Thursday, June 3, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter

Newcastle's landmark live music pub, the Cambridge Hotel, is poised to sell to an undisclosed buyer. Community and environment groups in the Lower Hunter have launched a campaign and petition against the Morrison government's proposed gas-powered power plant at Kurri Kurri. Nurses at Belmont Hospital and the Mental Health Centre at Waratah have voted to walk out for 24 hours to protest what they say is unsafe staffing levels and a breach of their wage agreement with the NSW government. Luckless Newcastle Knights have been rocked by another major injury blow with Tyson Frizell facing ankle surgery that has ruled the back-rower out of the State of Origin series and could sideline him for up to eight weeks. Last Thursday was a beautiful brisk sunny day for a group of creative young Novocastrians to break bread together on the corner of Bolton and King Street.