Cecilia Connell

Claims about fraud in the coal export industry made by Independent MP Andrew Wilkie have rippled through the Hunter Valley coalfields.

New Hope Group says a decision to host AGM in a regional setting without a live web stream was intended to support the local community.

Dockside sources say a quantity of the drug was recovered from the bottom of a Cyprus-flagged bulk carrier.

The court hears the 47-year-old male driver, who is charged with manslaughter and several other offences, had been told by doctors not to drive because he was suffering seizures.

Roslyn Reay was found with multiple stab wounds in a Newcastle home in 2005. Nearly 20 years later, police are renewing their search for answers.

As Liddell powers down in the New South Wales Upper Hunter Valley after more than half a century, what's next for the community?

The last running turbine at the Liddell Power Station has powered down, marking the end of a 52-year legacy of generating electricity in the NSW Hunter Valley. 

Police are ramping up efforts to try to find a man they believe may have gone missing near his home in a rural hamlet 90 minutes north of Sydney.

There have been prayers, candles and a guernsey tribute for the 10 victims of the Hunter Valley wedding bus crash, as local communities grieve loved ones. 

For more than three decades, Wendy Bowman fought to save her patch of the Upper Hunter from open-cut mining, inspiring a generation of environmentalists along the way.