A man will face court today after an alleged armed robbery attempt in the state’s Hunter Region. About 4pm yesterday (Tuesday 3 August 2021), police responded to a report of an attempted armed robbery at a convenience store in Anderson Drive, Tarro. Officers from Port...
The Delta outbreak has meant we need to change the way we manage the virus, and other states have learnt a big lesson from the way NSW mismanaged the Delta Variant. Lockdown hard and fast and smother the virus before it can take hold. NSW...
A man has been charged after a senior constable was allegedly injured during an attempted arrest and police pursuits in Lake Macquarie. About 2.45pm on Tuesday (27 July 2021), officers attached to Northern High Visibility Policing Team attended a carpark on the Pacific Highway at...
Nine people, including eight teenagers, have been arrested following a police pursuit in the Hunter region today. About 11.15am (Wednesday 28 July 2021), officers attached to Newcastle-Hunter Traffic and Highway Patrol observed a Honda Civic allegedly travelling at speed southbound on the Hunter Expressway. A...
An investigation is underway after a body was found following a unit fire at Newcastle this morning. Just after 5am (Monday 26 July 2021), emergency services were called to Fullerton Street, Stockton, following reports of a unit fire. The fire was extinguished by crews from...
A woman will face court after allegedly being caught driving more than six times over the legal limit in the state’s Hunter region yesterday. About 8.30pm (Saturday 24 July 2021) police were patrolling Nelson Bay Road at Williamtown after receiving information from the public about...
Politicians love to block anyone on Facebook whose ideas and values are not the same as their own. They want to surround themselves in a bubble of confirmation bias. The leader of the labor opposition, Chris Minns, has been running a positive campaign with the...
Gladys Berejiklian and her Cabinet ministers, health officials that stand before the cameras every day at 11am dribbling the same nonsense every day, with the same message every day, infringing on your birth rights, your freedoms, turning Australians against Australians, LGAs against LGAs, neighbours against...
A man has died following a fatal shooting at Newcastle today. About 12.45pm (Thursday 22 July 2021), emergency services were called to a unit on Darby St, Cooks Hill, following reports of shots fired. Upon arrival, police located a man inside the unit with a...
It seems like, every few minutes, there’s a new piece of Covid-19 information we must know about: new exposure sites, new cases, borders closing and opening, people breaching draconian laws risking fines and jail time for exercising their birth rights of freedom of speech and...
Macquarie College in Wallsend had a Covid scare today after a student was deemed a close contact of a covid positive case. Its believed the student visited a petrol station in Goulburn at the same time as a confirmed case did back on July 16th....
A man has died following a motorcycle crash in the Upper Hunter overnight. About 10.15pm (Tuesday 20 July 2021), emergency services were called to Old Scone Road and Macartney Street, Merriwa, after reports a Triumph motorcycle with a rider and a pillion passenger had left...
Almost one in five drivers allegedly caught with drugs in their system during blitz – Lake Macquarie
Almost one in five drivers allegedly caught with drugs in their system during blitz – Lake Macquarie
Almost one in five drivers returned positive results during a proactive drink and drug driving operation in Lake Macquarie yesterday. Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District undertook Operation Amrap between 7am and 5pm (Monday 19 July 2021) targeting drink and drug driving offences, along with...
Anyone who attended the following venue at the times listed is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result, and call 1800 943 553 unless they have already been contacted by NSW Health: Wallsend – Coles Express,...
A Turramurra man has been issued a hefty fine for breaching health orders, after seeking some peace and quiet in Hawks Nest. At 12.40am today (Saturday 17 July 2021), police spoke to a man who was asleep in the rear of a white Volkswagen Tiguan...
NSW recorded 111 new cases with 42 cases in the community for part or all of their infectious period. Unfortunately NSW also recorded 1 death. No new restrictions have been placed on Regional NSW. 3 LGA in southwest Sydney are now under strict stay at...
Covid-19 has made it way through the Hunter, with the first exposure site listed since the Delta outbreak. Anyone who attended the 7/11 at Thornton on Weakleys drive between 12:05pm and 12:11pm, Tueday 13th is considered a casual contact, must Isolate and until they return...
At 8.55pm on the 10 July 2021 a passer-by has contacted Police and Ambulance when they observed a 64-year-old male had impaled his left leg on a high metal picket fence whilst trying to gain entry into a property at Maitland. The male was freed...
Police remain at the scene of a serious head-on crash in the Hunter region this afternoon. Emergency services were called to Leggetts Drive, about 1km south of Pelaw Main, about 3.15pm (Thursday 15 July 2021), following reports a Toyota Corolla and a Ford Territory collided...