The Latest Breaking News from Hunter

Two people from the Hunter were among the 16 who died with COVID-19 across NSW in the 24 hours to 4pm on Wednesday.

Hunter New England records more than 2000 new cases, another death.

There are signs voters in key seats are turning away from the Labor and Liberal parties, in a trend one analyst likens to the election of Donald Trump to US president in 2016.

After the 2019 Federal poll, the electorate of Hunter, once considered a safe Labor seat, tumbled towards marginal territory, largely because of a word that still rules in the region and at the local ballot box - coal.

THE push for a Newcastle International Airport goes back as far as the 1980s, when the business chamber of the day formed a committee to promote the idea. Then, in the late 1990s, Liberal Paterson MP Bob Baldwin pushed a plan by construction company Abigroup and Maitland businessman Hilton Grugeon…

Hunter New England Health is caring for 86 people in hospital, with just one in intensive care.

Fifteen kilograms of drug-laced lollipops have been seized in raids in the NSW Hunter region and three people are charged with supplying drugs on the dark web.

Bus drivers have demanded appropriate breaks, better working conditions and training to diffuse violent situations as part of a 24-hour strike across Newcastle and the Hunter.

A Taree resident has died and hospitals in the Hunter health district were treating 74 people for COVID-19, three of whom were in intensive care, as hospitalisations further afield in NSW rose overnight even as cases fell.