WEST GOSFORD STANDOFF ENDS WITHOUT INCIDENT
A man has been arrested following a short standoff at West Gosford yesterday. Around 5:30pm on Friday, police attended a home on Young Street after a woman was allegedly threatened with a firearm...
View ArticlePOLICE SEEK WOMAN IN RELATION TO NEWCASTLE TYRE SLASHING
Police are on the lookout for a woman suspected of slashing car tyres around Newcastle. Since May this year, police have received reports of malicious damage to vehicles in Mayfield and Tighes Hill. In...
View ArticlePASSENGER KILLED AFTER UTILITY COLLIDES WITH TREE NEAR PORT MACQUARIE
A male passenger has died as the result of a single vehicle crash near Port Macquarie last night. Emergency services responded to reports of an accident on Hacks Ferry Road at Telegraph Point around...
View ArticlePAIR THREATENED AND ROBBED BY A GANG ON TH GOLD COAST
Two men have been set upon and robbed by a gang on the Gold Coast last night. Shortly before 10pm, the men aged 20 and 21 were walking along Pitcairn Way at Pacific Pines with two teenage girls, when...
View ArticleDOG OPERATION NETS TWO IN CARDIFF
Two men have been apprehended as a result of a targeted drug dog operation in Lake Macquarie earlier this week. Specialist licensing police targeted the possession and sale of illegal substances in a...
View ArticleFIVE ARRESTS FOLLOWING OPERATION HORNETS
Five people have been arrested over illegal access and trespassing on Commonwealth Land in Northern NSW. Operation Hornets was launched on Friday and concluded on Saturday night. The operation utilised...
View ArticleSECOND ROAD FATALITY IN AS MANY DAYS NEAR PORT MACQUARIE
A man has died and four others have been injured as the result of a four vehicle crash on the Mid-North Coast yesterday. Shortly before 9pm on Sunday, emergency services responded to reports of a crash...
View ArticleMAN DUE TO FACE COURT OVER WARATAH STANDOFF
A man has been charged following a standoff with police in Newcastle overnight. Around 11pm on Sunday, police were contacted by a man allegedly making threats from inside a unit complex on Station...
View Article12PM UPDATE
A fire at a 19th-century former courthouse in Melbourne has been contained but there is extensive damage to the heritage-listed building. A Singapore Airlines plane has caught fire, during an emergency...
View ArticleWEATHER AND WHALES FOR THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF JULIANA’S PADDLE
After an eventful start to her marathon board paddle from Newcastle to the Sunshine Coast, Juliana Bahr Thomson is settling into rhythm of the task ahead. Juliana ran into large swell, freezing...
View ArticleTRUCK ROLL-OVER CLOSES PACIFIC HIGHWAY ON THE MID NORTH COAST
A section of the Pacific Highway on the Mid North Coast remains closed after a heavy vehicle roll over this morning. Around 1:30am today, emergency services responded to reports of a truck roll over on...
View ArticleGOLD COAST FIRE BEING TREATED AS SUSPICIOUS
A café and nearby buildings have suffered extensive damage as the result of a fire on the Gold Coast early this morning. About 2am, emergency services were called to a building fire on Lavarack Road in...
View ArticleTHREE TEENS CHARGED IN 180KPH CROSS-BORDER PURSUIT
A stolen vehicle reached speeds of an estimated 180kph in a cross border pursuit overnight. Just before 11pm, Queensland police informed their NSW colleagues that a stolen vehicle they were monitoring...
View Article21-YEAR-OLD KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN THE STATE’S NORTH
A woman has died in a car crash on the state’s far north coast. Shortly after midday, emergency services were called to the intersection of the Bruxner Highway and Plain Station Road in Tabulam, about...
View ArticleUPDATE: MAN CHARGED FOLLOWING GOLD COAST ATM ROBBERY AT KNIFE-POINT
UPDATE: As a result of their investigations into this robbery, police took a man into custody in Surfers Paradise overnight. A 32-year-old man has been charged with deprivation of liberty, armed...
View ArticleMAN SHOT IN CHEST WITH A SHOTGUN FOLLOWING ALTERCATION
A 20-year-old man has appeared in court after another man was shot on the Central Coast last night. Just before 7pm, police and emergency services responded to reports of a shooting at Tirriki Close in...
View ArticleCANNABIS PLANTS SEIZED NEAR LAKE MACQUARIE
A man has been charged over the seizure of cannabis plants at Lake Macquarie yesterday morning. Police commenced an investigation into the growth and supply of cannabis in May. Their investigations led...
View ArticlePAIR CHARGED OVER MURWILLUMBAH PURSUIT
A man and a teenager have been charged following a police pursuit in the state’s north overnight. Around 11.30am on Friday, New South Wales police located a 24-year-old man and a 17-year-old male...
View ArticleITEMS RECOVERED FROM BREAK AND ENTER THEFTS
A man and a woman have been charged following break-ins throughout the Hunter this month. According to police, properties at Eaglton and Fullerton Cove were broken into over the 6th and 7th of July. In...
View ArticleMAN FOUND IN POSSESSION OF 60 PILLS, BELIEVED TO BE ECSTASY
A man has appeared in court after he was allegedly found in possession of a number of pills. About 10.30pm on Friday, police were called to a licensed premises on Wharf Road in Newcastle, where they...
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