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Jamahl Ali is Toronto Public's School Captain 2024.

Over the years, Jamahl Ali has thrived with support from his teachers, family and therapists. Now this boy with "a very kind heart" is leading his peers at Toronto Public School.

A region key to Australia's energy supply is begging for clarity on its future but the two major parties don't want to talk about it.

The Hunter has recorded its lowest number of COVID cases this month and more than 75 per cent of the population is now fully vaccinated.

The region is posting some the highest numbers in NSW and business owners, politicians and health officials are reminding people that we're not out of the woods just yet.

Muswellbrook, which has just recorded its first coronavirus case this year, has one of the lowest vaccination rates in NSW.

Newcastle public health officials say Sydney interlopers caused the Hunter region's deepening COVID crisis as Gladys Berejiklian confirms the region will stay in lockdown for another week.

The impacts of racism and the challenges of remote living can mean Indigenous kids end up attending less early childhood education than their non-Indigenous peers. Changing that could help close the gap — but significant barriers remain.

Trixie the ferret was clinically dead for 20 minutes after she became trapped in the toilet. But thanks to the cool head of a New South Wales mum (and a hair dryer), Trixie is expected to make a full recovery.

MORNING BRIEFING: Police have arrested 38 people following a climate change protest on Monday, and there have been more than 240 major crashes on the roads over the long weekend.

Oliver Scales-Copeland, who is accused of stabbing two police officers at a service station north of Sydney yesterday, represents himself in court and becomes emotional when his bail application is refused.

A court has heard Border Force and NSW and federal police officers formed a human chain to unload hundreds of bricks of cocaine from a catamaran linked to an international drug syndicate.

Two men on trial over a 700kg cocaine importation racket used encrypted mobile phones to help arrange for the drugs to be sailed from Tahiti to Australia, a court hears.

An independent investigative commission reviews allegations of police brutality against an Aboriginal man at a station south of Newcastle in New South Wales.

A NSW court has heard Australia United Party Senator Brian Burston and his wife are "in fear" of Pauline Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby.

A 28-year-old Indigenous man has told the ABC he was "terrified" when he was allegedly repeatedly bashed by police at a New South Wales police station on Australia Day last year.

Two men have been handed lengthy prison sentences for their involvement in bringing 750 kilograms of cocaine into NSW on a yacht in November 2017.

A major exhibition of landscapes by the late Australian painter will open in Sydney followed by a national tour taking in regional Australia.

A man pleads guilty to being part of a drug importation racket after police seized 700 kilograms of cocaine from a yacht south of Newcastle.

Police intercept half a tonne of cocaine hidden in the hull of a yacht in Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle, and charge three men.

A man found injured after a single-vehicle accident is charged with murder after allegedly giving information to paramedics that leads to the discovery of a woman's body.

A pilot program in Lake Macquarie helps people who cannot afford a lawyer get legal advice for traffic matters.

A guitar making school in Lake Macquarie is giving musicians a fresh outlet to explore their passion.

A community guitar-making school in Lake Macquarie is giving musicians a fresh outlet to explore their passion.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Toronto to celebrate NAIDOC Week.