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Debra Campbell was just 21 years old when she disappeared from her home in Melbourne on February 25, 1984.

NSW Police were called to a fast-food restaurant on King Street when the 23-year-old suffering from serious burns on his body sought help at 3.20pm.

One of his friends has also begun fundraising for a medical evacuation helicopter from Denpasar to Australia in an effort to "save his life".

Police were called to a block of units in Stockton on Thursday, September 14 after reports Krista Kach was allegedly threatening a real estate agent with an axe after she had been served an eviction notice.

A convicted criminal who was accidentally released from prison has been arrested while drinking a cocktail near Newcastle.

During the investigation, a number of search warrants have been carried out, with items including guns seized for forensic examination.

Harry McWilliam, 20, loved theatre, football, family and friends.

Emergency services went to the work it next to the hospital on Jacaranda Drive in New Lambton Heights after reports the man was trapped.

After targeting ports in Brisbane and Melbourne yesterday, the group appears to be focused on Port of Newcastle today, the largest coal port in the world.

CCTV footage has captured the man - also armed with what appears to be a machete or butcher's cleaver - storming the Mayfield store before making demands to a female staffer.

Coordinated protests have blocked key bridges and roads across New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.

Brett Button is facing a string of 'very serious' charges after the bus he was allegedly driving crashed in the Hunter Valley, killing 10 people.

Mitchell Gaffney and Maddy Edsell chose the beautiful Wandin Estate as the venue for their wedding day.

Pictures posted online show grassed areas in Newcastle covered in snow-white hail, with some residents sharing images of golf ball-sized hailstones.

The woman Jarryd Hayne sexually assaulted says she is living a never ending nightmare almost five years later as he awaits a jail sentence.

Most people are looking forward to retirement, but not this Newcastle man.

A Lake Macquarie boy is being praised for taking a stand against racial abuse, after coming to the aid of a distraught bus driver.

Emergency services were called to the Broadmeadow train station after a 28-year-old had allegedly been stabbed in his stomach about 10.15am yesterday.

A housing crisis in the NSW Hunter Region is becoming more pronounced with tenants forced to reckon with major rent hikes.

Tributes poured in after his son, Tim Olsen, revealed he had died on Tuesday night, surrounded by loved ones and family.

Police were called to a home in Wickham, in the harbourside city's CBD, to investigate a theft when they were "threatened" by a man armed with a knife".

It has been almost two decades since Newcastle woman Roslyn Reay was found stabbed to death in her home.

A second sinkhole has opened in a Newcastle suburb just three days after the first forced residents out of their homes.

The 66-year-old admits she was caught off-guard when she received a message from an unknown number, with the sender claiming to be her daughter.

The friend of a woman former NRL player Jarryd Hayne is accused of sexually assaulting told her "that's rape" after reading a message about their interaction.

Paramedics and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter are responding to the incident in Cooranbong, west of Morisset off the Sydney-Newcastle Freeway just before 11am.

Ex-NRL player Jarryd Hayne allegedly cleaned blood from his hands and mouth before hopping in a waiting taxi and leaving the home of a woman he sexually assaulted, a court has heard.

Jordyn Bateman's low came while collecting empty cans for 10 cents a pop so he could go and play the pokies.

A man has been charged with animal cruelty and refused bail after allegedly hurling an eight-week-old puppy against a wall.

Tre Rudolph has been sentenced to a minimum six years behind bars after it was found he shook the three-month-old "out of frustration".

A Central Coast man is on trial in Newcastle charged with sexually assaulting a woman he met on a dating app.

Two social housing tenants say they're concerned for their health, due to a mould infestation in their Newcastle apartment.

Police believe it was an anti-Semitic hate crime.

The 25-year-old, known to many in the area as "Donnie", was shot in a home on Traders Way, in Heddon Greta, 20km east of Cessnock bout 11pm on December 27.

The first flight from new airline Bonza has taken off, marking a new chapter in Australian aviation history.

The former NRL star was released from jail in February last year after the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal quashed his convictions and ordered a retrial.

A New South Wales Police crime squad being expanded in a bid to crack down on organised crime networks and bikie gangs in regional areas.

Two New South Wales drivers have been caught performing dangerous maneuvers on some of the busiest roads in the state.

Central Coast bride-to-be Emily Faulks and her fiance Jacob Mosley had set their wedding date for March 25, 2023, the anniversary of the day they met.

Megamania opened at Warners Bay near Newcastle in September 1997, the same weekend the Knights won the ARL grand final.

A woman has been charged in relation to her alleged involvement in the death of a 54-year-old in Newcastle last year.

A young woman has spoken out, after her drink was allegedly spiked at a Hunter nightclub.

The Lake Macquarie local's life was tragically cut short last Friday, after she was killed in a workplace accident at Jesmond Woolworths.

Emergency services responded to reports a staff member had been injured at the supermarket on Blue Gum Road, about 7.30am today.

Former Newcastle Knights player Marc Glanville had cleaned up while moving house and threw several bags over the fence of a closed Salvation Army store.

The impact of the crash caused the car to split in half.

A 22-year old Newcastle man who raped a woman at knifepoint in her home has said he does not know what made him do what he did.

A distraught Newcastle widower has questioned why Optus hung on to his deceased wife's personal information for years, leading to her details being stolen by hackers.

After nine hours of deliberations, a jury found Maddison Hickson not guilty of murdering her father.

Come Sunday, Sue Bish will be forced to say goodbye to the hives in her backyard at North Lambton in Newcastle.