Emma Simkin

Ray Hildridge had quadruple bypass surgery in 1982 when renowned heart surgeon Victor Chang was one of few doing the procedure. His survival at 78 has set a world record.

A Central Coast councillor and her husband are charged with assault over a confrontation about erosion on Wamberal Beach. 

Police on the NSW Central Coast arrived at an address to find a man standing in the middle of the road armed with a knife. They deployed a taser but the man got into his car and allegedly rammed a patrol vehicle.

Inspired by her mum, Portia Roberts took up dragon boating at the age of 12. Now she and her mother are representing Australia in the sport.

Residents of Wamberal Beach on the NSW Central Coast, where homes partially collapsed during savage weather in 2020, say work to mitigate erosion should have started months ago.

The Central Coast Mariners women's team has secured a grand final berth in its second year back in the A-League.

Darkinjung was considered an endangered Aboriginal language, but community elders on the NSW Central Coast hope a new program for preschool students will change that.

The NSW electorate of Robertson has maintained its status as the nation's longest-surviving bellwether seat.

All southbound lanes on the M1 motorway has reopened after a massive effort from emergency crews to remove metal shards spilled onto the road which damaged hundreds of vehicles early this morning.

Three scent-detection dogs help to locate an elusive orchid that is "almost impossible to find with the naked eye", as part of efforts to protect the plant.

Housing affordability weighs heavily on voters in a NSW Central Coast seat that has been won by the party that goes on to form government at every election since 1983.

Expectant mothers on the NSW Central Coast now have to travel to Sydney or Newcastle to birth in a private hospital after the region's only private maternity ward shut down.

A wildlife park owner in New South Wales faced losing a much-loved goat called Gonkey or paying $3,000 for antivenom, after it was bitten by a red-bellied black snake.

A bowling club on the NSW Central Coast fights for survival as high-rise developments pop up around it, and members are devastated by the prospect of losing their greens.

Police allege gas cylinders were ignited and caused fires in two legal practices, including a Legal Aid NSW office in Gosford CBD.

NSW Police are looking for two men who allegedly stabbed a 42-year-old man in the stomach during a suspected road rage incident on the Central Coast.

A Central Coast landowner is awarded significant damages after petroleum and diesel from a neighbouring service station contaminates his property.

Police are appealing for information after a suspicious fire at a new tobacco shop in Ettalong, which came just a day after the same business was broken into and vandalised.

Gosford's skyline is filled with cranes and rising buildings. But is the city ready for forecast exponential growth as the construction industry struggles to keep up with demand?

Central Coast surfer Josh Roden had no idea who he was rescuing when he pulled former Liberal Party deputy leader Bruce Baird from the water last weekend — simple instinct kicked in.

39-year-old Danny Vukovic announces he is stepping down as a player after a career of more than 20 years and will be joining the club's coaching team as a goalkeepers' coach. 

The atmosphere on the NSW Central Coast is "electric" ahead of the region's first-ever home A-League men's grand final between the Mariners and the Melbourne Victory tonight.

Parents and students from an all-girls Catholic college on the NSW Central Coast want conservative American author and chastity promoter Jason Evert's planned talk this week cancelled, with a petition overnight amassing 700 signatures. 

There are renewed calls to halt a shark netting program as data reveals the toll meshing is taking on endangered and "non-target" species.