Giselle Wakatama

A 22-year-old man has died after suffering stab wounds in Newcastle overnight. 

LN has spent 10 days giving evidence and on her final day in the witness box she has told jurors "it's not an act".

The plane was forced to circle above Newcastle Airport for several hours before its pilot made a "textbook" emergency landing earlier this year. The pilot and two passengers walked away unhurt. 

A woman with dissociative identity disorder has almost thrown up in the witness box, while being cross-examined about alleged child sexual abuse by her father.

SN has pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing two of his children, including LN, who lives with dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

The woman who is giving evidence in the trial of her father has described her diagnosed dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

Marine Rescue, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority and multiple helicopters were involved in the search until a recreational fisherman happened across the missing man a day after he vanished from his ship.

A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder has switched identities in the witness box to give evidence about alleged child sexual abuse at the hands of her father.

The woman, diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, has been giving evidence in Newcastle during the child sexual abuse trial of her father SN, who has pleaded not guilty to 26 offences.

An alleged victim of child sex abuse has in an Australian first given evidence as different identities during a trial.

A court has heard a woman created multiple personalities to survive alleged child sexual abuse.

A jury has rejected a woman's evidence that she was pinned against an alleyway wall and sexually assaulted.

Raymond George Brownlowe is facing five charges and has been remanded in custody over the alleged kidnapping on August 23. 

Jack Milner, 21, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman near a bar in the NSW city in 2022.

Former Labor minister Ian Macdonald has alleged a "miscarriage of justice" in an appeal against his prison sentence for corruptly awarding a mining licence in the NSW Hunter Valley. 

After almost four years, a Supreme Court judge has ended a legal fight over the remains of the First Nations woman, whose family argued she had wanted to be cremated, not buried.

This weekend a convoy travelled from Narrabri, via the Upper Hunter to a rally in Newcastle, opposing Santos' $3.6 billion gas developments in the Pilliga in northern New South Wales.

Sentencing for a man who pleaded guilty to smuggling in Brazilian divers to retrieve a cocaine stash in Newcastle will be pushed back as a judge orders a contested facts hearing.

For the first time in NSW the Catholic Church has been found to be directly and vicariously liable for a man's abuse by a priest in the 1960s.

Steven Galcsik, 47, has been refused bail over the alleged domestic violence murder of his wife, Natalie, on Friday night at their bed and breakfast property at Pokolbin.

Brett Edward Sorby is sentenced to a maximum of 13 years' jail for his offending, which his victim described as "evil", saying she was ready to "give back the shame".

Jurors are discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of Cecil Patrick Kennedy, who was accused of killing a toddler nearly two decades ago.

Brett Andrew Button was behind the wheel of a bus returning from a wedding when it flipped on a roundabout, killing 10 passengers and injuring 25 others.

After testimony from 40 family members and survivors detailing how his actions had affected them, bus driver Brett Button has spoken in court about the crash that killed 10 and injured 25 others.

Families have told a sentencing hearing for a bus driver who caused a fatal crash in the NSW Hunter Valley that their lives have been "shattered".