4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (377+ words) After months of creative brainstorming and meticulous planning, the countdown to New Annual 2026 has begun. Ten days of art, culture, music and ideas officially kick off in Newcastle on Friday, September 25 with the First Night Art Party at Newcastle Art…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (286+ words) Residents of a townhouse allotment at Mayfield spent the night out of their homes after a fire gutted a property on Elizabeth Street. The cause of the fire that tore through one townhouse and threatened others on the lot, which…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (483+ words) A woman accused of helping her boyfriend flee interstate after an alleged stabbing murder on Beaumont Street almost two years ago has still not entered a plea. An application to adjourn Teelah Cooper's case in Newcastle Local Court on Wednesday…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (188+ words) A man has been rushed to hospital after being shot in the hand and torso on Wednesday morning. Emergency services were called to Lakedge Avenue, near Kingsford Smith Road, at Berkeley Vale on the NSW Central Coast about 6.15am on September…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (749+ words) More than 1000 people have died from unintentional drug-induced deaths in the Hunter and Central Coast over a decade. The rising rate of overdoses in the region has prompted calls for Newcastle to have a safe injecting centre. The data shows…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (208+ words) Firefighters remain on scene of a fire that has gutted a Hunter property. The first calls to Triple Zero raising the alarm came in around 10.50am on Thursday September 3, NSW Fire and Rescue spokesman Peter Murray said. Five trucks were dispatched…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (517+ words) A career criminal who has admitted to supplying a smorgasbord of drugs in Newcastle had been warned that he had been around the traps long enough to know better. The problem is, that was 16 years ago. Wayne Jeffry Harrington was…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (365+ words) Police have conducted a highly visible operation uncovering weapons, drugs and cash. Officers attached to Brisbane Water Police District, supported by specialist police resources, conducted the operation targeting antisocial behaviour and crime in the Terrigal area over the weekend. 'Operation…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (488+ words) It's the life Chelsea Malloy had dreamt of for as long as she can remember. One moment, she and the other keepers at the Hunter Valley Wildlife Park could be leaping onto an alligator to harvest eggs during breeding season....

2+ week, 3+ hour ago   (349+ words) It was late on a Monday, sun peaking through the gum trees only a hop, skip and jump away from the water's edge at Warners Bay. But on the eve of spring, this wasn't any ordinary afternoon. As the bus…...