The Latest Breaking News from Maitland

After more than a year of campaigning, the pleas from Maitland's community-run local health committee are being answered.

Sergeant Maurice Towers is retiring after nearly half a century of service with NSW Police. The Ashtonfield resident, who was attested in Sydney in 1972, has spent 49 years serving the NSW community. As a fresh-faced 19-year-old, he started his career as a probationary constable stationed in Sydney. The police…

A fatal plane crash that claimed the life of a 44-year-old pilot at Maitland two years ago was most likely caused by a damaged oil cooler that starved the engine of oil leading to a loss of power and eventual engine stall, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigation has found.

A man from the Hunter was among the six people who died with COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 4pm on Sunday, the region's health authority says.

Maitland and Cessnock are undefeated after two rounds.

Like many Tenambit and East Maitland residents, Elfriede Zimmerman relies on the 183 bus to take her to the shops and appointments.

Two elderly men from the Hunter region died with COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 4pm on Wednesday.

An elderly person from the Hunter is among the 14 people who died with COVID-19 in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday, as the Hunter New England region again recorded the state's most fresh cases in a day.

A state government proposed plan would invoke a blanket order to upstream farmers to stop drawing irrigation water from the river's tidal pools when salinity levels reached a triggering threshold further downstream near Miller's Forest.