What began as a missing persons inquiry, then morphed into a fraud investigation, is now probing the details surrounding the death of a man who had succumbed in hospital six weeks before police and family were even told.
New information can be revealed as investigations continue into a suspicious blaze that saw a Hunter workshop burn to the ground. It took more than 60 firefighters to get it under control.
ICAC has raided a regional company which has been awarded more than $110 million in tenders from Transport for NSW over the past decade.
A state government-sanctioned mass cull of “invasive species” in a world heritage-listed national park has successfully killed more than 650 animals, including more than 300 wild horses.
A man and woman have been placed on drug and booze bans as part of strict bail conditions after police allegedly found an array of drugs and cash during an overnight traffic stop on a suburban Lake Macquarie street.
A man who threatened to stab a motorist and broke some of his bones before stealing a Holden Commodore, which would later transport four masked gunmen to a brazen dawn shooting in a small Hunter village, has learnt his fate.
Specialist anti-bikie police have taken a “suspected Hells Angel associate” into custody over the alleged unprovoked bashing of two men at a popular inner-suburban Newcastle pub.
Two men remain behind bars on remand after being charged over an alleged pre-dawn home invasion where a man was stabbed in the shoulder and a woman was also injured.
As a man faces court charged with murdering his wife by running her over in front of horrified relatives, detectives have started a deep dive into a Hunter couple’s private history, including the tragic death of a son last year.
A mother and son have been charged after a man was discovered in bushland suffering gunshot wounds to both legs.
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