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Wednesday March 17 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 16, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.1 MBPolice say a man who was in custody and being questioned yesterday over the suspicious death of a teenager at Lake Macquarie knew the boy. A jury has heard, Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne felt entitled to have sex with the woman who texted him but changed her mind after “promising him sex”. The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has offered to help Maitland Hospital "address the standards" that saw its training accreditation for future physicians withdrawn late last year. Initial fears K...
Tuesday March 16 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 15, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.97 MBPort Stephens MP Kate Washington has dismissed polling showing a collapse in NSW Labor's electoral support as a union "hatchet job" against leader Jodi McKay. Mt Pleasant coal mine near Muswellbrook has applied to extend its life by 22 years and double the amount of coal it extracts annually. Qantas has started direct flights from Newcastle to Melbourne for the first time in more than a decade. Newcastle coach Ash Wilson wants the Jets to make life difficult for Canberra when they host the i...
Monday March 15 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 14, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.81 MBA Quarantine leak has ended NSW's virus-free run. MORE than 1000 people are expected to attend the Newcastle Women's March 4 Justice today. PROSPECTIVE tenants have described offering more money and dressing nicely at open homes in a bid to secure a property in Newcastle as the rental crisis worsens. In sport and Origin prop Daniel Saifiti celebrated his milestone 100th NRL game with a try double as the Knights opened their 2021 premiership campaign. And a petition has been launched calling ...
Saturday March 13 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 12, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.18 MBTHE COVID-19 vaccination program has the potential to "collapse" once general practices realise they could lose more than $300 a day for participating in the rollout, Hunter GPs have warned. Average income levels have jumped almost 25 per cent in six years in inner Newcastle while remaining almost static in the Hunter's coalmining heartland. CANBERRA-BASED builder Bloc has been hit by a double whammy after another one of its Newcastle construction projects was flooded by a burst water pipe. ...
Friday March 12 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 11, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.53 MBThe Hunter will be home to one of the state's first green hydrogen hubs after the NSW government committed $70 million to their development. Newcastle council has banned an 85-year-old community group representative who phoned in a bomb threat last month. State Labor is pressing the Office of Local Government to suspend Newcastle councillor Allan Robinson for three months, the maximum allowable under the law. Adam O'Brien is missing key personnel and been at pains during the pre-season to em...
Thursday March 11 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 10, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.11 MBMining companies directly injected $6.2 billion into the Hunter economy last financial year, supporting over 13,000 Hunter mining jobs and over 3,400 local mining supplier businesses, the NSW Minerals Council's latest annual member expenditure survey shows. A march could be part of this year's Anzac Day commemorations in Newcastle, but the Nobby's dawn service remains unlikely under new COVID-19 restrictions. Aboriginal rock art sites that were previously unrecorded have been discovered in n...
Wednesday March 10 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 08, 2021 18:00 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBThe Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation has lodged plans with Newcastle council to subdivide its remaining land in Honeysuckle, revealing the exact size of two large parcels earmarked for development. A CRUCIAL piece of legislation that allows NSW pharmacists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine has not yet been passed, the NSW branch president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) says. FAMILIES of students attending the Hunter's Catholic schools have seen the annual b...
Tuesday March 9 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 08, 2021 06:38 - 3 minutes - 3.27 MBOrica will spend $39 million upgrading its Kooragang Island prill tower as part of a drive to reduce air pollution. The gender gap in property ownership is significantly higher in the Hunter, especially outside Newcastle, than in the rest of Australia. Hunter manufacturers and miners will benefit from a $750 million state government program to help modernise technology and reduce emissions over the next decade. A surfer has tested positive for coronavirus and was stopped from boarding the Wo...
Monday March 8 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 07, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBHUNTER businesswoman Meg Purser has been posthumously recognised for her contribution to the Charlestown community as the woman of the year. THE multi-million dollar Port Stephens oyster industry could be threatened by a future Lower Hunter dam at Limeburners Creek. NEWCASTLE council has called for tenders to complete the next phase of its Wallsend flood mitigation program. In sport and Hannah Brewer believes Newcastle's final four W-League matches are an opportunity to show what they are ca...
Saturday March 6 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 05, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.21 MBThe federal government's proposed gas-fired power plant at Kurri Kurri will almost certainly go ahead after AGL confirmed it would not be in a position to make a final investment decision on its $400 million Tomago peaking plant by the government's April deadline. More than 10,000 women are due to share in hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation after Johnson & Johnson failed to overturn a landmark ruling finding it concealed the true extent of complications of damaging medical devic...
Friday March 5 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 04, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.03 MBPrime Minister Scott Morrison has all but killed off an application to allow more gas exploration off the Hunter region's coast. The company behind the soon-to-be-built lithium ion battery factory at Tomago says the government's Resources Technology and Critical Minerals Processing road map will help increase the value and influence of Australia's battery industry. EXTENDING the lifespan of a Muswellbrook coal mine would shut off diversification options for the Hunter, a hearing has been tol...
Thursday March 4 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 03, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.04 MBPrime Minister Scott Morrison will make his third visit to the Hunter in six months today to launch the government's resources roadmap. A SMALL reprieve for Muswellbrook's Mangoola mine could have big consequences for the upper Hunter area, residents have told planning experts. City of Newcastle has kicked community representative Christine Everingham off a Foreshore Park planning group for allegedly "physically poking and pushing" a council employee at a public drop-in session last month. N...
Wednesday March 3 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 02, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.39 MBThe state government has been forced to put on hold plans to abolish train guards on the new intercity fleet. Hunter property prices powered ahead in February after a year in which the average Newcastle house stayed on the market just 24 days. NSW LABOR has called on the state government to urgently fund an early intervention program in schools that discusses healthy relationships, consent and domestic violence. Origin prop Daniel Saifiti has been handed the co-captaincy alongside hooker Jay...
Tuesday March 2 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
March 01, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.91 MBUP to 7,500 frontline health workers in Hunter New England will be offered the COVID-19 vaccine once the John Hunter vaccination hub is up and running on March 15. Former NSW mining minister Ian Macdonald and former union boss John Maitland will not be retried on corruption charges until 2022 - three years after an appeal court quashed their convictions. A survey of the ocean floor will begin today, to determine whether sand can be taken from a 60 square kilometre patch of seabed off the coa...
Monday March 1 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 28, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.48 MBPFAS foams have been banned from fire fighting training in NSW from today, with further restrictions on their use in extinguishers to take effect in 18 months' time. POLICE say a man who suffered critical head injuries when he fell from a moving vehicle at Mayfield in December had moments earlier been punching the windscreen while lying across the car’s roof. The biggest shipment of coronavirus vaccine doses to arrive in Australia so far touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, with 300,000...
Saturday February 27 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 26, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.41 MBA FORMER assistant scout master who repeatedly indecently assaulted a young boy at a scout camp in the Upper Hunter in the late 1970s has been jailed for a maximum of three years and six months in Newcastle District Court. HUNTER-based front-line medical staff have described as 'ludicrous' an arrangement that could see hundreds, if not thousands, of them left with no other option to receive a COVID-19 vaccination but to travel to Sydney. Rainfall in the Hunter this summer was up to 70 per ce...
Friday February 26 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 25, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.36 MBThe independent body advising government on Australia's infrastructure needs has added Newcastle Airport and Broadmeadow entertainment precinct to its list of priority projects. Newcastle's unemployment rate rose to 7.6 per cent in January, significantly higher than the state and federal averages. Netted facilities in Lake Macquarie will be prioritised as a component of an aquatic strategy currently being developed, following the recent shark attack near Morisset. Adam O'Brien is on track to...
Thursday February 25 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 24, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.23 MBTwo coal-fired power plants in the Hunter and Central Coast could become "worthless stranded assets" by 2025, a new analysis claims. MORE than one third of hair salon business owners suffered mental health issues and more than a fifth suffered depression in 2020 as they faced blow after blow, a national survey shows. TOP brass from the defence industry will gather in Newcastle later this year. Crown Plaza Hunter Valley will host the Hunter Defence Conference from April 22. The NRL's youngest...
Wednesday February 24 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 23, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.13 MBAn extra $25 a week for welfare recipients is not enough", according to Hunter support service Survivors r us. An Aboriginal activist who successfully campaigned to rename Coon Cheese says it is "beyond all comprehension" that the name of Swansea's Coon Island has not been changed. DINGOES at Tea Gardens and Hawks Nest have become increasingly aggressive, Midcoast Council has warned. Teenage star Bradman Best is about to become the Newcastle Knights' longest signed player with the boom centr...
Tuesday February 23 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 22, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.53 MBTHE first COVID-19 vaccination hubs in NSW became operational at Liverpool, Royal Prince Alfred and Westmead hospitals yesterday, but it is not yet clear when the rollout will begin in the Hunter. A SYSTEM intended to improve the allocation of medical practitioners throughout Australia has led to longer waiting times, higher out-of-pocket expenses and fewer doctors for patients in the Hunter and Central Coast, a workforce report has found. US chemicals giant KOPPERS has been ordered to pay $...
Monday February 22 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 21, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.32 MBPRIME Minister Scott Morrison has become one of the first people in Australia to get his COVID-19 vaccination. DRUG manufacturing capability is being planned in the Hunter to create new jobs for the region and boost the security of Australia's medical supplies. A SMALL koala DNA study conducted at Port Stephens appears to suggest that gene flow between isolated koala populations is increasingly limited. World champion Lauren Parker has won her third-straight home victory at the City of Newca...
Saturday February 20 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 19, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBNewcastle's World Surf League event is likely to be screened off and limited to 2700 spectators if existing COVID-19 restrictions continue. IT’s likely to take until the final three months of the year for Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG) to repair the shiploader that was badly damaged during a wild storm in November, leaving the Kooragang Island operation with just one shiploader. SEVERAL roads and bridges were shut in Dungog after flash flooding yesterday. Knights chief Phil Gardn...
Friday February 19 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 18, 2021 18:00 - 4 minutes - 4.18 MBNumerous Hunter organisations including City of Newcastle and the University of Newcastle have been caught up in a decision by Facebook to restrict publishers from sharing links on the platform. The Hunter has missed out on being among the first towns, suburbs and hubs to receive the COVID-19 vaccine when the national roll out begins next week. Organisers of Newcastle's Anzac Day commemorations say the community will again be encouraged to pay their respects with a candle at the end of their...
Thursday February 18 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 17, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.47 MBSeveral small businesses have been left tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket from the liquidation of the Martin Lee-owned Newcastle Jets after an already tough 12 months due to COVID-19. Shortland MP Pat Conroy says Advent Energy's plans to drill for gas off the coast of Newcastle and Central Coast are "deeply distressing". Morisset Showground could be developed into a regionally significant events venue capable of holding major festivals and events, as part of a new plan aimed at guid...
Wednesday February 17 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 16, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBNewcastle Permanent will close three more of its branches next month as the vast majority of customers opt to conduct their banking online. Premier Gladys Berejiklian has appointed Liberal upper house MP Taylor Martin as parliamentary secretary for the Hunter, filling a post left vacant since 2019. THE John Hunter Hospital is among the nominated "vaccination hubs" for the COVID-19 vaccine in NSW, but a start date for the rollout in the region is yet to be confirmed. TIM Tszyu says he is dete...
Tuesday February 16 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 15, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.07 MBTHE Health Services Union (HSU) NSW has welcomed the release of a final report into improvements to hospital security, calling it long overdue recognition of the conditions hospital workers confront. Lake Macquarie's Marine Rescue commander says 25-knot winds were blowing on Sunday afternoon, when a man was knocked overboard from a yacht and subsequently died. Two thirds of Hunter workers on JobKeeper in September are no longer receiving the wage subsidy, according to figures issued by Treas...
Monday February 15 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 14, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.68 MBORGANISERS say next month's Newcastle Show will be as big as ever despite a lack of support from the site owner, Venues NSW. A MAN who attacked his neighbor in 2019, with a large kitchen knife at Hawks Nest, cornering him in his garage and stabbing him four times, told police he was "hearing voices" and "seeing pictures" in the moments before he "went crazy with the knife". A RISE in the number of jobs facing Marine Rescue in recent weeks has prompted a warning for skippers to take more care...
Saturday February 13 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 12, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.15 MBResources Minister Keith Pitt has promised the Hunter community will not have to wait long for a decision on an application to allow offshore gas exploration off the region's coast. A Vietnam veteran and volunteer advocate for veterans' affairs in the Hunter is calling on the federal government to restart a face-to-face support service in Newcastle after almost a year. MELBOURNE'S five-day lockdown has caused the postponement of Paul Dempsey's headline performance at Newcastle's New Annual f...
Friday February 12 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 11, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.19 MBNewcastle's bid to become an east coast base for Australia's new submarine fleet is still alive, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has confirmed. The top Hunter locations for speeding detections by mobile cameras have been revealed with more than $360,000 in revenue collected from 10 streets in just six months. Work is due to resume this year on a new inner-city Newcastle hotel after the government approved amended plans for the project. Newcastle Jets midfielder Angus Thurgate has re-signed f...
Thursday February 11 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 10, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.87 MBFORMER operators of a Doyalson petrol station will be forced to pay $210,000 after their appeal against the penalty for underpaying two migrant workers was dismissed in court. Maitland City Council raised a high alert for Telarah Lagoon and Walka Water Works yesterday after recent water sampling indicated levels of blue green algae. Health officials have warned of a flu-like disease spread from animals to humans as a mice plague worsens in parts of NSW. Craig Deans has been appointed head co...
Wednesday February 10 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 09, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBHunter Jobs Alliance says ANZ's decision to stop underwriting Newcastle's port operator shows that governments need to work harder to keep pace with the private sector's shift away from fossil fuels. The NSW government has ended lockout laws in Kings Cross, leaving Newcastle as the last city precinct in the state with strict late-night trading restrictions. A Lake Macquarie councillor has asked council for more detail about a possible name change for Coon Island. Lambton Jaffas are resigned ...
Tuesday February 9 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 08, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.63 MBThe upgrade of Newcastle Airport's runway to international standard has moved a step closer following talks between Defence Minister Linda Reynolds and the airport. RESIDENTIAL land values in the Hunter increased by 3.1 per cent in the year to July 2020, with the largest rise in Dungog where values jumped 16.2 per cent. University of Newcastle researchers are studying the potential effects of PFAS on male reproduction. Jet’s W league Coach Ash Wilson praised her players' character in a 4-2 l...
Monday February 8 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 07, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.38 MBJessica Brown Digital Journalist Australian Community Media M 0447 127582 Sunday - Wednesday A 28 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle, NSW, 2300 W www.newcastleherald.com.au ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Jessica Brown <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 2:50 PM Subject: script To: Jessica Brown <[email protected]> It’s Monday, February 8, and this is the Newcastle Herald Today, your trusted voice in the Hunter, I’m Jessica...
Saturday, February 6 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 06, 2021 06:00 - 3 minutes - 3.17 MBNSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has slammed a proposed gas exploration project off the Hunter coast stating the project has 'no upside'. KURRI KURRI's controversial Hunter Economic Zone will be the site of a power-station sized battery if a Sydney-based investment fund gets its plans off the ground. A MINE near Muswellbrook has been fined $15,000 over a foul smelling blast", the NSW Environment Protection Authority has confirmed. interim Jets boss Craig Dean says he’s focused purely on taki...
Friday, February 5 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 04, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.36 MBNEWCASTLE is in the running to host the state's first World Surf League Championship Tour event in almost 30 years with the council confirming it has thrown its hat in the ring to bring the world's best surfers back to the city's beaches. A corruption investigation into the activities of former Awabakal Aboriginal Land Council board members remains on hold almost three years after it commenced. Maitland recorded the state's cheapest average unleaded petrol price last week, according to the l...
Thursday, February 4 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 03, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.26 MBPrime Minister Scott Morrison is due to return to the Hunter on Monday, his second visit to the region in six months. University of Newcastle has distanced itself from Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy, the immunologist whose analysis of COVID-19 treatments has been used to justify the controversial views of Liberal MP Craig Kelly. Lake Macquarie council has added 27 new trainees as part of its education to employment program aimed at young adults leaving school, university of TAFE. Jets exec...
Wednesday, February 3 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 02, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.16 MBLake Macquarie MP Grep Piper has called on the government to significantly expand its use of coal waste in road construction projects to help reduce the impact of one of the biggest pollutants in the state. A University of Newcastle study into a proposed koala national park on the NSW Mid North Coast has projected it would boost regional economic output by $1.2 billion over the next 15 years. Transport for NSW will continue funding a bus route used by Hunter Sports High School students, desp...
Tuesday, February 2 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
February 01, 2021 18:00 - 4 minutes - 3.84 MBThe University of Newcastle will host one of 13 hydrogen clusters across Australia as part of a push to support growth and industry collaboration within the emerging green fuel industry. Newcastle house prices are now climbing at a stratospheric rate, according to data issued on Monday. A man who stole $10,000 worth of cowboy hats from a Hunter store has been sentenced to a 14-month Intensive Correction Order and ordered to pay compensation to the shop he robbed. Northern NSW NPL club Newcas...
Monday, February 1 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 31, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.34 MBA SOLAR farm could adjoin the gas-fired power station proposed for the former Kurri Kurri smelter site. NEWCASTLE house prices climbed 11.9 percent. NIPPERS, surfers, and swimmers were evacuated from the water at Merewether, Dixon, and Bar beaches on Sunday due to multiple shark sightings. FORMER Socceroo Robbie Slater believes Craig Deans deserves a crack at coaching the Newcastle Jets full-time.
Friday, January 29, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 28, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.14 MBOcean intake and outfall pipes for a potential large-scale desalination plant on Walsh Point would run under the Hunter River and Stockton before emerging in Stockton Bight, technical reports show. Outspoken Hunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon believes reshuffling the party's frontbench is a step towards 'putting labour back into Labor'. Newcastle's official unemployment rate was 7 per cent in December, the lowest level since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Interim Jets coach Craig Deans says N...
Thursday, January 28, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 27, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.75 MBThere are renewed hopes that the $56million upgrade of Newcastle Airport's runway will become a reality in the May federal budget. POLICE first on the scene of a motorbike crash in the Hunter made a valiant attempt to save the life of the rider before he died at the scene. A 10th straight day of zero locally acquired COVID-19 cases will see restrictions eased in NSW from tomorrow. Lachlan Fitzgibbon says he is past being angry and has buried the hatchet with teammate Mitchell Pearce after th...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 26, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBAuthorities were forced to close beaches from Merewether to Bar Beach after an early-morning shark sighting. Morethan 2000 people took part in a day of mourning and, later, a cultural celebration to mark January 26. THE Nationals' backbench policy committee says the federal government should "support" a new coal-fired power plant in the Hunter as part of a plan to revive Australian manufacturing. Newcastle Jets are set to strengthen their attacking stocks with the addition of former Young So...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 25, 2021 05:05 - 3 minutes - 2.98 MBOfficials say a bull shark was the most likely species to have bitten a swimmer in Lake Macquarie at the weekend. The NSW Police Force is reminding the community to celebrate safely this Australia Day, as the state prepares to mark a national holiday that will look very different this year. A man who failed to appear in court over allegations he sexually assaulted a five-year-old girl at Lake Macquarie in 2019, has been apprehended after three months on the run. Newcastle Knights head of rec...
Monday, January 25, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 24, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.09 MBPolice investigating the discovery of a body found floating in Newcastle harbour on the weekend say they are looking for anyone who might have seen a 25-year-old African man near licensed premises on Wharf Road on Wednesday night. Police are searching for three people who fired a gunshot and smashed a woman over the head with a baton before ransacking the place during a terrifying home invasion at Teralba on Saturday night. The opening of Nihon University's Newcastle campus has been put back...
Friday, January 22, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 21, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.74 MBPOLICE officers say they had no other choice but to shoot Tafari Walton as he ran at a detective, a knife raised in his right hand, in the backyard of a home at Glendale in March, 2019, a coronial inquest has heard. Canberra Raiders hooker and former Knights junior Tom Starling is no longer facing six charges of attacking four police officers, including a female senior constable, during a Central Coast brawl. Singleton mayor Sue Moore has reiterated calls for the town's bypass designs to be ...
Thursday, January 21, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 20, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.19 MBA manwas taken to hospital yesterday after he was trapped for roughly an hour in the wreckage of a truck that rolled in Port Stephens. A GUN seized near the door of a Swansea property marked the start of a Lake Macquarie police raid and the beginning of an investigation into several seized firearms. The NSW Teacher's Federation has slammed the state government for listing the Scone TAFE NSW campus for sale, saying it fears other colleges will join it on the chopping block. Daniel Arms hopes ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 19, 2021 18:00 - 2 minutes - 2.51 MBInvestigations into the circumstances surrounding the death of a 13-year-old girl at Maitland Aquatic Centre last week are continuing. A 94-unit social and affordable housing development has been unveiled at Cardiff by the NSW Minister for Families, Communities and Disability Services. All mobile speed camera vehicles in NSW will soon have their high-visibility decals either entirely removed or reduced as part of changes which include tripling the operating hours of the 45 vehicles deployed ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 18, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.89 MBHunter MP Joel Fitzgibbon has warned his party that they must put 'labour back in Labor' or face electoral annihilation. The four men rescued after their boat sank near Broughton Island on yesterday have been praised for carrying safety equipment and wearing lifejackets. Nelson Bay marina has opened a week after a sewage pipe leak closed the town's waterfront for days in peak season. Jets W-League coach Ash Wilson wants her inexperienced attack to find belief and more composure in front of g...
Monday, January 18, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 17, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 2.97 MBPUBLIC transport use in the Hunter is still well below what it was pre-coronavirus with ticketing data revealing COVID-19's staggering impact on passenger numbers. RESIDENTS of apartment blocks at Newcastle West near the Marketown shopping centre say they are appalled at the stink coming from an ageing Hunter Water pumping station off King Street next to Cottage Creek. Two people have been taken to hospital in a serious condition after a motor vehicle crash on the Central Coast. WESTS contin...
Friday, January 15, 2020: Top stories from the Newcastle Herald, your trusted voice in the Hunter
January 14, 2021 18:00 - 3 minutes - 3.11 MBTwo state government departments were unable to fully verify if it was appropriate for multinational company Kerogen Investments to become the majority owner of a gas exploration licence. A man has been charged over an alleged illegal tobacco crop at Bulga, near Singleton, worth more than $9.9 million. Lake Macquarie council is "interested" in reviewing the name of Coon Island in Swansea ahead of upcoming infrastructure works, which include updating signage, in the area. To sport now where A...