Police allege an elderly couple were specifically targeted in a violent, late-night home invasion by masked intruders where they were bashed and were threatened with a gun. Two people have now been charged.
A specialist prison officer, who was part of a team called in to manage “non-compliant” prisoners, has pleaded not guilty to assaulting an inmate during an incident at Cessnock jail.
Two people have escaped serious injury after their gyrocopter nosedived into the northern part of Lake Macquarie as it was attempting to take off. Here is what we know.
A man has been charged with murder after he allegedly stabbed another man in the chest as he opened his front door.
A woman remains behind bars on remand charged with over 30 drug offences after an ounce of methamphetamine was found when police stopped her car on a Lake Macquarie street.
A man and woman have been arrested after allegedly torching a stolen car and taking police on a midmorning foot chase through one of Newcastle’s premier golf courses.
Hi-tech drones have been used to capture tens of thousands of images across a large chunk of land in the centre of NSW as police continue their hunt for information into the disappearance of a farm worker four years ago.
A jury has returned with the verdicts in the trial of three men over the alleged murder of drug dealer David King during a “drug rip gone wrong” on a rural road north of Newcastle.
A boy, 14, is alleged to have taken a stolen car on an hour-long joy ride before he and three other teenagers were dramatically arrested in one of Newcastle’s late-night entertainment precincts. See the pictures.
A judge has been asked to consider whether a man who plunged a hunting knife into the chest of a love rival did not intend to kill him as his victim’s family confronts him in an emotional court appearance.
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