Hunter News

Police are appealing for witnesses to a shocking crash on the M1 at the weekend which claimed the lives of a father and son from Toronto.

An electric car has embarked on the first leg of a round trip of Australia on Friday, departing Newcastle for a journey largely powered by the sun.

Citizen scientists are calling for more research into thermal pollution in the wake of a mass fish kill at Mannering Park in August.

Simon Tedeschi is featured on this edition of Hunter Rostrum. His program includes an interesting rarity in a piano suite by the conductor Eugene Goossens.

Two people have been charged following a joint investigation by detectives from the Robbery and Serious Crime Squad and Lake Macquarie Police District into an alleged home invasion and another shooting in Lake Macquarie earlier this year.

Councillor Tony Jarrett has been re-elected as Deputy Mayor, as Singleton Council returns after its by-election hiccup.

The Environment Protection Authority says the recent mass fish kill at Mannering Park in Lake Macquarie was likely a natural...

The Hunter Defence Conference is set to get started on Wednesday, bringing together local industry and government to discuss the sector's future in the region.

Catholic teachers are ramping up their industrial campaign in the Hunter on Monday, to address pay, conditions, and staff shortages in the sector.

More than 80,000 beehives have been moved to the State's south-west to pollinate almonds, despite the looming threat of varroa mite in the Hunter.