Newcastle Herald Today: Recent Episodes
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Today is Tuesday, August 30, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A Central Coast man was hospitalised in a critical condition after he was reportedly knocked to the ground in an altercation at Hamlyn Terrace Saturday night.
Today is Saturday, August 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a former Port Stephens dance studio teacher accused of sexually and indecently assaulting five girls, including four students, will face a trial in Sydney in August, 2023.
Today is Friday, August 26, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle council has endorsed March 10 to 12 as the dates for next year's Supercars race while voting to prepare and exhibit a consultation plan on whether to extend the event beyond 2023.
Today is Thursday, August 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A man in his 50s was flown to hospital in Sydney yesterday afternoon after a battery exploded, leaving im with serious acid burns to his face and chest, the NSW Ambulance has said.
Today is Tuesday, August 23, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a coronial inquest into the death of an inmate at Cessnock jail in 2020 will explore how the 34-year-old ingested powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl in the hours before he died.
Today is Saturday, August 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, AGL Energy has taken its Newcastle storage facility off the market.
Today is Friday, August 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the mother of murdered teenager Emerald Wardle had watched and listened for weeks as a trial focused on her daughter's killer and the innocent 18-year-old was constantly referred to as "a demon".
Today is Thursday, August 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Scott Morrison said there was a public and political expectation that the prime minister took responsibility for everything.
Today is Wednesday, August 17, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Scott Morrison held five secret portfolios during the pandemic, including Home Affairs and Treasury, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed.
Today is Tuesday, August 15, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Selwyn Cobbo scores hat-trick for Broncos against Newcastle.
Today is Saturday, August 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a Hunter man charged with multiple counts related to alleged child abuse material offences remains behind bars after his first appearance in court.
Today is Friday, August 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A jury convicted Kathleen Folbigg, but author John Kerr thinks the jurors were misled.
Today is Thursday, August 11, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, nurses and midwives fed up with "untenable" workloads at Maitland Hospital say chronic short staffing is putting patients at risk.
Today is Wednesday, August 10, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Olivia Newton-John had a unique connection with the University of Newcastle.
Today is Saturday, August 6, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, 20 COVID-19 deaths have occurred in the Hunter-New England region in the past week, but cases appear to be close to the peak, a senior health official says.
Today is Friday, August 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, From renewable energy manufacturers to grain farmers, businesses across the Hunter and beyond have rallied to support the push for a Newcastle container terminal.
Today is Thursday, August 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, veteran Newcastle musician Ty Penshorn has slammed moves to shut down outdoor live music at Adamstown Bowling Club, saying neighbours have too much power in the debate.
Today is Wednesday, August 3, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Adamstown Bowling Club has been forced to tone down its popular outdoor music events after noise complaints from neighbours as other Newcastle clubs grapple with the consequences of converting bowling greens into live entertainment spaces.
Today is Tuesday, August 2, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Housing values in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie have experienced their biggest monthly drop since May 2004.
Today is Saturday, July 30, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives Sharon Claydon has had to remind Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor to stop referring to her Mr Speaker - before he went on to use the term another four times.
Today is Friday, July 29, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, former Hunter Valley vineyard owner David James' is accused of being involved in a 'cheque kiting' scheme involving nearly $20 million
Today is Thursday, July 28, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Live music, surf trivia, happy hour and footy. Hotelier Glenn Piper knows what the punters want.
Today is Wednesday, July 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, calls to split the Hunter New England health district in two are politically-based with no clear gains for affected communities, according to health economist Francesco Paolucci.
Today is Tuesday, July 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the government says Newcastle is in the frame to receive support from its airline activation scheme but stopped short of committing funds
Today is Saturday, July 23, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a LakeMacquarie couple spent almost 12 hours caught in a Splendour In The Grass traffic snarl on Thursday night after heavy rainfall sent the Byron Bay music festival into chaos.
Today is Friday, July 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Police have released dashcam vision of a person walking along a driveway as part of an investigation into an ongoing spate of tyre slashings in suburban Newcastle.
Today is Thursday, July 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a primary school worker has been charged after allegedly providing a fraudulent COVID-19 vaccine certificate to her workplace.
Today is Wednesday, July 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Jie William Smith has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter over the death of a six-month-old baby at New Lambton in 2019
Today is Saturday, July 16, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the owners of a prominent hotel in the heart of the Newcastle East heritage precinct have lodged plans for a $6.7 million makeover.
Today is Friday, July 15, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Supercars is poised to race in Newcastle in March 2023 and for the following four years after applying for heritage approval until 2027.
Today is Thursday, July 14, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, several Hunter councils have been left in limbo for electricity supply after a company that agreed to provide power for 10 years tried to pull the plug on its contract.
Today is Wednesday, July 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, people shouldn't be concerned about taking repeated shots of COVID vaccines in a bid to prevent infection of more contagious Omicron strains, Newcastle virologist Nathan Bartlett says.
Today is Monday, July 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man accused of murdering a six-month-old boy at New Lambton in 2019 told detectives after his arrest that he was "covering" for the baby's mother and the child had bruises on his body before arriving at his house, a jury has heard.
Today is Saturday, July 9, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Bee experts believe the deadly varroa mite has been in Newcastle since the summer.
Today is Friday, July 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW Treasury has confirmed coal royalties will more than double in 2021-22, bringing in $2.2 billion more than last financial year, a total of $3.6 billion thanks to record-high coal prices.
Today is Thursday, July 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, former Silverchair frontman Daniel Johns has escaped a full-time jail term over a case of high-range drink-driving that led to a crash after he drove in the wrong direction along the Pacific Highway.
Today is Wednesday, July 6, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the proposed 30-storey residential development at the former Store site in Newcastle West has been given the green light.
Today is Tuesday, July 5, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Port Stephens MP Kate Washington says a Hunter mum facing a looming eviction with nowhere to go is one of an increasing number of constituents who had contacted her office for help in recent months at immediate risk of homelessness.
Today is Saturday, July 2, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, About $65million a year needs to be invested over the next decade to ensure the Hunter Region achieves a just and sustainable clean energy transition, according to a new analysis.
Today is Friday, July 1, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, McDonald Jones Stadium could host huge international music acts in a bold plan to stage open-air concerts at the sporting venue.
Today is Thursday, June 30,, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Federal Nationals leader David Littleproud admits it was a mistake by the former Coalition government not to announce a $250million funding package for a Newcastle Container Terminal - but he insists that Labor now fund the project
Today is Wednesday June 29, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A MAN who left New Zealand helicopter pilot and firefighter Ian Pullen for dead after hitting him with his car outside Singleton will be out of jail in less than 12 months..
Today is Saturday, June 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a critical shortage of GPs could soon leave some Hunter towns without a doctor.
Today is Friday, June 24, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, four people are before the courts after two separate, wild police pursuits through the Hunter this week.
Today is Thursday June 23, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A MAN will face court next month after a Cessnock Road crash that left a pedestrian dead.
Today is Wednesday June 22 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a woman who made a miracle escape from a crash off Swansea bridge five years ago has been left gobsmacked after receiving an $11,000 statement of claim from Roads and Maritime Services.
Today is Tuesday June 21 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, HUNTER councils have won approval to lift their rates by more than the statewide cap in the coming financial year, reaping millions more for their budgets.
Today is Saturday, June 18, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A MAN accused of helping cover up the 2014 murder of Carly McBride did not know she had been killed on the day he is alleged to have helped dump her body in remote bushland outside Scone, a jury has been told.
Today is Saturday, June 17, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from the Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, businesses in the Upper Hunter have called for government support to secure the region’s future after BHP announced it would be applying for an extension to their Mount Arthur operation to 2030, rather than 2045.
Today is Thursday, June 16, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, CHARLESTOWN is set to become a development powerhouse as the local council slashes red tape in favour of intensified housing, more employment, services and recreation in the city's north-east.
Today is Wednesday, June 15, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Wild surf has damaged part of the front of Cooks Hill Surf Lifesaving Club at Bar Beach, as big waves continued to crunch the Newcastle coastline on Tuesday morning.
Today is Saturday, June 11, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a leading Hunter business group has welcomed half a billion dollars in state funding for a high-speed rail connection to Sydney, but Labor says "too little, too late".
Today is Saturday, June 11, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Andrea Bocelli is bound for the Hunter after announcing a five-city series of concerts in October.
Today is Friday, June 10, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the devastated family of a Toronto woman who died after waiting more than seven hours for an ambulance is still waiting for answers.
Today is Thursday, June 9, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Hundreds of frontline service workers have rallied and marched through Newcastle calling on the NSW government to remove a public sector wage cap and give them a pay rise to cover soaring cost-of-living pressures, as an offer announced this week was labelled "totally unacceptable".
Today is Wednesday, June 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, MORTGAGE repayments are expected to climb again for millions of Australians after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased the cash rate.
Today is Tuesday, June 7, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Nelson Bay is set to get its first significant new residential building in decades with Port Stephens councillors giving the green light to the nine-storey development on the corner of Yacaaba and Donald streets.
Today is Saturday, June 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) is calling for community feedback on the proposed Mount Pleasant mine expansion.
Today is Friday, June 3, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Australia's new Defence Industries Minister Pat Conroy plans to build on the foundations that his predecessor Greg Combet laid to make the Hunter one of the world's top aerospace hubs.
Today is Thursday, June 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, an extreme body modification artist who killed one woman and seriously injured two others during dangerous cosmetic procedures in Newcastle and the Central Coast is "a monster" who has not shown any remorse or accepted responsibility, one victim's mother says.
Today is June 1, 2022, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The State Emergency Service is preparing for the possibility of another long night as wild winds up to 90km/h continue to hammer many parts of NSW, with just over half the calls for help across the state coming from the Hunter and Central Coast since Monday evening.
Today is Saturday, May 31, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, AGL Energy has ditched plans to split the company into two after strong opposition by major investor Mike Cannon-Brookes and two weeks before shareholders were due to vote on the proposal.
Today is Friday, May 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a councillor has moved to have Port Stephens mayor Ryan Palmer taken off the Newcastle Airport board after a heated debate revealed he gains a personal tax benefit from the $50,000 fee he is paid.
Today is Thursday, May 26, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the mother of a teenage girl snatched from a suburban Lake Macquarie street almost three decades ago says going so long without answers about the fate of her daughter has been like living with a "terminal illness".
Today is Wednesday, May 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW could face a shortage of police officers as recruits give up or move interstate because it's too expensive to become a cop, the president of the state's police union says.
Today is Tuesday, May 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has conceded the seat of Kooyong following Saturday's election.
Today is Saturday, May 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a dead diver found in the Newcastle port with $20 million of cocaine has been named as Brazilian national Bruno Borges.
Today is Friday, May 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on the Coalition government's stance to not overturn a law that bans the territories from legislating on voluntary assisted dying.
Today is Thursday, May 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man who strangled his 18-year-old girlfriend to death at Metford in 2020 was in a psychotic state and had formed the belief she was a "demon" who was "sucking the life out of him", a jury has heard.
Today is Wednesday, May 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a truck driver who was caught with drugs in his system for a second time, after smoking three "cones" at lunchtime on October 29, has been ordered off the roads for six months.
Today is Saturday, May 14, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Police have released images of two people they want to speak with in connection to a diver who died with $20 million worth of cocaine nearby at Newcastle port this week.
Today is Friday, May 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man charged in connection to $20 million worth of cocaine found at Newcastle port this week - who was allegedly caught trying to board an international flight in Queensland - will face court again on Friday, with NSW Police traveling north to secure his extradition.
Today is Thursday, May 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The second crime scene established on the bank of the Hunter River, up-stream from where a diver died with $20 million worth of cocaine nearby, showed signs of outstanding drugs brought in on the shipment.
Today is Wednesday, May 11, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Senior police investigating the death of a diver in Newcastle found with an estimated $20 million worth of cocaine say the 50kg drug importation was clearly attempted by a "well-drilled, professional group".
Today is Tuesday, May 10, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the team behind a pre-election survey of young people in the Hunter says neither major party is addressing their "pessimism" and struggles with mental health.
Today is Saturday, May 7, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a federal Labor government would not commit to property buy-outs for Williamtown Red Zone residents living on Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) contaminated properties around Australia's defence bases.
Today is Friday, May 6, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the NRMA is urging motorists to shop around before filling their tanks as whopping petrol price differences - as much as 30c/l - have been seen from one suburb to the next in Newcastle this week.
Today is Thursday, May 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, There has been confusion around refunds for the Newcastle 500, with Supercars saying ticket holders can ask for their money back, but fans claim they've had no communication about this.
Today is Saturday, April 30, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, helicopter pilot Ian Pullen was found dead by the side of Carrington Street at Glenridding about 5.30am on September 29, 2018.
Today is Friday, April 29, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Labor will match the $82million in funding for a Hunter Super Hydrogen hub, that has the potential to attract 2500 jobs in coming decades.
Today is Thursday, April 28, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, an Anzac Day long-weekend crackdown showed that too many motorists are continuing to take dangerous risks on the state's roads, police say.
Today is Thursday, April 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the Hunter this year have shadowed the first two years of the pandemic combined, and it is still only April.
Today is Friday, April 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the NSW Land and Environment Court (LEC) has ordered a Lane Cove-based company to pay fines totalling more than $250,000 for a series of offences that damaged environmentally sensitive land next to a sanctuary zone of the Great Lakes Marine Park.
Today is Thursday, April 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man accused of killing a toddler at Singleton more than 17 years ago will plead not guilty and face a trial in Newcastle District Court.
Today is Wednesday, April 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A driver has been air-lifted to a Sydney hospital after a serious crash at Port Stephens in the early hours of Tuesday.
Today is Thursday, April 14, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a husband and wife accused of using the dark web to facilitate the purchase of illegal drugs and launder money have been refused bail in Belmont Local Court.
Today is Wednesday, April 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, outspoken coalminer and former Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds has nominated again for the seat of Hunter, vacated at the May 21 federal election by the retirement of long-term Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon.
Today is Tuesday, April 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a world-first trial using Victorian firefighters has found a way to reduce blood levels of potentially harmful chemicals often present in fire-fighting foams.
Today is Saturday, April 9, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, AGL would be required to give an extra 18months notice of its intention to close Bayswater Power Station under a rule change proposed by the federal government.
Today is Friday, April 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Scott Morrison has said his team will "see what we can do" to address the concerns of an angry punter at an Edgeworth drinking hole Wednesday night.
Today is Thursday, April 7, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the Hunter Central Coast Regional Planning Panel has signed off on plans for a 559 residential-lot development, known as Parry's Cove, on the edge of the Myall River at Tea Gardens.
Today is Wednesday, April 6, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a "huge and impractical" amount of sand would be needed to return Redhead Beach to pre-storm levels as the local council estimates it could take up to two years to return on its own.
Today is Tuesday, April 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Hunter aged care facilities are still in "crisis" as COVID-19 outbreaks continue to challenge a struggling workforce that is "working around the clock" to care for vulnerable residents.
Today is Saturday, April 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a new report on PFAS contamination on and around Australia's defence bases did nothing to give impacted communities hope that the end of the pollution scandal was in sight.
Today is Friday, April 1, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, about a thousand nurses from across the Hunter and Central Coast came together to march through Newcastle to Foreshore Park as part of the state-wide strike action.
Today is Thursday, March 31, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The federal government says it will invest $100 million to help establish a hydrogen and ammonia manufacturing hub at Newcastle port.
Today is Wednesday, March 23, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The chairman of the state's heritage council has reaffirmed the council's view on the historical and cultural significance of Ravensworth homestead, despite being urged by planning officials to change its position to help to pave the way for a coal mine extension.
Today is Saturday, March 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories,Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne has failed to have his third trial on sexual assault allegations moved from Sydney to Newcastle.
Today is Saturday, March 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, candidates in Singleton's most recent council election will "unfairly bear the burden of the failure of the iVote system" according to the NSW Supreme Court.
Today is Friday, March 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet will taking two-and-a- half weeks paternity leave to care for his growing brood after his wife gave birth to their seventh child
Today is Thursday, March 17, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a Maitland woman is among two charged with threatening a Labor senator.
Today is Wednesday, March 16, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, BAE Systems Australia will create 55 new skilled engineering jobs in the Hunter through the expansion of its Williamtown base.
Today is Tuesday, March 15, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle residents living near the Wickham fire site say more needs to be done to reduce the risk of asbestos contamination.
Today is Saturday, March 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, property owners and residents who have reported potential asbestos contamination from the fire that destroyed two former woolsheds at Wickham last week are confused and angry about being forced to sign a document absolving NSW government agencies of responsibility for the major clean-up operation the blaze prompted.
Today is Friday, March 11, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The proponents of a proposed 2000 megawatt wind farm off the Hunter coast believe it will create 300 full time jobs over the project's 30 year lifespan.
Today is Thursday, March 10, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, THE Navy was looking at Carrington's Basin Loader in its 2011 search for an east coast submarine base, rather than the vacant former steelworks site, planning documents obtained under Freedom of Information reveal.
Today is Wednesday, March 9, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the Chinese 50-per-cent stake in the Port of Newcastle would have to go if Newcastle was to host an east coast nuclear submarine base, former submariner and military adviser turned politician, South Australian Senator Rex Patrick, said yesterday.
Today is Tuesday, March 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told the Lowy Institute that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the latest example of an authoritarian regime looking to undermine the rules-based system of international order in a "new arc of autocracy".
Today is Saturday, March 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne will face a third trial on sexual assault allegations but wants the venue changed from Sydney to Newcastle.
Today is Friday, March 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW SES crews received hundreds of call-outs to the Hunter region on Thursday amid severe weather warnings.
Today is Wednesday, March 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The Liddell and Bayswater coal-fired power stations have stood like sentinels on the Upper Hunter landscape for the best part of half a century, but times are changing.
Today is Tuesday, March 1, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Lismore in northern NSW is preparing for its worst flood on record, while Queensland mourns the loss of eight lives in floodwaters.
Today is Saturday, February 26, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, read the first instalment in a long-running special report - Power and the Passion - investigating the Hunter’s energy transition and the wide-ranging political, environmental, and community impacts of such an historic industrial shift.
Today is Thursday, February 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, SA notice of motion calling for an independent engineering report into the decision to concrete the base of Newcastle Ocean Baths has been rejected with some councillors saying it was unnecessary and would potentially breach a multimillion-dollar contract.
Today is Thursday, February 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Merewether's landmark Beach Hotel is back on the market after the owners won approval for a controversial development application.
Today is Wednesday, February 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle councillors won't vote on a new date for the Newcastle 500 until at least next month after Supercars advised it wanted to further consult with its board on a suitable date.
Today is Tuesday, February 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a NSW woman who faked her grazier partner's suicide to inherit his multi-million dollar property will instead call a prison cell home until at least 2047.
Today is Saturday, February 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the Crown is considering whether former NRL star Jarryd Hayne should face a third trial on sexual assault allegations.
Today is Friday, February 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Origin Energy has announced that Lake Macquarie's Eraring power station, the largest coal-fired generator in Australia, could close in 2025, seven years earlier than planned.
Today is Thursday, February 17, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle MP Sharon Claydon demands Prime Minister Scott Morrison intervenes over Newcastle container terminal fight.
Today is Wednesday, February 16, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, nurses from health care facilities across the Hunter rallied in Civic Park today, pressuring the state government to implement patient-to-nurse ratios and fair pay.
Today is Tuesday, February 15, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the NSW government is selling off a key Newcastle industrial site next to where Port of Newcastle hopes to build a large-scale container terminal.
Today is Saturday, February 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Some of the Hunter's fixed speed cameras recorded more monthly speeding offences during last year's lockdown than any other month of the year.
Today is Friday, February 11, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, South Korean energy company, KEPCO, has had their special leave application "dismissed with costs" by the High Court of Australia
Today is Thursday, February 10, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle's Anglican bishop says the government's Religious Discrimination Bill "misuses religion to create a wedge between Australians" and should be scrapped.
Today is Wednesday, February 9, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The number of children behind bars in NSW prisons has fallen to a "new historic low" after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today is Tuesday, February 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Australia's resources and energy exports, of which Hunter coal is a significant component, were up almost one-third in the 2021 calendar year.
Today is Saturday, February 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The most lucrative mobile speed cameras in the Hunter have collected more revenue in the last six months of 2021 than the entire previous financial year.
Today is Friday, February 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a Hunter man is camped on the doorstep of his local council office in an attempt to have what he says is a "temporary" road removed from his property.
Today is Thursday, February 3, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Thousands of people in the Hunter Region will have COVID-19 without knowing it, Newcastle-based viral immunologist Nathan Bartlett says
Today is Wednesday, February 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The Catholic diocese will not be allowed to demolish heritage-listed St Columban's Church at Mayfield after a ruling in the Land and Environment Court.
Today is Tuesday, February 1, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, renowned Hunter rail historian Ed Tonks has raised concerns about the Fernleigh Track's tunnel
Today is Monday, January 31, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Teenage driver who caused crash that critically injured Tamika Wever avoids juvenile detention
Today is Friday, January 28, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Petrol prices hit $2 a litre in Newcastle
Today is Thursday, January 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, 250 hydrogen jobs coming to the Hunter.
Today is Tuesday, January 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the new Supercars boss spoke about the Newcastle 500's future for the first time.
Today is Monday, January 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A HUNTER doctor fears a critically ill child could die due to a lack of available ambulances and Limeburners Creek residents are no strangers to a fight
Today is Friday, January 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, An eight week old baby with COVID-19 has died at John Hunter Children's Hospital.
Today is Thursday, January 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Former Port Stephens mayor Bruce Mackenzie has blasted the proposed route for a new section of Nelson Bay Road, promising to fight the NSW government to ensure it is never built.
Today is Wednesday, January 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Another hurdle to extending the city's light rail line through Newcastle West has emerged with a multi-storey car park proposed on part of a potential tram corridor.
Today is Tuesday, January 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, New Maitland Hospital to treat first patients from this week
Today is Friday, January 14, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Accused Jesmond murderer refused bail as details emerge
Today is Thursday, January 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Bylong locals hopeful of buying back land
Today is Thursday, January 6, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, $1.8 billion worth developments approved in Newcastle
Today is Tuesday, January 11, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Regulators disagree over coal fired power
Today is Friday, January 7, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, 34-year-old critical after reported stabbing at Jesmond
Today is Thursday, January 6, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Hunter health workers break silence on “extraordinary pressure” as depleted workforce clashes with COVID outbreak
Today is Wednesday, January 5, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Yogurtland debts of $3.2m
Today is Tuesday, January 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Police investigate after car pulled from the water at Soldiers Point bearing the bodies of an elderly Sydney couple.
Today is Friday, December 31, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle clubs and venues primed to party into 2022
Today is Thursday, December 30, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Hunter health official says cases will keep climbing.
Today is Wednesday, December 29, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW is "pretty close" to letting COVID-19 rip through the community as the public health response of testing and tracing breaks down.