ExclusivePolice & CourtsA Norco worker has been sentenced for ramming a Volvo driver repeatedly at speed on a highway before punching the driver through the window several times. Here’s what happened in court.
ExclusivePolice & CourtsA Bellingen real estate agent who kept his licence on a ‘golden point’ only to lose it, has appealed the matter before a judge who deemed his driving record “terrible”.
ExclusiveMid-North CoastFresh information can be revealed about the items allegedly seized after a teen was arrested following a 59-year-old man having his left hand “cut off” on the Coffs Coast.
ExclusivePolice & CourtsA former Mid-North Coast football coach and landscaper who told a teenager “you look grown up” before grabbing her breasts has been dealt with in court.
NSWThe Australian Electoral Commission has brought charges against a Woolgoolga woman who served as a Coffs Harbour councillor, the deputy mayor and at one stage the acting mayor.
ExclusiveCoffs HarbourA Mid-North Coast judge has refused the awarding of legal costs to a woman acquitted in a high profile kidnapping case, arguing the decision to press charges was reasonable despite a jury’s verdict.
ExclusiveCoffs HarbourA market stallholder known as ‘Mr Hemp’, who supplied cannabis oil for pain management has been sentenced. The unusual outcome joins a growing body of case law set to change future rulings.
Coffs HarbourForget the poolside palms — this sleepy stoner had a towering cannabis plant to lay in the shade under that police quite literally sniffed out, leading to his sentencing in court.
GraftonA Sunshine Coast music teacher has been arrested after police conducted a search warrant and seized items amid allegations a student was sexually and indecently assaulted at Coffs Harbour and Grafton in the 1990s.
ExclusiveCoffs HarbourA fire protection technician has paid up big in a bid to keep his job after a licence suspension for drink driving, where he forked out half his wage to “hire a friend” to chauffeur him to work.