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EAST OF MORISSET - A 32-year-old woman has been charged after a house was destroyed by fire on Mooranga Road in Mirrabooka about 10.40pm last night. Police said officers from Lake Macquarie Police District arrested the woman at the scene and took her to Toronto Police Station, where she was charged with damage property by fire/explosion more than $15,000. The sole occupant was able to evacuate and was not injured, […]

newy.com.au – A 36-year-old woman has been charged with manslaughter after the death of a baby boy during a home birth in Wallsend, near Newcastle, last year. Police allege the woman, who was working as a privately practising midwife, failed to act on signs of medical complications during the birth on 2 October 2024, despite repeated requests from the mother to be taken to hospital. Two days later, on 4 […]

newy.com.au – A body believed to be that of missing woman Meilee Chen has been discovered during a police search in Birmingham Gardens, more than three months after she was last seen in Newcastle. Ms Chen, aged 68, was reported missing after she failed to return home following her last confirmed sighting on 3 May 2025, captured on CCTV at a shopping centre. Prior to that, she had also been […]

newy.com.au – A Hunter Valley man has been arrested and charged over a series of alleged domestic violence offences in the Sydney suburb of Gregory Hills. Police say the charges follow an investigation by the Hunter Domestic Violence High Risk Offender Team and Camden Police Area Command. Authorities allege that on 27 July 2025, the man pushed a woman known to him into a wall and threatened her with a […]

 Article Updated at 9:04am with information from NSW Police media statement newy.com.au – A 35-year-old man has been arrested following an alleged threat incident at a supermarket in Jesmond late on Tuesday, 5 August 2025. Police from Newcastle City Police District were called to the scene around 10pm after reports that the man had allegedly made threats towards staff members. When officers arrived, they attempted to engage with the […]

Updated 9:48pm 5/8/2025 newy.com.au – A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of a 14-year-old girl at a home in Edgeworth, Lake Macquarie on the night of 4 August 2025. Emergency services were called to Euston Close about 10.20pm after a report of a stabbing. Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District found the 14-year-old with a wound to her torso. She was treated at the […]

newy.com.au – A search is underway for a woman believed to have been swept away by floodwaters north of Cessnock on Saturday evening, 2 August 2025. Emergency services were called to Black Creek at Old North Road in Rothbury around 7.50pm after reports that a vehicle had become stuck while attempting to drive through rising water. Police from the Hunter Valley Police District were told that the driver of a […]

newy.com.au – A wedding minibus carrying six people, including the groom and his groomsmen, crashed down an embankment near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley late Wednesday morning, 30 July 2025, leaving two men seriously injured. The crash occurred around 10:30am on Mount View Road near the turn-off to Tallavera Grove. Emergency services responded after the Toyota HiAce, operated by Cessnock & Branxton Taxis, veered off the unsealed road and rolled […]