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63 stories · most recent 28 October 2026 · this page is generated at build, so it is never out of date
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A Mayfield berth is licensed to trial loading lead, zinc and copper concentrate. The air study behind it is not on the port’s website
28 October 2026 · Port · Mayfield
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Lake Macquarie’s stormwater charge raised $2.47 million in its first year and spent $872,000. A rewrite of its rules went to councillors on 26 October
22 October 2026 · Stormwater charge · Lake Macquarie
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Hunter councils put their waste levy contribution at $116 million, with $5.9 million back. Their own earlier numbers show the share returned has risen
16 October 2026 · Waste levy · Hunter councils
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The Hunter’s 2027-28 rates caps are set: Dungog 5.3 per cent, Newcastle and Maitland 4.7. About half a point of each is for cybersecurity
14 October 2026 · Rates · Hunter councils
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Hunter councils closed their doors on 15 items in September. Only Port Stephens’ minutes say, in their own words, why the public interest required it
11 October 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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Cessnock Hospital Redevelopment construction has reached its highest point; Health Infrastructure expects patients in the upgraded spaces after commissioning in 2028
10 October 2026 · Health · Cessnock
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Two Hunter councils asked for the ban on pre-meeting staff briefings to be changed. The upper house has struck out the regulation that held it
10 October 2026 · Councils · Hunter-wide
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Lake Macquarie’s basins kept their A grades, and a marine pest alga, Caulerpa, was observed at Wangi for a third year
9 October 2026 · Water quality · Lake Macquarie
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Newcastle CBD’s paid 2P parking now runs to 7pm on weekdays. Council staff say a permit for residents after 5pm cannot be issued
9 October 2026 · Parking · Newcastle CBD
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A Lake Macquarie tern has tested positive for H5 bird flu. Port Stephens had three events at Bobs Farm in September
8 October 2026 · Wildlife · Lake Macquarie and Port Stephens
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Newcastle endorsed a landslide risk map over 37 New Lambton lots. It would end complying development there
8 October 2026 · Planning · New Lambton
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A draft flood study identifies 1,903 western Newcastle properties as newly flood affected. Submissions close 19 November
7 October 2026 · Flooding · Newcastle and Maitland
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Newcastle’s cultural plan sets 12 measures of success. One has a number, and it matches the plan’s own forecast
5 October 2026 · Council · Newcastle
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Lake Macquarie’s housing strategy points new homes at its centres. It gives none of them a number or a date
4 October 2026 · Housing · Lake Macquarie
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Nine Hunter councils logged 38 code of conduct complaints and found no breach. The published data cannot tell you what that means
30 September 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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Seven years after Myuna Bay closed, the replacement still has no opening date
31 August 2026 · Council · Lake Macquarie
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Both councils passed the Anambah to Branxton plan. Nobody has set the exhibition date.
30 August 2026 · Land use · Maitland and Singleton
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Three public roads near Muswellbrook are being sold to a coal miner and dug up. The last condition was met on 21 August
30 August 2026 · Development · Muswellbrook
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The Denman to Sandy Hollow pipeline has gone up $641,361 since June, and the council is covering a federal funding shortfall
30 August 2026 · Money · Muswellbrook
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Maitland is building more shared paths. It keeps no record of what goes wrong on them.
30 August 2026 · Transport · Maitland
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Maitland has not changed its heavy haulage levy since 2016. It just raised it, and widened who pays.
30 August 2026 · Council money · Maitland
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Maitland’s $7.68 million federal road grant is buying $12.2 million of road. Here is who pays the rest.
30 August 2026 · Council money · Maitland
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2,734 operations in a year, one operating room: Singleton Council votes on Tuesday 1 September on backing a hospital petition
30 August 2026 · Community · Singleton
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Singleton voted down its own town centre masterplan. The $94,000 now comes from somewhere else.
30 August 2026 · Land use · Singleton
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The Hunter’s over-65 share went from 15.6 to 19.8 per cent. In Shortland-Jesmond it nearly halved
30 August 2026 · Population · Hunter
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The Anambah to Branxton plan was on exhibition until 6 October. Four other Maitland consultations closed before it
29 August 2026 · Land use · Maitland
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The rooftop terrace is gone and the community space is smaller: what actually changed in the Ocean Baths amended DA
29 August 2026 · Development · Newcastle
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Half the people who answered did not want the community space. The amended Ocean Baths DA makes it smaller
29 August 2026 · Development · Newcastle
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The Hunter does not have a visitor economy. It has four of them
28 August 2026 · Data · Visitor economy
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Eleven properties pay 57 per cent of Muswellbrook's rates. No council in NSW leans harder on mining
28 August 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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Five Hunter councils are ranked in August for a share of $67 million, and the bar moves every round
27 August 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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The port’s diversified trade grew 31 per cent. Nine tenths of the growth was wheat
26 August 2026 · Data · Port of Newcastle
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Seven of nine Hunter councils ran an operating deficit, and the state stopped publishing the ratio that measures it
25 August 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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The state sets a 2 per cent infrastructure backlog benchmark. One Hunter council in nine meets it
25 August 2026 · Councils · Hunter
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A tailings dam decides when the Macquarie Coal rezoning can be built, and the modelling says about 15 years
19 August 2026 · Land use · Lake Macquarie
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68,000 homes between Maitland and Branxton. The state was going to plan it, then did not, so three councils did
17 August 2026 · Land use · Maitland, Cessnock and Singleton
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Asbestos, PFAS and methane confirmed. Five of sixteen areas never dug into. The rezoning is built to proceed anyway
17 August 2026 · Land use · Lake Macquarie
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Five Hunter councils took $9 million of a $53.9 million state round. The other four were never eligible
16 August 2026 · Council money · Hunter
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The announcement said 7,000 jobs. The report underneath says the Upper Hunter shrinks anyway
16 August 2026 · Land use · Muswellbrook and Lake Macquarie
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Two thirds of Newcastle Museum's visitors now come from outside the Hunter. Fifteen years ago it was a quarter
6 August 2026 · Councils · Newcastle
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We went looking for the port's battery-storage approval. The planning register held one we missed
5 August 2026 · Energy · Mayfield
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Parliament struck down the council meeting code, then the regulation written to stand in for it
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 went to the council on 13 July. One rule is why the councillors decided 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 has opened, about 18 months 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 on 1 July. Here is what it changes at your place
3 July 2026 · Council money · Newcastle
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Queens Wharf West is coming down, 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