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EnergyAustralia is spending $16 million beefing up security at its substations and depots around the Hunter and Sydney to curb copper theft.
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Police are yet to identify a man killed in a car accident near Bulahdelah yesterday.
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The Newcastle Master Builders Association (MBA) is urging the Federal Government to extend the time frame for its first homeowners' incentive package, beyond June next year.
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A coronial inquest into the deaths of two rail maintenance workers in the New South Wales Upper Hunter has heard the men did not adhere to basic workplace safety rules.
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Two men have been charged after a woman was found shot dead in the New South Wales central west yesterday.
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Newcastle councillors have expressed mixed views on the city's rail line, before unanimously agreeing it should not be ripped up until alternatives are put in place.
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A Newcastle Labor councillor say a draft plan of management for the Merewether Beach precinct is hopelessly flawed, as it does not include the iconic Surf House.
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A Newcastle-based financial counsellor says the latest interest rate cut will pull many Hunter families back from the brink of bankruptcy.
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The New South Wales Government has approved further modifications to Newcastle's proposed multi-million dollar multi-purpose terminal (MPT) on the former BHP steelworks site.
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Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman at Kandos in the New South Wales central west.
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