THE Newcastle Writers Festival has secured $245,000 in multi-year state funding, in a move to provide security after the ...

Renee Valentine is a sports journalist with more than 20 years of experience in Newcastle. She is passionate about increasing ...

Indian author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi have won the International Booker Prize for fiction for Heart Lamp, a ...

A Hunter Valley woman has described the SES and the Woodville community as "bloody wonderful" after she and her ...

President Vladimir Putin visited Russia's Kursk region for the first time since Moscow said it drove out Ukrainian forces ...

After a rough childhood in and out of foster care and refuges, Natalia Hogan finally had a safe, stable home at 15-years-old.

VOLUNTEERS are fed up with motorbikes tearing up their mountain bike tracks in Singleton. Alanna is a journalist at the ...

While flooding in Raymond Terrace is nothing new, the sight of the swollen Hunter River still drew many keen onlookers to ...

It's not your average wine auction, that's for sure. A journo all my working life and never wanted to change, also a self ...

Qantas did not deliberately break the law when it illegally sacked 1820 workers and its "mistake" warrants a "mid-range" ...

George Wendt, an actor with an everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy ...

National and Liberal MPs are calling for a united front against Labor as a common enemy despite a growing rift since the ...