A 23-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a police officer in the New South Wales Hunter Valley has been granted bail, drawing the ire of the police community. 

Jordan Michaela Holland is the second midwife charged with manslaughter over the death of a baby after a failed homebirth in Newcastle.

Malek Alhmedai's hire car had $4 million stashed inside, with the money linked to illegal tobacco sales.

After travelling more than 2,000 kilometres across four separate hospitals, Phillip Norris says staff shortages in hospitals "needs to change".

An owner says she has "no regrets" after announcing that the first filly from champion race mare Winx will never race.

The New South Wales energy minister has met with disgruntled landowners affected by the New England Renewable Energy Zone.

There are more than 120,000 big freight trucks on the nation's freight routes, and they consume half of the diesel used in Australia.

One energy company is claiming that electric prime movers are far cheaper to run, can go full speed up hill and travel 480kms on a single charge, but a forestry company that trialled electric trucks has stopped using them, saying they are unviable.