Janine Watson

When a sheet metal worker who “tends to binge from time to time” blew into his buggered home breath tester, purchased from Repco after blowing high range a few years ago, it indicated he “was fine” to drive, a court has heard.

Coffs Harbour man David Hopwood has avoided jail time after plying a group of teen boys with alcohol and assaulting one of them under a blanket, telling him “you are so big”.

A Coffs Harbour childcare and education worker has been employed in the industry for years despite allegedly knowing about historic sex assault claims against him and, as police told the court, making two large payments to the complainant and expressing remorse in messages.

Aged care worker denies hindering female cop

A man and woman in their 20s have been granted bail after an alleged wild police chase through the streets of a northwest NSW town which left a dog dead and ended with a car, believed to be stolen, crashing into a fence.

Almost two months on from what police allege was a brutal bikie bashing on the Mid-North Coast, the alleged victim has woken from a coma with several metal plates in his head on the same day one of the co-accused applied for bail.

A property allegedly crammed with dope plants, meth, cannabis leaf and an arsenal of guns and ammo has been raided in the state’s south with a 61-year-old man granted bail.

The case of a Coffs Harbour man charged with multiple counts of failing to provide veterinarian care has been delayed in court.

Police have confirmed that they are yet to make any arrests in relation to the alleged assault of an elderly groundsman working at a Coffs Harbour caravan park who approached a group of e-bike riders over the weekend.

A house with reptiles in bedrooms; dogs and cats suffering neglect; guns and almost 1000 grams of dried cannabis inside is at the heart of a shocking case that returned to court this week.