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Richard Noone is a senior journalist on the NSW Central Coast covering crime, courts, emergency services and general news.

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Central Coast

The water gauge on the Wyong River at Yarramalong shows levels have dropped from 78cm to 63cm in recent weeks. Picture: Department of Primary Industries Office of Water

Fish dying as Wyong River dries

DISTRESSING video has emerged of native Australian bass suffocating in the muddy shallows of Wyong River, which is just 7mm from ceasing to flow.

Central Coast

Kerry Breslin works on recycled bikes at Alison Homestead, Wyong on Friday 19th January 2018. Alison Homestead Men's Group does up old and unwanted bikes and gives them to poor people and charities overseas. (AAP IMAGE / Troy Snook)

Time to `up cycle’ old bikes

GET on ya bike, Coasties, it’s time to “up cycle”.

Central Coast

Kate Carragher , 34 and Andrew Cooney , 22, at Norah Head. They have both made it into the top 25 in Discovery channel's Intern search. Saturday 20th January. ( AAP image / Mark Scott )

Coasties vie for Discovery gig

YOUR vote could help send a Coastie on a globetrotting adventure of a lifetime.

Central Coast

Historian Peter Rea with a scale model replica of the HMAS Patricia Cam at Yattalunga on Friday 19th January 2018. The Patricia Cam was a wooden ship that was built at Daleys Point before WWII and later requisitioned by the Navy. It was sunk off the Northern Territory by a Japanese sea plane . (AAP IMAGE / Troy Snook)

Memorial unveiled to ship sunk by Japanese

THE life of the wooden collier Pat Cam began in a Daleys Point shipyard and ended far from home off the Northern Territory where it was fatally bombed by a Japanese seaplane. A scale replica has been unveiled to mark the 75th anniversary of its sinking.

Animals

The dog attacked with speargun at Woy Woy.

Barking dog shot in head with spear gun

A COURT heard “something has gone wrong” with a man who snapped over a neighbour’s barking dog.

Central Coast

Court hears man snapped before shooting dog

A COURT has heard “something has gone wrong” with a man who finally snapped at a neighbour’s barking dog and allegedly bashed it over the head before shooting it in the head with a speargun.

Central Coast

Up to 20 cars had their windows smashed around Bateau Bay by a group of people who hung out of a car window and hit random cars with a tomahawk or some other weapon. Picture: supplied.

20 cars hit in vandalism rampage

UP to 20 cars had their side windows smashed in “40 minutes of carnage” around Bateau Bay early yesterday morning by a group using a tomahawk or similar weapon.

Central Coast

Senior Sergeant Rob Lawson (main) with Leading Senior Constable Adrian Lewis, Leading Senior Constable Leanne Woolsey and Senior Constable Katrina Shaw. Traffic & Highway Patrol will be cracking down on back streets and rat runs these school holidays.(AAP Image/Sue Graham)

Police to blitz backstreets

Forty people have died and 2,773 people were injured on Central Coast roads in the past three years — enough to fill six 747 jumbo jets.

Central Coast

Elena Korchik, 59, was lucky to survive after a large rock allegedly came off the back of an oncoming ute and slammed through her windscreen on Woy Woy Rd. Pictures: supplied.

5kg rock smashes through car window

A Central Coast woman has had the closest of shaves after a 5kg rock crashed through her windscreen, showering her in glass and injuring her shoulder.

Central Coast

Early crowds at Avoca Beach on Saturday the 6th January 2018 as temperatures are set to rise to a possible 38C today.(AAP Image/Sue Graham)

Coast is a melanoma hotspot

WITH the mercury set to soar back into the mid 30s over the next few days health experts are reminding parents of the importance of sun safety messages such as “slip, slop, slap”.

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