Hunter News

With almost $5 million available through Stage Two of the Bushfire Recovery fund, Dungog, Cessnock, Singleton and Upper Hunter Council areas will all receive funding to support bushfire recovery across their impacted communities.

Two perspectives on our food choices and climate change. Dr Graeme Horton, Doctors for the Environment Australia and Charlie Prell, Chair, Farmers for Climate Action.

Rain has boosted the recovery of Lake Macquarie bushland affected by the Black Summer fires in 2020, with new imaging surveys showing flora and fauna returning to the area.

A pain-free diabetes test developed at the University of Newcastle is set to change millions of lives around the world, after receiving $6 million in funding from the Federal Government to help get the product to market.

COVID-19 restrictions in the Hunter have been extended for a further 14 days, as health authorities try to contain Sydney's outbreak.

Police are investigating tomahawk attack in Easy Maitland overnight.

A creative collective in the Hunter have released a report highlighting the impacts of COVID-19 on the arts and culture sector in the region.

Healthcare professionals and people living with cancer will benefit from the $7 million Translational Cancer Research Capacity Building Grant, awarded by the NSW Government through the Cancer institute NSW.

A man has had his international drivers licence suspended after being caught high range drink driving over the weekend.

A 70-year-old man is in a serious but stable condition in the John Hunter Hospital after becoming impaled on fencing equipment he was using near Cessnock.