At 10.30pm Sunday 23/2 police stopped a red Mercedes in Picton Close Cessnock after the vehicle sped off from Alkira Avenue. The 32-year-old Cessnock male driver then attempted to evade police by entering a front yard of a random home in Picton Close where he...
Recent changes by the Government has reclassified parts of the Hunter from being rural to metropolitan meaning the incentive for bulk billing children and concessions holders has drastically dropped from $9.65 down to $6.40 and many doctors are now opting to charge privately leaving the...
Lawyers representing communities affect PFAS contamination have announced they reach an agreement with the Department Of Defence. Class Actions Practice Leader Joshua Aylward said the positive result, reached overnight during formal negotiations between the parties, would come as a relief to affected residents. “The people of Oakey...
At about 6.20am on Monday 24 February 2020 a cyclist was hit by the near side mirror of a Grey / Blue Hyundai I30 or Accent (similar to vehicle pictured) on Turton Road near the intersection of Christo Road, Waratah. Police are seeking the driver...
Cessnock City Council has earmarked $100k of the $1 Million of the bushfire disaster recovery package to promote their new “Open For Business” campaign to attract visitors back to the Hunter Valley. I am looking forward to seeing how they use this money as there...
Please use caution if your traveling on Native Dog Hill RD as yet another car has been touched this one has been left in the middle of the road on a blind corner. Hopefully this will moved and disposed off and not just left in...
Police will continue searching bushland on the Central Coast this morning after an 82-year-old man went missing from his Yarramalong property yesterday. Patrick Ryan, who suffers dementia, left his home on Yarramalong Road about 5.30pm (Wednesday 26 February 2020), to go for a walk. When...
Police were called to a Caravan park on the Central Coast in the early hours of Sunday morning after receiving reports of a shooting. When Police arrived everyone involved had the left the scene including two men with gunshot wounds, police set up a crime...
Just in the Mandarin Chinese Restaurant at Belmont is on fire, NSW Fire And Rescue and Police are on Sence and bringing the blaze under control. No reports of injuries as yet, we will keep you updated when we get more news about this situation.
Newcastle City Police are trying to identify owners for some jewellery that was seized yesterday from a couple that were arrested for numerous stealing and break and enter offences. The offences were in the Newcastle, Cooks Hill and Merewether areas during February. If you can...
Residents of the Hunter and Central Coast will see a more visible police presence on their streets from this month, with the commencement of a newly formed high-visibility police unit. In January 2019, the NSW Government announced 100 new high-visibility officers to be stationed at...
This motorbike was stolen from Tighes Hills Tafe yesterday around between 12pm and 1pm the rego details are LOWE16 Please contact Newcastle Police or Facebook page if you have seen this bike out and about. It was last seen on the train tracks Waratah so...
Police have revealed that a teenager from Wangi caught with 75 MDMA pills at the Good Life/Lost City Music Festival was strip search along with 12 other teenagers including a 14-year-old teenage girl. Whilst it does seem to be within the law do so, it’s...
MIISSING PERSON ALERT Tuggerah Lakes Police District are appealing for public assistance to help locate a missing person. Ray WITCHAM, 12 old, was last seen about 5.30pm Thursday 20 February, 2020, leaving his home at San Remo. Police and family have serious concerns for his...
Police were called to Alkira Ave in Cessnock after reports of man waving a black handle kitchen knife whilst walking down the street, when police arrived they quickly located the man and conducted a search we’re they found a small amount of cannabis on his...
At 9.00pm on Saturday 22/2 police were called to a home in Brown Street Cessnock where a home-made incendiary device was thrown at the home’s water heater setting fire to the water heater and side of the home. Residents were able to extinguish the fire...
A Ford Ranger was stolen from a Cessnock House over night, it appears they gained entry to the house and took off with keys to the Ford Ranger and other keys to other vehicles at that property, but only took the Ford Ranger Ford Ranger...
Emergency services were called to Great North Road, Bucketty (40km north-west of Somersby), about 4.30pm (Sunday 23 February 2020), responding to reports of a crash involving a motorcycle and SUV. Officers from Hunter Valley Police District were told a man was riding north and a...
Quorrobolong Brigade was called to a house fire in Quorrobolong just before 11am on the 21th of February after neighbour called triple 000 after noticing smoke from his neighbour’s house, Cessnock Fire and Rescue crew Mulbring crew and Quorrobolong RFS all responded to incident Thankfully...
Newcastle jets hosted the Melbourne Victory, the Jets were outclassed from the beginning till the end with the Vctory scoring 7 unanswered goals.