Copper theft costing Queensland taxpayers millions of dollars every year, as rate of crime increases

Experts say cost of living pressures, and the ability to make money quickly, is behind a surge in copper thefts which are leaving highways and sporting fields in the dark.

Advice - Nambucca Heads, Bellingen, and Surrounds severe weather - Monitor conditions

The Bureau of Meteorology advises that a moist and unstable airmass is combining with low-level convergence through northeastern New South Wales to produce isolated severe thunderstorms this afternoon ...