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Five people – including four teenagers – have been charged in relation to two alleged break and enter offences in the Hunter region. Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have been investigating two separate break and enter offences at a business on the New...
Double demerits will apply from midnight tonight till the 26th January 2021 for the Australia day period. Police will be targeting – drink and drug driving. speeding. seatbelts. mobile phone use. If you do drink this Australia day weekend, drink responsibility and do not drive.
A woman has been charged with high-range drink driving after allegedly colliding with an unmarked police car whilst more than four times the legal limit in Lake Macquarie. About 5.15pm yesterday (Wednesday 21 January 2021), a male senior constable stopped in the breakdown lane of...
Emergency services were called to Strzelecki Lookout at Bar Beach overnight around 6pm Wednesday 20th January after receiving reports of concerns for the welfare of man Upon arrival emergency services discovered a body of a man. Police have established a crime scene and a recovery...
Members of the public are urged to avoid the Bar Beach Carpark, Anzac Memorial Walk and Strzelecki Lookout this morning, as a police operation is underway. The Anzac Memorial Walk will be blocked for some hours whilst the operation is ongoing.
Police have seized several prohibited weapons and precursors for explosives during a search of a Lake Macquarie home. About 12.30pm yesterday (Tuesday 19 January 2021), officers from Lake Macquarie Police District were assisting Sheriff’s Officers with an eviction order at a Swansea property, where they...
The 57 year-old Volunteer has been charged with 3 counts of sexually touching a child under age of 10 at a youth club near Newcastle. A volunteer youth worker will reappear in court today charged over the alleged sexual touching of a young boy near...
The NSW government has released it’s school restrictions for 2021 and some parents are outraged that they will be shut out from assisting their young children transitioning into Kindergarten after day one. Whilst other parents are confused over wearing masks on public transport in the...
The Newcastle Show will go ahead at 100% capacity for the three day event held from Friday March 5 through to Sunday the 7th. Whilst the Cessnock show has been covid cancelled and the Maitland show is in doubt. Newcastle Show spokeswoman Kathryn Thomson told...
Sit down, shut up and comply, take the jab or you could be excluded from society, no job, no Centrelink benefits, no access to restaurants, government buildings or even supermarkets under a radical plan MS Berejiklian and her Government is cooking up. Whilst this may...
A woman has died, and a second woman was injured following a single-vehicle crash in the state’s Hunter region today. Just after 11am (Sunday 17 January 2021), emergency services were called to Allyn River Road, Upper Allyn, about 50km east of Muswellbrook, after reports a...
A woman is assisting police after a man suffering stab wounds was located in the Port Stephens-Hunter region last night About 7.20pm (Saturday 16 January 2021), police received information concerning a man’s welfare at a home at Ronald Street, Tenambit. Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police...
A Cessnock man presented to Maitland hospital with minor stab wounds after allegedly being attacked near his home at Cessnock. The victim reported that he was riding his trail bike in bushland adjacent to Alkira Avenue around 12 midday on the 13/01/21 when he was...
Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate a boy missing from the Hunter region. Jayden Dalton, aged 12, was last seen at a shopping centre on the corner of Thomas Coke Drive and Taylor Avenue, Thornton, about 7.40pm yesterday (Friday 15 January 2021)....
The Service NSW app could become the home of your vaccine passport under a radical plan by Premier Gladys Berejiklian to encourage people to get vaccinated. Premier Gladys Berejiklian says she does not want people to be punished for not having the jab. “We have...
A teenager has died while swimming in a public pool in the Hunter region this afternoon. About 3.30pm today (Friday 15 January 2021), emergency services were called to an aquatic centre on Les Darcy Drive, Maitland, following reports a teenager was in trouble in the...
A man remains in custody after police alleged he brutality stabbed two women in the Hunter Valley overnight. Officers from Hunter Valley Police District were called to a home on the Pacific Way at Muswellbrook about 7pm (Tuesday 12 January 2021), and found a 27-year-old...
In the early hours of Sunday morning thieves have smashed their way through the main glass doors at the Leader Shopping Centre in Cessnock. Once inside, the thieves targeted the popup mobile phone shop and smashed glass displays and made off with mobile phone accessories...