PROACTIVE CRIME UNIT WEST ARREST 23 YEAR OLD MALE FOLLOWING POLICE PURSUIT WYEE. About 10:00pm on Thursday 2 July, 2020 Police attached to the Lake Macquarie Proactive Crime Unit (West) were patrolling in the vicinity of Wyee Road, Morisset. Police saw a green Subaru Forrester...
NSW Health has been forced into screening people returning form Melbourne after thousands of people have returned to NSW from Melbourne over the past week. Gladys Berejiklian had no plans to close borders or screen people coming back from Melbourne as she firmly believes in...
Michael Johnsen MP, Member for Upper Hunter has announced that Dungog Shire will benefit from $4.4 Million in funding which will improve local roads and create jobs as part of the NSW Government’s $500 million Fixing Local Roads program, ensuring even more regional communities benefit,...
A man has been arrested after stand off with police near Newcastle. About 9.20am (Thursday 2 July 2020), officers from Newcastle City Police District were called to Warkworth Street, Maryland, following reports of a domestic dispute. Upon arrival, police were confronted by a man, armed...
A man has been charged after prohibited drugs and explosive devices were located at a home in the Hunter region yesterday. Officers attached to the Hunter Valley Police District Proactive Crime Team conducted a Firearms Prohibition Order (FPO) search at a home on Fifth Street,...
Strike Force Trawler detectives have charged a man from the Hunter Valley following an investigation into the alleged online grooming of a child.
Flight JQ474 has taken off from the centre of Melbournes covid-19 hotspot, the plane can hold a maximum of 180 passengers, and as of 10am this morning there was only 1 seat available. Jetstar does have a Covid-19 plan and says contracting Covid-19 in a...
A Lake Macquarie man will appear in court today charged by Strike Force Trawler detectives following an investigation into the alleged online grooming and procuring of a child. Last month, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crime Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit (CEIU) began...
Fire Crews were called to an early morning house fire on Alkira ave Cessnock this morning. Firefighters arrived to the house that was fully engulfed in flames, the house was fully furnished but Fire fighters quickly established that no one was home at the time....
Gladys Berejiklian has refused to close the NSW border to prevent people from Victoria entering NSW and potentially spreading Covid-19 from Victoria to NSW. We can reveal a Jetstar flight from Melbourne to Newcastle is set touch down today before the lock down is enforced...
A teenage boy has been charged following several alleged aggravated break and enter offences in the Hunter. In June 2020, officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police Proactive Crime Team commenced Operation Golding to investigate and respond to an increase in property-related crime in Maitland, Rutherford and...
Police are appealing for information after two men were stabbed during a home invasion at Hawks Nest overnight. About 10.30pm (Monday 30 June 2020), a 78-year-old man opened the door of his home on Booner Street and was confronted by three unknown men. The group...
The Covid-19 economic crisis is hitting the Hunter hard and fast with statistics from the Hunter Business Chamber show that 36,000 jobs were lost in the Hunter region in May and youth unemployment in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie area having skyrocketed to 26.8 per...
Key Points The man left the venue, then returned and refused to leave a licensed venue, police were called to remove the man. When police arrived the man begun swearing and throwing rocks at police The man attempted to encourage bystanders to assault police before...
A man has been charged with damaging a police vehicle after he allegedly kicked the door during an incident where officers were threatened with a knife earlier this week. Two men, aged 28 and 35, where charged after allegedly threatening officers with a knife during...
Fears of a second wave of Covid-19 in Victoria has sent Hunter residents into a toilet paper buying frenzy today. The shelves of Coles and Woolworths have been stripped bare from Newcastle to Cessnock this afternoon, leaving many people scratching their heads in disbelief. There...
Cessnock City Council welcomed a recent NSW Government announcement that will see a temporary Community Recovery Officer role established for the Cessnock Local Government Area (LGA). The role will be dedicated to supporting the community following the bush fires that hit the LGA last fire...
A man has been charged after allegedly threatening a police officer with a knife in Newcastle yesterday. Police will allege in court that about 2.10pm yesterday (Tuesday 23 June 2020), officers attached to Newcastle City Police District were patrolling Hamilton South when they were approached...
Key Points A man and woman arrested and charged Three officers assaulted OC spray deployed twice during the arrests. The man was refused bail and the woman was granted conditional bail A man and woman have been charged after allegedly assaulting three police officers in...
Key points Police investigate eight properties that were broken into in Hamilton and Merewether Three teens arrested and charged. All three teens were granted strict conditional bail. Newcastle City Police have made a breakthrough following investigations into eight break and enter offences that occurred in...