THERE has been a huge surge in internet banking fraud, with more than R1-million reported stolen from Port Elizabeth bank accounts in the last month....more

Cape Town – Emerging farmers who want to sell their newly acquired land cannot be stopped but the government may not approve a zoning change for the land, the Western Cape agriculture department says....more

PRESSURE to get moving on Nelson Mandela Bay‘s new soccer stadium intensified yesterday, when it was announced the city had been confirmed as a venue for the 2009 Confederations Cup....more

MOUNTING pressure from Uitenhage and Despatch residents who strongly feel that the towns are playing second fiddle to Port Elizabeth under the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has forced the municipality to open a mayoral office in Uitenhage....more

RESIDENTS of Red Location in New Brighton had to dive for cover and run for their lives when a gang of armed robbers and police started shooting wildly at each other yesterday....more

AN application for the discharge of a case against two members of the Scorpions accused of firing shots at residents of Bluewater Bay last year, has been turned down in the Port Elizabeth magistrate‘s court....more

THE matter of the controversial Nelson Mandela Bay municipal human resources conference held two years ago – for which golf shirts and other items were sold to the municipality at highly inflated prices – has been reported to Local Government MEC Sam Kwelita....more

ONE Somali has died and another three are in hospital after being set on fire in the past two weeks....more

TWO youths who tracked down a Schoenmakerskop jogger with hunting dogs, raped and robbed her and left her with an incurable sexually transmitted disease, were each sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in the Port Elizabeth High Court yesterday....more

CHILDREN, some as young as nine, have entered the job market instead of going to school....more

Cape Town – The London home and the offices of an arms broker linked to a supplier in South Africa‘s multi-billion-rand arms deal have been raided by Britain‘s Serious Fraud Office, a British newspaper reported yesterday....more

COMMUNITY health workers dealing with HIV/Aids patients complain that some nurses in clinics where antiretrovirals (ARV‘s) are administered are insensitive to patients and fail to keep their HIV-status confidential....more

A NEW R1-million initiative aimed at keeping destitute children and their parents off the street was launched by George executive mayor Bazil Petrus at an official sod turning in Blanco, George, yesterday....more

POLICE are looking for a man who committed a brutal sexual attack on an 11-year- old boy in Grahamstown last year....more

A NEW cost-effective and simple-to- maintain horse-drawn vehicle to accommodate 15 to 30 passengers is to be launched at Village Green in Grahamstown today....more

IF you are planning to spend your summer holidays in Nelson Mandela Bay, you might just bump into the city‘s high-fliers, as most of them say they will spend the holidays at home....more

THERE is a dearth of Afrikaans music on AlgoaFM and it does not go down well with the station‘s listeners....more