Year in review: Best stories

Click on each link to read the full story. The Examiner (Tasmania) Strip club planned for Hub hotel Tower star of a $70m city vision Police hunt CBD attacker Grief flows for three dead hunters Ravenswood: 'It's not a fair cop' The Courier (Ballarat) Ballarat's rising sons Tributes flow for Jason Govan: a community mourns Life without Nathan: mum tells Ballarat family pleas for nephew's return after Thai diving accident TAFE course cuts revealed Leeton Irrigator Probe continues into fire that killed five horses No exemption for by-election Cracking future with planned $10 million plant Re-enactment draws big crowd Shire awash Junee Southern Cross Second habitat home Farmers pass no-confidence motion Harefield freight terminal starts operation Junee mourns John Strudwick Home built aircraft to be used for charity run Newcastle Herald Train line to be cut at Wickham Live coverage of the Hunter council elections PM launches child abuse inquiry Taxman chases Tinkler's teams; clubs vow to survive Figs finally fall at Laman Street Eastern Riverina Chronicle Under we went Power play Daily Advertiser (Wagga) Nightclub releases Uden footage Conkey cops criticism over Wagga movie Friends gather to mourn skitcher Murder-suicide tragedy tears family apart Valentine's Day kidnapper convicted Warrnambool Standard Suspicious Flagstaff Hill fire destroys buildings Desecration of dead whale is stupid, wrong and illegal Telstra services begin to recover after exchange fire Storm as Warrnambool Council candidates allege smear tactics Embattled Community Connections shuts its doors Illawarra Mercury Gong murders, disappearance linked: police Bulli rapist Terry Williamson free on parole Government bows to parking pressure More residents hit by NRMA shocker Port backflip: asbestos-tainted soil to go Western Advocate (Bathurst) Snow falls across the Central West Bathurst, Kelso cut off Giraffe spotted in the streets of Bathurst Four dead in highway crash at Glanmire Community mourns a dedicated father and teacher Daily Liberal (Dubbo) Kitoto struggles to adjust in new Sydney home Malcolm Naden captured alive Zoo mourns after death of Dubbo’s ‘nice old lady’ Four rhinos die in Dubbo zoo A lost friend Central Western Daily (Orange) Man bites snake and puts it down to experience League star dies in horror crash The final straw: youths attack staff member Pyramid scam: fraudster in Cairo cleans out Orange bank account Young couple forced to live in station wagon

Year in review: Best stories

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