Jasmine Kassis

Dec 27, 2024 | abc.net.au | Romy Stephens |Jasmine Kassis

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the name and image of a person who has died. Emergency services are searching for a man presumed missing in the ocean off the New South Wales North Coast since Thursday. Friends of the man, who is understood to be 20, contacted authorities last night after finding clothes believed to belong to him on Emerald Beach, north of Coffs Harbour. A multi-agency search began this morning.

Dec 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jasmine Kassis

A man is being treated in hospital after police shot him on the New South Wales North Coast. Police were called to McKittrick Park, a popular sporting field in Grafton, at about 6:30am after reports of a concern for welfare Police alleged the man approached officers with a knife before he was shot. He was flown to Gold Coast University Hospital in a serious but stable condition. The police officers were uninjured.

Dec 3, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jasmine Kassis

Scottish-born Margaret Hamill, 81, moved to Australia in 1969 and worked in IT for multiple government departments in Canberra. But for the past decade, she has lived in a van. After retirement, she found herself unable to afford a permanent home. But that will change next week when she and 22 other women move into a new block of units in Bellingen, on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. "I can't wait to sit on the beautiful deck and look at the mountains," Ms Hamill said.

Oct 26, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jasmine Kassis

Sheri Guthrie is a seven-minute drive from her local airport but says she cannot afford to use it. In the past, the Coffs Harbour woman would regularly fly from the NSW mid-north coast down to Melbourne for work and to visit her partner's family. "I remember paying $50 for a one-way ticket from Coffs to Melbourne a few years ago" she said. The former frequent flyer said return airfares to Melbourne can now cost up to $900. "We just can't afford to fly out of Coffs anymore," she said.

Oct 20, 2024 | abc.net.au | Jasmine Kassis

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and images of people who have died. Homicide detectives have embedded themselves in the community of Bowraville on the NSW Mid North Coast in the hopes of finding answers about the historical murders of three First Nations children.  Between September 1990 and January 1991, Evelyn Greenup, 4, Clinton Speedy-Duroux and Colleen Walker, both 16, went missing from the Bowraville.