Local News

There is a TOTAL FIRE BAN in place across the Greater Hunter tomorrow, Thursday 17th October, including the Upper Hunter. The NSW Rural Fire Service has the ban in place across the...

The trial of new trading hours at the Muswellbrook and Denman Waste Management Facilities starts at the end of October. In August Muswellbrook Shire Council approved to go ahead with a...

  The Edderton Road Realignment Project is kicking off in Muswellbrook this week.The work is something Mount Arthur mine had to take up to facilitate the already approved extension of their northern...

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Around 80 farmers in Murrurundi have one million reasons to smile.  Today through a joint initiative of company Finish and drought charity Rural Aid, 1 million litres of water was delivered...

Hunter Valley Police District (HVPD) officers arrested two juveniles over a number of break enter and steal offences last week. Scone police arrested a 14 and 17-year-old from Tamworth last Tuesday,...

It's dam good news for farmers in future droughts. The Morrison and Berejiklian Governments joined forces at the weekend to announce $1 billion to build a new dam and upgrade another.  The...

The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has finally approved the Rix's Creek mine extension near Singleton. The approval comes just after a week since a bungled approval where an administrative error saw...

The Hunter Valley Police (HVPD) is seeing an increasing number of fraud cases.  This week in just 24 hours they had seven cases of fraud reported.  One of the reports was involved...