The Latest Breaking News from Mark Speakman

More safe rooms attached to courts are being established to allow vulnerable witnesses across NSW to give evidence without fear or intimidation.

The NSW government says it is matter of life and death that coercive control is criminalised this year and it doesn’t want concerns from domestic violence advocates to cause delays.

Coercive control of intimate partners is nearer to becoming a crime in NSW as legislation to outlaw the abusive behaviour returns to parliament.

The NSW attorney-general will carefully monitor protest court cases after a climate activist who caused traffic chaos was granted a mental health diversion.

Evidence shows the ‘tough on crime’ tactic does not work. NSW has finally dipped its toe into taking a different approach

Premier reiterates opposition to the ‘bare minimum’ recommendation of scathing inquiry into the state’s drug laws, nearly three years after it reported

More than two years after the ice inquiry's report was handed down, the Perrottet government is running out of time to deliver its promised reforms before next year's state election.

Experts are bemoaning two and a half years of inaction from the NSW government since an inquiry into the use of the drug ice made more than 100 recommendations.

The endless cycle of the 'war on drugs'

Police say they target drug suppliers 'at all levels and in all areas of the community'.

Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of the murders of her children between 1989 and 1999 and has spent two decades in prison. She hopes to clear her name by attempting to prove her children died from a genetic mutation