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What's making news today? Captain Starlight brings the best medicine to sick kids in hospital with a $1m fundraising goal to keep up the good work, purple e-bikes and scooters come to a grinding halt in Lake Macquarie and the fate of thousands of jobs and two coal mines hangs on new Eraring contract.
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