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Twitter Community feedback is being sought for options for the Murulla Street causeway at Murrurundi. There are two options for the causeway project worth more than $1 million, one is lower to the...

Twitter More UPPER HUNTER businesses are reporting their performance is improving more so than declining. That’s according to the Hunter Research Foundation Centre’s (HRFC) economic indicators from July to December 2018. The results...

Twitter Upper Hunter Air Quality Monitoring Map screenshot from Wednesday 10th April, 5:50pm Dust and "local sources" are the most likely cause of PM10 levels exceeding national standards in the Upper Hunter...

Twitter Shoppers and train passengers who have been in some parts of Maitland are being urged to be on the lookout for symptoms of measles.  A female university student in her 20s...

Twitter A house has been completely destroyed by fire near Singleton.  Fire crews including NSW Rural Fire Service crews and Fire and Rescue NSW were called to the house on Archerfield Road...

Twitter Quirindi will now be able to get a new water dispensing station.  Liverpool Plains Shire Council has received $105,458 under the Coalition Government's Drought Communities Program to install a new water point...

Twitter A driver is lucky to have escaped injury after rolling his car at high speed on the Hunter Expressway. Hunter Valley Police District officers saw a vehicle travelling in the Weston...

Twitter The NSW Resources Regulator has confirmed an incident at Mount Arthur mine at Muswellbrook where a truck rolled on Friday.  A spokesperson for the NSW Resources Regulator said they were notified...

Twitter The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) is holding a public meeting into the Dartbrook Mine Modification proposal today. The hearing is being held at the Upper Hunter Conservatorium of Music from 10am...

Twitter Police are urging anyone with any information or dashcam footage on a fatal crash near Maitland last month to come forward. Emergency services were called to the Hunter Expressway at Buchanan about...