Friday, May 28, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter

The entire state of Victoria has entered seven-day lockdown after 12 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were detected in the 24-hours to Thursday morning.
Newcastle's unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in April, on par with pre-COVID levels, as job ads reached a new record high.
A new entertainment centre and indoor aquatic centre are the most needed facilities within Hunter Park, Newcastle's lord mayor has said, as she and her Cessnock counterpart call for funds to be allocated in the state budget to kickstart the planned Broadmeadow redevelopment.
The Newcastle Jets will no longer play premiers City in Melbourne on Saturday with the fixture postponed because of Victoria's latest COVID-19 lockdown.
First National Newcastle City's Tom Lemke has described the $1.4 million auction sale of a Carrington property as "monumental" for the suburb.