Giselle Wakatama

NSW police are urging anyone with information about toddler Jordan Thompson's 2005 death to come forward as they increase the reward on offer.

A NSW inmate who bashed four prison guards will serve extra jail time, after a judge quashed his non-custodial term on appeal, calling it "an affront to the administration of justice".

High school teacher Karly Rae, 37, pleads guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage boy in the Hunter Valley region.

There are calls for a Senate inquiry into the suicide deaths of Australian doctors amid allegations of untenable rosters and payback for whistleblowers.

Thousands of NSW prison officers have walked off the job over the sentence handed to a prisoner who bashed four guards at Cessnock Correctional Complex.

An inquest finds a Sydney fisherman likely drowned after being pulled overboard by a large Mako shark during a game fishing competition near Newcastle.

Hunter Valley man James Anthony Cunneen has been sentenced to six years jail for covering up a murder after helping his friend to dump a woman's body.

Tabitha Acret says a proposed law in New South Wales means there will be a legacy for her daughter, who died at the hands of a domestic violence killer.

New South Wales horse trainer Dwayne Schmidt is sentenced to more than three years in jail for raping and impregnating a 13-year-old girl.

Hunter woman Lily Ridgeway pleads not guilty to manslaughter over the stabbing death of Jason Adams at Raymond Terrace in 2020, claiming she acted in self-defence.

Jailed bus driver Brett Button and the bus company that employed him have been added as defendants in a class action stemming from a crash that killed 10 people.

A Supreme Court judge has awarded NSW man Luke Moore $450,000 in damages after the disgraced police officer son of former senator Kristina Keneally falsified evidence about alleged death threats.

NSW man Joel G Whaley is granted bail after pleading not guilty to a number of charges related to threats he allegedly made on Facebook against a senior constable.

Prison officials confirm that one of Australia's most prolific paedophile priests, John Sidney Denham, has died at the age of 82.

A man who sexually abused a young girl in foster care is seeking to quash his conviction in the High Court.

Police praised bystanders for saving a 17-year-old girl being attacked by a large mixed-breed dog in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.

The 17-year-old suffered injuries to her head, neck and body and was rushed to hospital. Police destroyed the animal involved and an investigation is underway.

A Newcastle woman whose daughter was killed by her ex-boyfriend will meet the NSW premier next week in a push to introduce tougher sentencing for domestic abusers.

Newcastle man Jarrod Scifleet pleads guilty to possessing child abuse material, bestiality videos and illegal gel blasters, following a two-year investigation sparked by a tip-off from the federal police.

Media personality, musician, and comedian Isaac Compton will face a hearing next year in a Newcastle court after he was accused of the common assault of two women and allegedly sexually touching them.

A judges dismiss an appeal against the sentence handed to domestic violence murderer Tyrone Thompson, which was described by the Crown as "manifestly inadequate".

A wanding operation aimed at curbing knife crime is planned for a shopping precinct near Newcastle, in the wake of two stabbings on the same day, one of them deadly.

The body of a 77-year-old woman was found in the lounge room of the single-level unit at Bateau Bay on Sunday night.

The barristers in the appeal of three convicted gang rapists have argued witnesses were unreliable and questioned directions given to the jury by the presiding judge.

A court's heard a man charged over a fatal stabbing in a suburb of Newcastle has never been in custody and could be suffering from a mental health condition.