30 Jan 10 | THE thunderstorm which ripped through the Hunter on Thursday night dumped 13 millimetres of rain on Cessnock in five minutes and blacked out about 7000 houses.
30 Jan 10 | BROADMEADOW trainer Kris Lees is hoping in-form mare Hidden Wonder can keep his brilliant winning streak going today.
Lees has been the in-form trainer of the NSW ranks in recent weeks and has
30 Jan 10 | LAKE Macquarie ratepayers face paying a tax for five years to improve the environment, which authorities believe will save the city $75 million.
30 Jan 10 | LEADING batsman Scott Howard will return for Kotara in today's City and Suburban A-grade match against Lambton Bowling Club at No.2 Sportsground.
The former Bathurst representative player was u
30 Jan 10 | ENVIRONMENTAL concerns about the Tillegra dam project are leaving a heavy paper trail, with submissions continuing to flood through to politicians.
30 Jan 10 | IT is a man-made body of water that does not reveal its secrets easily and the suspected drowning of popular Scone apprentice Justin Tozer has added to the mystery of Lake Glenbawn.
30 Jan 10 | HUNTER vignerons have responded to the global wine glut by harvesting fewer grapes, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown.
30 Jan 10 | CAPTAIN Matthew Thompson believes the big wet that has hit Townsville could work in the Jets' favour despite it leaving a cloud over the clash against North Queensland Fury at Dairy Farmers Stadium to
30 Jan 10 | THE Knights have not ruled out making a bid for controversial former NSW and Australian enforcer Willie Mason.
The prospect of the 29-year-old Macquarie Scorpions and Hunter Mariners junior ret
30 Jan 10 | FOUR top executives at Hunter councils received pay increases of at least 10 per cent in the past year, while ordinary council workers received rises of only 4 per cent.
30 Jan 10 | NEWCASTLE and Maitland show organisers are gearing up for the 2010 show season by embracing the region's agricultural heritage.
30 Jan 10 | UNIVERSITY dodged a bullet last week and now have the chance to kick clear as competition leaders when they play Western Suburbs in Newcastle district cricket at Harker Oval today.
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30 Jan 10 | VANDALS have cost Lower Hunter residents more than $32 million over the past five years in malicious and senseless damage to council and railway property.
30 Jan 10 | LAKE Macquarie ratepayers face paying a tax for five years to improve the environment, which authorities believe will save the city $75 million.
Lake Macquarie City Council applied last year to
30 Jan 10 | THE redevelopment of Maitland's new regional art gallery has been documented by three emerging artists who have compiled their works for an exhibition on the historic event.
"Construction" is t
30 Jan 10 | Incidents of malicious damage in the city have jumped almost 25 per cent in the past decade. The biggest targets are trains, offices, businesses and community facilities such as bus shelters, parks an
30 Jan 10 | IN a massive shift that has seen Hunter Tourism's marketing budget more than treble to $1 million, the organisation is now under pressure to come up with a formula for self-sustainability.
In b
29 Jan 10 | MOTHER-of-four Kerry McNeilly said test results were just one of the factors she looked at when selecting a school for her children.
29 Jan 10 | EFFLUENT concentration levels at Hunter Water's Burwood Beach waste water treatment plant have breached Government licence limits, as work on the site's multimillion-dollar upgrade progresses.
29 Jan 10 | FOUR more alleged players in the huge Newcastle ecstasy supply ring faced court yesterday as it emerged more than a dozen more could come before court.
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