Janine Watson

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A father has been jailed for repeatedly driving with drugs in his system and leading police on a high speed chase ending in a crash on a busy Nambucca Heads street.

Well-known Port Macquarie motorbike rider Peter Ford is in the fight of his life after being hit by a car while riding home from work.

A Port Macquarie woman allegedly siphoned money from a building company she worked for and created phoney Bunnings and Office Works accounts - buying everything from tools and chairs to a mobile phone and headphones.

Police allege 50-year-old woman Kylie Van Acker was making and selling psychedelic drugs on a large scale at her Port Macquarie home.

MidCoast Council was formed in 2016 with the amalgamation of the former Taree, Great Lakes and Gloucester shires.

Hotel guests were forced to flee as a ferocious blaze tore through a hotel on the small Mid-North Coast town of Bellingen in the early hours of Tuesday.

A father-of-four who was “always” just “a phone call away” has been identified as the victim of an alleged murder with a bladed weapon in a suburban Coffs Harbour street.

A key witness has aired her grief with the family of a Macksville woman who died after injuring herself on a home visit and returning to the Riverside Gardens aged care facility in Nambucca Heads.

A seasonal farm worker accused of raping a teenage girl at a Coffs Coast beach has denied all charges and argues “we both agreed to do it on that night ”.