Janine Watson

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 ”.

A Mid-North Coast DJ on the child protection register for life has allegedly breached reporting conditions - creating social media and email accounts in fake names and having prohibited weapons including a baton.

A Coffs Coast man on the child protection register has admitted to having almost 150 images depicting child abuse.

Cops who raided the home of a Busways mechanic and found a cash stash of $44,000 were told it was the man’s “life-savings” from when he was a little boy - but his piggy bank story soon came unstuck when officers dug deeper.

The Coffs Coast community is rallying around a local surfer who suffered a catastrophic heart attack at the beach as he battles through intensive care.

A woman has pleaded guilty to defrauding a well-known northern NSW timber company out of more than $450,000 by creating a phoney log supply company and siphoning off payments.

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.

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.