Local News

A man has been killed after his car crashed into a tree at Scone.  Hunter Valley Police District officers say at about 4:30pm yesterday, Monday August 19, a Mazda 3 was travelling...

Two people have been flown to Newcastle in a serious condition with multiple injuries after an accident at Jerrys Plains.  Emergency services including the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service were called to the...

  Upper Hunter Shire Council has apologised for giving trees outside the Council Chambers the chop. Last week Council pruned three trees in front of the Council building on Main Street which Council believed...

Two people have escaped a house fire uninjured at Pokolbin overnight.  Emergency services were called to Gillards Road at about 5:20pm yesterday following reports of a fire.  Fire and Rescue NSW and...

The Hunter Valley Police District (HVPD) is reminding everyone they're still continuing Operation Armour throughout the district. It's a statewide operation being conducted in rural areas focusing on reducing, disrupting and...

Murrurundi artist David Darcy has taken out the People's Choice award in this years Archibald Prize.  David was voted for by the public for his portrait of Warakurna and Ngaanyatjarra elder Daisy Tjuparntarri...

Submissions are open for the Maxwell Underground mine project near Jerrys Plains. Malabar Coal has put their Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on public exhibition for the project that would see bord...

UPDATE: The Westpac Rescue Helicopter flew the 29-year-old man to the John Hunter Hospital yesterday afternoon. The man suffered pelvic and rib injuries when he was run over by a tractor on...

Hunter Valley Police District officers are determined to bring down road trauma through Operation Merret.  NSW Police have already begun Operation Merret that will run through until October, it is an...

The Murrurundi pipeline project is finally up and running.  The first pipe in the more than $14 million project was laid this week for the pipeline that will be taking water...