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It's now easier for landholders to eradicate deer.  Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall made the announcement that following a regulation change removing the games species classification from deer meaning anyone with a firearm...

  The Hunter Valley Police District (HVPD) will be the new home for five of the 269 probationary constables that graduated this week. The probationary constables graduated at the Police Academy in...

Water restrictions will soon be introduced in the Lower Hunter. For the first time in 25 years in what is the worst drought on record for NSW, the Level 1 water...

The NSW Rural Fire Service and their fellow emergency services are being put to the test in Merriwa this weekend.  Run by the volunteers of the Liverpool Range Rural Fire Service...

The "community has had a gutful" of protesters trespassing on farmers' property and now those who do will face the toughest penalties in the country.  The NSW Nationals have this week...

A woman has been seriously injured after a motorcycle accident at Glendon Brook.  Emergency services including the Westpac Rescue Helicopter were called to Glendon Brook Road east of Singleton at 10:51am...

Aussie Ark has had their best breeding season yet for Eastern Quolls.  The species have been extinct on Mainland Australia since 1963, and across Tasmania quoll numbers have declined by more than...

A Muswellbrook quarry has been fined again for the same offence.  The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has hit the operator of East Quarry $11,500 for allegedly failing to conduct noise...

CCTV Cameras have finally been installed at Merriwa.  Upper Hunter Shire Council received a $16,200 pilot project grant from the Australian Government's Safer Communities Fund to install the cameras in a...

New England MP Barnaby Joyce has weighed in on the abortion debate through a robocall to his constituents.  The MP has voiced a robocall denouncing proposed legislation to decriminalise abortion in...