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The Latest Breaking News from Hunter

Home truths about the Hunter's property pain demand serious foresight

Interest rates are doing little to help those attempting to crack into the market for a place to live, but there are other structural problems that lie at the foundation.

Newcastle Herald

Housing crisis: experts warn social and affordable housing must be a national priority

National housing campaign Everybody's Home has warned that Hunter renters on low incomes will continue to struggle to make ends meet even with scheduled increases to Centrelink and Commonwealth Rent Assistance payments.

Newcastle Herald

Labor pledges Hunter authority to guide renewables power shift

State Labor has committed to creating a Hunter clean energy transition authority to help the region adjust to unprecedented social and economic change in coming years.

Newcastle Herald

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Hunter MP under fire over bus industry donations

The Coalition has accused the shadow regional transport minister of a conflict of interest for taking tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the private bus industry.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter sizzles through hottest day in two years, but relief is on the way

Temperatures will return to near normal for autumn by the end of the week.

Newcastle Herald

Negligent Hunter construction manager ordered to pay $1m

Notorious building industry operator personally liable for defects and damage.

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Four people, two dogs hurt in Muswellbrook home invasion by five men armed with machetes, knives

Four people and two dogs have serious injuries after they were attacked by five armed men in a violent overnight home invasion in the New South Wales Hunter region.

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Retreat on Sydney to Newcastle high-speed rail 'a joke'

Key Hunter lobby groups have called on the NSW government to clarify whether it has abandoned its plans for fast rail between Newcastle and Sydney.

Newcastle Herald

Chris Minns on Supercars, housing, Hunter Park and more

The Herald sat down with the Labor leader on Monday to talk about some Hunter issues.

Newcastle Herald

Minns says Hunter firms good shot at train building under Labor

The Labor leader wants voters to see a point of difference between the Opposition and the Coalition on manufacturing and asset sell-offs.

Newcastle Herald

Labor says NSW on track to build more trains if elected

Labor is vowing to create jobs in NSW regional centres with $42 million to train apprentices in the Hunter, Illawarra and Sydney's west if it wins the election.

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An invitation to help transform the Hunter

The Hunter is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. Along with significant challenges, there are enormous opportunities for social and economic growth.

Newcastle Herald

Man charged in Hunter over shooting near Kempsey

A man charged in the Hunter over an alleged shooting near Port Macquarie last month will remain in custody until his next court appearance in April.

Newcastle Herald

Rule of law more important than ever, Chief Justice says

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of NSW has given a nod to the "extraordinary crop" of legal practitioners the Hunter has historically produced, as he welcomed a new cohort into the profession during a speech in Newcastle on Friday morning.

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Hunter's hydrogen opportunity in the balance

The Hunter's emerging hydrogen industry may never achieve the same export scale as the fossil fuel industry without the implementation of effective industrial policy settings, a new energy report warns.

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Hunter's housing hell: report card raises 'alarm bell'

Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens have joined the top ten local Government areas in regional NSW with the "highest housing needs" along with Cessnock, Maitland, and Newcastle.

Newcastle Herald

Cessnock lottery win: $164,000 prize confirmed in NSW The Lott draw

A Hunter resident will receive a boost to her bank account after The Lott officials confirmed her division one winning entry in Wednesday's Lotto Strike.

Newcastle Herald

Call for Hunter advocacy groups to coordinate efforts

The Hunter's disparate array of advocacy and lobby groups needed to adopt a more coordinated approach to the Hunter's energy transition, the director of the Grattan Institute's energy program believes.

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Vale Ken Warby: the world's fastest man on water

Worlds fastest man on water Ken Warby remembered for his world water speed record, racing career and for his family ties to the Hunter.

Newcastle Herald

Hunter businesses face energy crunch

The Hunter's peak industry body has supported the Australian Energy Market Operator's call for urgent investment in generation, long-duration storage and transmission to achieve energy certainty.

Newcastle Herald

30-foot waves: Hunter firefighter Tyler Bartlett's up for massive surf

Hunter local Tyler Bartlett caught some of Hawaii's biggest waves and described the experience as awesome but admitted he was also feeling nervous.

Newcastle Herald

Newcastle's first electric buses enter service in the Hunter

Newcastle has received the first electric buses to operate outside of Sydney, the first of which entered service today.

Newcastle Herald

The Hunter's worst serial rapist to leave jail earlier after appeal

Andrew James Benn has had five years cut from his maximum jail term after successfully appealing against the severity of his 40-year sentence.

Newcastle Herald

Dashville festival scores COVID recovery grant

The Hunter's Dashville Skyline is among 36 music festivals across the country named for a share in a $2.5 million federal government grant to help the industry's ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Newcastle Herald

Five weeks of fury: Hunter paramedics in statewide industrial action

NSW paramedics are intensifying their campaign for equal pay with interstate counterparts in "five weeks of fury" ahead of the NSW election.

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