Wednesday, June 2, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter

NSW Labor leadership contender Chris Minns is promising there will be no recriminations against his opponent's camp should he win the top job. Former Hunter Surf Life Saving member Robert John Beavis will spend up to four more years in prison over historical child sex offences on two more girls then aged as young as 8. The Newcastle median house price has surged past $700,000 for the first time and the city's annual growth rate is outstripping rises in all state and territory capitals. Jack Johns, son of Knights legend Matthew, will make his Autumn started with a splash but ended with merely a trickle as Newcastle recorded one of its driest Mays in more than 60 years.