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A family has escaped injury, despite a large tree crushing their North Gosford home overnight. The incident comes days after part of the same tree fell – damaging another neighbouring property.  

The Liberal party is hoping its record on road funding, will be enough to win over Central Coast voters, come the March state election. The party highlighting millions of dollars worth of work, soon to commence.  

The new school year is officially underway, and plenty of children – and parents – are getting those first day jitters. None more so than the latest crop of Hunter kindergarten kids, ready to begin what could be 13 years of lessons.

It was set to be largest environment and tourism grant the region has ever received – but now funding for Winney Bay cliff-top walk has been withdrawn. Council’s decision to alter plans angering both the Member for Terrigal and local Indigenous representatives.  

Finding the perfect workout buddy can be challenging. Fortunately, Central Coast animal shelters have the perfect solution to help you stick to your New Year’s resolutions.    

In some more positive news for the Mariners…new signing and former Premier League player Jem Karacan has finally arrived on the Central Coast. The 28-year-old, who will play the remainder of season with the club… and already knows a few faces, having played with Kalifa Cisse and against assistant coach Nick Montgomery, overseas. “I was captain of Reading Football Club, captain of Bolton and the youth sides of Turkey, hopefully I’m a leader and hopefully I can show the lads on and off the pitch about being a good professional.” – Jem Karacan Karacan is expected to make his debut in Round 17, against Melbourne Victory. (AUDIO ONLY IN PARTS)  

Hundreds of homes in East Gosford are still without water, after a major main broke overnight. 30 households had to be evacuated, as crews struggled to shut off supply.

The state’s Minister for Transport visited the Central Coast today, pledging to elevate the standard of train stations in the region. The Berejiklian government is promising to install 11 lifts at five stations, to make life easier for commuters with disabilities.  

Depending on whether you like reptiles or not – the vision you’re about to see could be the stuff of nightmares. An extremely rare two-headed lizard has been handed in to keepers at the Australian Reptile Park. The baby blue tongue lizard was found by a member of the public – it has three eyes and two functioning mouths. It’s probably more common in reptiles to have joined heads then it ever would be in a mammal, but I have seen a couple primarily in snakes though, but this is definitely the first Eastern Blue Tongue with two heads, so when it turned up I got a bit of a shock. The lizard, named “Lucky” will now live out his reptile years at the wildlife sanctuary. (AUDIO ONLY IN PARTS)

While an appeal against the Wallarah 2 coal mine project remains before the courts…the community continues to debate the merits of the proposal. The federal government has thrown an additional spanner in the works, giving the mine a tick of approval.