The Latest Breaking News from Hunter Valley

Teenager charged with 31 property crimes in the Hunter, New England

Oxley and Hunter Valley police districts have been investigating a spate of break-ins and stolen motor vehicles since January this year.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 28, 2022

Industry salute to Karl Stockhausen's life in Hunter Valley vines

His special place in Hunter winemaking was recognised in 2007 when he became one of the six inaugural recipients of the Hunter Valley Wine Industry's Legends awards.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 23, 2022

NSW woman wins epic coalmine battle

A NSW farmer says she and her community can finally relax after a dogged battle against a coalmine expansion in the Hunter Valley.

AAP · Apr 22, 2022

Warning for flood-hit regions as wet weather and storms return to eastern Australia

Frontal system will move through Sydney, form a line of storms across the Hunter Valley and mid-north coast before moving north

The Guardian - AU · Mar 22, 2022

Pike wins TPS Hunter Valley the hard way

Overnight leader Aaron Pike won the TPS Hunter Valley tournament after downing New Zealand's Momoka Kobori at the third hole of a sudden-death playoff.

AAP · Mar 13, 2022

Pike has 3-shot lead in TPS Hunter Valley

Aaron Pike will go into the final round of the TPS Hunter Valley golf tournament with a three-shot lead from Josh Armstrong and Momoka Kobori.

AAP · Mar 12, 2022

Interest in $100 billion worth of renewable energy projects registered for Hunter Valley coal region

Offshore wind farms, pumped hydro, and large scale battery storage are among the more than $100 billion of private investment interest in a Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone.

ABC News · Feb 15, 2022

Does Labor’s green hydrogen plan for the Kurri Kurri gas power plant stack up?

Energy analysts say their Hunter Valley plan is just ‘an expensive way to avoid a small amount of emissions’ when there are cheaper, greener alternatives

The Guardian - AU · Feb 2, 2022

Labor's plan to green the Kurri Kurri gas power plant makes no sense

Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too? Federal Labor is certainly giving it a go by supporting government plans for a fossil gas/diesel peaking plant in the Hunter Valley currently under construction – as long as the plant switches to green hydrogen by 2030.

The Conversation · Feb 2, 2022

Labor pledges up to $700m in extra funding for Snowy Hydro power plant to make it run on green hydrogen

Anthony Albanese says plan takes Coalition’s ‘flawed approach’ and makes it work but Angus Taylor calls it ‘economically incoherent’

The Guardian - AU · Feb 1, 2022