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 BY JORDAN REGNIS The Minister For Defence Industry and Shortland MP Pat Conroy will return to Australia tonight, after spending...

The epicenter of the 5.8 earthquake was near Mansfield but it has been felt in Canberra, Newcastle, Dubbo, Adelaide, and Tasmania.

Three Lake Macquarie councilors are fighting the name change of Pirrita Island, saying the community doesn't want it.

After positive responses from four trial games, the walking football pilot program will return at Lake Macquarie Regional Sports Facility in Speers Point.

The NSW Environmental Protection Authority has fined AGL Macquarie $15,000 over an alleged water pollution offence at its Bayswater Power Station at Muswellbrook.

Raymond Terrace Library has installed Port Stephens first 'Share the Dignity" vending machine to provide free period packs at the press of a button

A community petition has been launched through State Parliament against the tree pruning being undertaken by Ausgrid around powerlines across Newcastle.

Newly announced runway upgrades at Newcastle Airport are expected to allow some of the largest passenger jets in and out of the Hunter region within two years.

A teenager has been airlifted to John Hunter Hospital following a stabbing on Wednesday night in the Hunter Valley.

A collaboration between the Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle and the Hunter New England Health District's Department of Nuclear Medicine is enabling men to seek new and effective treatments for prostate cancer