Disaster declarations are likely to be made following this week’s severe and “unpredictable” heavy rain and flooding in NSW northern – which has prompted flash floods, evacuations, powerful river flows and wild oceans.
A court has revealed the motive behind why a twice-convicted killer assaulted a fellow inmate with a beetroot tin wrapped in a sock.
In an “extraordinary fall from grace”, a court has heard how a Sydney plastic surgeon paid money to underage girls to meet up with them and perform sexual acts.
A court has heard a Vietnamese national was exploited to watch over a million dollar hydroponic cannabis operation set up in an Upper Hunter home.
A Port Stephens man hit four services stations across the Hunter – the first on New Year’s Day – in a drug-fuelled crime spree which lasted about 28 hours.
He was once found guilty of trying to cover up the brutal murder of mum-of-two Carly McBride before his conviction was sensationally quashed. Now, James Cunneen is back behind bars.
Jacob Bell, accused of fatally stabbing Eddy Lemalama at the front door of his Lake Macquarie home on Good Friday last year, has pleaded not guilty and will face trial.
A mum-of-two has made a bid for bail after she allegedly withheld information from police over a string of public place shootings in Maitland and Lake Macquarie.
The mother of Mackenzie Anderson, murdered by her ex-boyfriend Tyrone Thompson after years of abuse, has bravely vowed to keep fighting for all women despite being outraged by the killer’s sentence.
A man who stabbed his ex-girlfriend 78 times in less than three minutes could be out of jail before he turns 40 after a sentencing judge found his mental health and childhood reduced his moral culpability.
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