Alex Turner-Cohen

A local council has awarded nearly half a million dollars' worth of contracts to a builder with a fraught past. 

A 53-year-old man is in police custody after allegedly stabbing a man to death in a car park on a Charlestown shopping strip.

New Zealand's financial watchdog has issued a warning about an embattled internet scheme founded by an Australian with a colourful past. 

Embattled startup Lightweb suspends refunds to customers indefinitely in the wake of ABC reporting on its founder's identity. 

It was pitched as the opposite of the dark web, an "ethical" version of the internet raising as much as $19 million from backers sold on an Australian man's promise of the "Lightweb".

As many as 2,000 people lined up to give this man their money — and then they learned his true identity.

The mine has cut two-thirds of its workforce as its debt continues to climb past the $200 million mark. 

A Facebook group with only five members criticising developer Kinslake could be enough for this family to lose thousands of dollars. 

Creditors feel "duped" and fear they will lose millions as administrators are called in to take control of a Hunter Valley mine.

The troubled Dartbrook coal mine has plunged into receivership and administration just months after it reopened following years of disuse.

More than 90 people were swept up in the multi-police-agency crackdown, with 21 of those believed to be either victims or offenders of romance and investment scams.