Police have charged a man for crashing a stolen car with his wife and child on board during a high speed pursuit on the Central Coast.
 
The man allegedly led police on a high speed chase along the streets of Kariong on Friday night before crashing his Holden Commodore into a tree.

The 38-year-old man ran from the scene, leaving his wife and 11-year-old son in the car.

The threat of a tsunami hitting the east coast of Australia has abated however warnings to stay out of the water remain in place.

Rising seas have been recorded in Norfolk Island, Southport in Tasmania and now Port Kembla in the New South Wales Illawarra, the Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Centre (JATWC) reports.

Police have charged a woman with the stabbing murder of a man overnight at Wamberal.
 
Shortly after 12.15am today, police from the Brisbane Water Local Area Command and ambulance paramedics were called to a unit in Bundara Avenue.

Police allegedly located the body of a 27-year-old man lying on the floor of the lounge room with a stab wound to the chest.

Central Coast mother Allyson McConnell (nee Meager) has been charged with murdering her two young sons after their bodies were found dead in the bathtub of their Canadian home earlier this month.

Mrs McConnell, 31, from Gosford, was involved in a bitter custody dispute with her Canadian husband, Curtis McConnell.