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23 stories · most recent 5 August 2026 · this page is generated at build, so it is never out of date
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We went looking for the port's battery-storage approval. NSW does not license storing dangerous goods at all
5 August 2026 · Energy · Mayfield
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Parliament struck down the council meeting code. The department could not remake it for four months, so it wrote a regulation instead
5 August 2026 · Councils · Hunter-wide
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A 15-year plan for Speers Point Park is coming to exhibition, and part of it needs a public hearing by law
4 August 2026 · Planning · Speers Point
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A thousand new homes at Cameron Park will pay for sports fields at Edgeworth. Six people downloaded the agreement
3 August 2026 · Development · Cameron Park
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Three days after adopting a ten-year cultural plan, Newcastle announced the thing such plans are for
31 July 2026 · Culture · Newcastle
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Newcastle council is paying someone to count what the state costs it
31 July 2026 · Council · Newcastle
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Raymond Terrace is writing its first new plan in a decade, and it has dropped Heatherbrae from it
31 July 2026 · Council · Port Stephens
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Newcastle adopted a ten-year cultural plan. The council also published what the consultation changed, which is the rarer document
30 July 2026 · Council · Newcastle
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Newcastle is merging four strategies into one. Two of them have aged out
28 July 2026 · Economy · Newcastle
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Female footballers at one Newcastle ground went from 11 to 144 in two years. The city is spending $2.5 million so the change rooms catch up
23 July 2026 · Sport · Tarro + Lambton
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Belmont’s new $1.6 million wharf is bigger and stronger. The part that matters most is the smallest
22 July 2026 · Development · Belmont
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The Hunter’s biggest hospital build is finished. It is not open yet, and that gap is the story
20 July 2026 · Health · New Lambton Heights
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Newcastle's coal port is now the first in NSW cleared to store grid batteries, including Eraring's
19 July 2026 · Energy · Mayfield + Eraring
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A $12 billion train factory is coming back to the Hunter, with a 30-year order book
13 July 2026 · Manufacturing · Teralba + Broadmeadow
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Two buildings over the height limit go to the council on Monday. One rule is why the councillors decide them
10 July 2026 · Planning · Warners Bay + Coal Point
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Five kerbside EV chargers switch on across Lake Macquarie. Here is exactly where
3 July 2026 · Energy · Lake Macquarie
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Lake Macquarie is tracking 1,589 homes short of its target, with about 5,000 approved and unbuilt
3 July 2026 · Housing · Lake Macquarie
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The M1 extension to Raymond Terrace will open in late 2026, more than a year early
3 July 2026 · Roads · Hunter-wide
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Councillors push for a Morisset health facility as Lake Macquarie heads for 270,000 people
3 July 2026 · Health · Morisset
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$15 million to finish designing Newcastle Arena. Building it needs $484 million more
3 July 2026 · Venues · Broadmeadow
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Newcastle’s new $458 million budget started this week. Here is what it changes at your place
3 July 2026 · Council money · Newcastle
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Queens Wharf West comes down this month, six years after the fire
3 July 2026 · Foreshore · Newcastle
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Newcastle’s rates cap is 4.2 per cent. Lake Macquarie’s is 3.2. The gap is how growth gets counted
3 July 2026 · Rates · Newcastle + Lake Macquarie