Police debunk mass flood deaths myth
The region’s most senior police officer has moved to quash suggestions that there was an under-reporting of those who have died and are missing in the floods disaster.
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Evacuation orders as Hunter River floods
As the Hunter River swells towards its predicted peak on Wednesday night, parts of Singleton have been forced to escape to higher ground.
Drug driver jailed for crash which killed couple
He was stoned on cannabis and driving erratically when he crashed into the retired couple’s car on a Port Stephens roundabout. Now, a judge has handed down her sentence to Damien Phillip Swan.
1kg of ice seized in suburban drug lab: police
Detectives swooped on the East Maitland street in the dead of night. They allegedly uncovered the clandestine lab, ice and opium.
Beaches pounded as rain system stays low-key
The east coast low may have yet to appear in the Hunter in all its fury, but one of the region’s most famous beaches is again battling survival.
Shocking aerial images show flooded Sydney town
Aerial photos have shown the shocking extent to which a southwest Sydney town has been inundated with floodwaters, as the SES issues new evacuation orders for other towns across the region.
’Broken, sad and lonely’: family front parents’ killer
Children of Ron and Robyn Thomson have told a sentencing hearing about their shattered lives after the couple were killed at Salamander Bay by a driver stoned on cannabis who should not have been driving.
The masked man wanted over random baths stabbing
Brodie Young‘s first thought was to protect his girlfriend after a man randomly attacked them at Newcastle Ocean Baths. It almost cost him his life.
Fire crews praised for bravery in saving fuel tanks
More than 100 firefighters took four hours to stop the spread of the huge blaze in former wool sheds at Wickham from catching onto nearby fuel tanks containing eight million litres of diesel and unleaded fuel.
Man charged over alleged house party sex assault
Detectives will allege the teenage woman was sexually assaulted during a weekend house party at Port Stephens.
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