The Upper Hunter Shire Council was among six NSW councils that applied for a rate increase in the 2025-2026 financial year.

The Gladstone Hotel is planning to reopen as a "family-forward venue", and a "hub, not a pub".

Two Newcastle councillors want to see increased police resourcing to address illegal e-bike and e-scooter use in public ...

A HUNTER coal mine is tracking to double its greenhouse gas emissions by 2026 if its expansion plans are approved without ...

EMERGENCY calls reporting a large group of unregistered motorbike riders "terrorising" other road users in Newcastle and Lake ...

Having spent a number of weeks away from my apartment in Newcastle East, I arrived back to discover that our local timepiece, ...

Fire and Rescue NSW were called to reports of a packaged chemical "smoking" this afternoon in a Lake Macquarie business.

Fast-moving currents have hampered the search for a missing fisherman believed to have been dragged overboard by a shark in a ...

HELLBENT on revenge, five men kick down a door at Muswellbrook in the dead of night and storm inside wielding machetes, bats ...

HOUSING supply and demand, skills shortages and affordability were among the hot topics discussed at HIA's housing roundtable ...

Agnes and Shane Burrell dropped their kids off at school in the morning and were on a flight to Ukraine's front lines that ...

A MAN accused of attacking a police officer with a "bladed tactical shovel" is facing an attempted murder charge after a ...