Twenty-one years after he slayed three of his four family members at their Albion Park Rail Home, De Gruchy has reinvented himself as a model inmate of Junee Correctional Centre. With his parole hearing in sight, he has earned the right, since June, to leave prison for approved reasons including work and education. Read more

►SA: The local country pub is often an integral part of regional South Australian communities.

Despite being a crucial spot for local residents to gather, pubs can often suffer financially for a number of reasons.

In this special feature, Fairfax Media SA journalists toured their local pubs and investigate how communities can best support their local ‘watering hole’. Read more

►MUDGEE: Registered and unregistered firearms have been seized by police from a home in Wellington and throughout the Mudgee region as part of a two-day operation targeting outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCG). Read more

►WA: An elderly tourist from interstate has died in the Cape Le Grand National Park, while walking near Frenchmans Peak.

The man in his 70s had been walking in the area and died from a medical condition, believed to be a heart-attack, on Friday around 10:40am. Read more

►TAS: More than 100 years have passed since the 40th Battalion left Tasmania, but its legacy will not be forgotten this Anzac Day. 

Many of the Battalion of Tasmanian soldiers would go on to sacrifice their lives on the battlefields of France and Belgium.

This year, the Army Museum of Tasmania is commemorating Australia’s military history through its new Six-Bob-A-Day Tourists exhibition in Hobart. Read more

►VIC: On Saturday, World Earth Day, the Discovery Centre played host to both the Bendigo Regional Food Alliance’s Edible Oasis project and Coder Dojo, a programming club for children and teenagers.

The Edible Oasis project is teaching residents how to grow their own food in a water-wise manner, with wicking beds being established at certain locations in the city to grow vegetables for the use of community members. Read more

►NSW: Oakvale Farm and Fauna World is celebrating its most successful koala breeding season on record.

Five of the Salt Ash farm’s six female koalas are currently carrying joeys, which curator Lachlan Gordon said was “exciting”. Read more

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► North Korea: North Korea's foreign ministry has lashed out at Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and warned Australia was "coming within the range of the nuclear strike".

The threats were reported by the North Korean state news agency KCNA as being made on Friday, in response to a radio interview given by Ms Bishop. Read more

► US: As the fate of the US-Australia refugee deal hangs in the balance, Michael Gordon and Alex Ellinghausen visit Manus Island to find out who might be gifted a new life, and what will happen to those left behind. Read more

Harold Harman was just 22 years old when he shipped out to Korea to take up arms for his country in 1951.

He would spend a little more than a year of his young life completing his tour of duty, on the peninsula and in Japan, but it would be an experience that would shape him forever.

Now 89, Harman says there is still “a lot of sadness there” when reflecting on his service in the Korean War, but in the lead up to Anzac Day, the Kangaroo Flat resident agreed to share some of the memories that have stayed with him to this day. Read more