Monday, May 17, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter

LABOR has committed to returning $100 million a year in royalties from coal back to mining-affected communities. THE focus in the fight against domestic violence needs to shift towards the rehabilitation of perpetrators according to a Newcastle-based lawyer and researcher. A MAN has died after his motorbike collided with a ute in the Hunter Valley on Saturday. In sport and things have turned from bad to worse for Newcastle's football flagships, the Newcastle Knights and the Jets. And two of the John Hunter Children's Hospital Kids Club volunteers have bravely chopped off their locks to raise money for a new bedside ultrasound machine.