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They may have avoided setting one record….but they couldn’t escape another. On Wednesday night,  the Mariners drew their smallest ever crowd. Still, coach Mike Mulvey insists they’ve had a taste of victory, and they’re hungry for more.  

A local man has taken his love of backyard cricket to a whole new level, building and maintaining his own full-sized cricket ground. For the moment, it remains something of a hidden gem…but the word’s slowly getting out.  

Since it began in 2004, the Australian Seabird Rescue service has saved thousands of birds in trouble on the Central Coast. Its latest patient…a feisty male pelican, who’s once again flying free at The Entrance.  

Central Coast Council has recently installed new water tanks at high risk fire locations around the region. It comes as part of an initiative to help reduce turnaround times for fire crews in areas without access to town water.  

A bite from a male funnel web spider can be deadly, but since the development of anti-venom in 1981 there’ve been zero fatalities. Now a world-first project is being launched, to ensure enough of the life-saving serum is made.  

A fire has torn through Umina Mall on the Central Coast, destroying several shops. More than 60 firefighters were called in to extinguish the blaze….which is now being investigated by police.  

Learning CPR should be made compulsory across the nation – that’s the urgent call from first aid organisations. They say the number of Australians that know how to perform it, is well short of other nations, and our cardiac arrest survival rate is frightening.

In just three decades, Australia’s most famous icon, the koala, could be extinct. One little joey has become the face of an online campaign, raising awareness of the rapidly declining number of koalas left in the wild.

A man has lost his life and five people have been injured in a horrific head-on near Grafton. The crash closed the Summerland Way for more than six hours.

A crime scene has been established after human remains were found near Moree. The skeletal remains were discovered on the bank of the Mehi River on New Year’s Day. A search of the river bank in the immediate area began on Wednesday morning. The remains have been sent for forensic examination.