more
Two Romanian nationals living in Sydney have been jailed over a $36,000 ATM card “shimming” scam. The 34-year-old man and 33-year-old woman installed the shimmers on ATMs across Sydney and Melbourne to clone victims’ financial data. “ATM shimmers are thin, card-sized metal devices that act like a spacer when inserted into the card slot of … Read more
Victoria has been rocked by a second earthquake in a week. The magnitude 3.4 earthquake was recorded at Hamilton, in the state’s southwest, at 5.09am on Thursday. The quake had a depth of 3km. Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today VIC SES said there had not been many felt reports and that … Read more
Petrol prices are at an almost 12-month low in some parts of Australia and are expected to stay low for some time unless simmering tensions in the Middle East boil over. The average price of fuel in NSW in the month of August 2024 was $1.87, very close to the 12-month low of $1.86 seen … Read more
