Police issue arrest warrant over alleged murder of Brisbane carer
By Eden Gillespie and Claire Simmonds
Velvet Pesu was found dead at a house in Logan on Monday while police were conducting a welfare check.
#ClaireSimmonds
NSW SES to allow people to volunteer for a day when disaster strikes
By Claire Simmonds
Experts say volunteering is not in decline, but it is becoming more spontaneous. The NSW disaster agency is moving to embrace this after seven women mobilised 1,200 people to volunteer for a day in record-breaking floods.
Samoan farm worker sentenced to eight years' jail for rape of teenage girl
By Claire Simmonds
Samoan national Agaalofa Agaalofa, 27, is jailed for raping a 17-year-old girl on a beach on the NSW mid north coast in 2023.
Man found guilty of raping 76yo woman at aged care facility
By Claire Simmonds
Judge Michael McHugh finds Hayden Carl Skinner guilty of sexually assaulting a woman after breaking into a Coffs Harbour aged care facility.
Man accused of raping aged care resident tells court of break-in
By Claire Simmonds
Hayden Carl Skinner tells the District Court in Coffs Harbour that the open doors of the facility inspired a "spur of the moment" break-in to settle a drug debt.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-08/coffs-harbour-aged-care-home-sexual-assault-trial/106114170
Trial told nursing home resident allegedly assaulted in care has died
By Claire Simmonds
A 76-year-old woman who reported a sexual assault in a break-in at her nursing home has since died of unrelated causes as the trial of the man accused, Hayden Carl Skinner, began today in Coffs Harbour.
Shark attack highlights need for remote first aid kits, drone surveillance
By Claire Simmonds, Emma Siossian, and Sophia McCaughan
A makeshift tourniquet may have made the difference between a shark attack on the NSW Mid North Coast this week claiming one life not two. The attack has put a spotlight on how fatalities may be prevented.
#SharkAttacks #Animals #ClaireSimmonds #EmmaSiossian # #SophiaMcCaughan
Global network of shark attack survivors connects after latest incident
By Claire Simmonds
Shark attack survivors rally after a bull shark kills a woman and injures a man on the NSW mid north coast, warning of a nasty online backlash.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/shark-attack-survivors-rally-nsw-fatal-incident/106075238
Indian Sikh communities celebrate a new Nationals leader
By Claire Simmonds and Charles Rushforth
Gurmesh Singh's election as the new leader of the NSW Nationals is being hailed as great news for Indian Sikh communities across the state.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/gurmesh-singh-elected-nsw-nationals-leader/106021864
#PoliticalLeadership #StateandTerritoryParliament #Multiculturalism #ClaireSimmonds #CharlesRushforth
Price of Australian beef unlikely to change as Trump ends tariffs
By Kallee Buchanan, Megan Hughes, and Claire Simmonds
Shoppers at home and abroad are unlikely to see any immediate change in the price of Australian beef as tariffs that did little to curb demand in the first place are lifted.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/beef-producers-welcome-end-of-tariffs/106018228
#Tariffs #WorldPolitics #BeefCattleFarming #Trade #KalleeBuchanan #MeganHughes # #ClaireSimmonds
Two in hospital after allegedly being run over in road-rage incident
By Claire Simmonds and Emma Siossian
Two men are in hospital with serious injuries after an alleged road-rage incident near Forster on the NSW Mid North Coast. A teenager travelling with the men was also injured when he tried to help.
Fears Herons Creek may become 'ghost town' due to new koala park
By Claire Simmonds and Sophia McCaughan
A third of Herons Creekâs population on the NSW mid north coast faces possible redundancy as the timber mill struggles to survive the logging moratorium to create the Great Koala National Park.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/job-losses-in-timber-industry-to-create-koala-park/106004814
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #ClaireSimmonds #SophiaMcCaughan
Estimated koala numbers triple, but advocates dispute CSIRO's figures
By Claire Simmonds
Koala advocates and logging supporters have seized on the release of data showing koala population estimates tripled in the past three years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-05/csiro-koala-monitoring-population-estimate-triples/105958844
Police search for evidence after hit and run kills former cop
By Charles Rushforth and Claire Simmonds
A former police officer has been killed in a hit and run while walking her dogs in Ulmarra on the New South Wales north coast.
#Police #RoadAccidentsandIncidents #CharlesRushforth #ClaireSimmonds
Residents told it is 'time to leave' as winds fan bushfires in NSW
By Claire Simmonds, Cath Adams, and Emma Rennie
The NSW Rural Fire Service has warned residents in parts of northern NSW to leave their homes if they are not prepared to defend against an out-of-control bushfire which has started amid hot and windy conditions.
Police divers complete 'gaps' in 1990 search for murdered teen
By Claire Simmonds
A search is underway on NSW Mid North Coast for the remains of Colleen Walker-Craig, who went missing within months of two other children in Bowraville.
Dolphin calf rescued after spending weeks tangled in fishing line
By Emma Siossian, Claire Simmonds, and Marina Trajkovich
Marine rescuers issue an urgent plea for people to responsibly dispose of fishing gear after freeing a dolphin calf from a fishing line.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/dolphin-calf-rescued-from-fishing-line-at-forster/105884112
#Animals #Conservation #Oceans #EmmaSiossian #ClaireSimmonds # #MarinaTrajkovich
Humpback whales 'in mating pursuit' spotted in large, speedy pod
By Claire Simmonds
A drone photographer captures vision of a tightly packed pod of 11 humpback whales heading south in a race to mate off the NSW mid-north coast.
More than a dozen buildings threatened by bushfire on NSW north coast
By Toby Hemmings and Claire Simmonds
A day into the bushfire season, a blaze threatening more than a dozen buildings in the Clarence Valley has been downgraded after escalating to an emergency level.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-02/coutts-crossing-bushfire-emergency-nsw-north-coast/105845190
Missing sailors towed to shore after two days adrift off northern NSW coast
By Claire Simmonds and Toby Hemmings
Two men have been rescued with their catamaran after being adrift for two days following an engine failure off the northern NSW coast.
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