Today is Friday, March 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW SES crews received hundreds of call-outs to the Hunter region on Thursday amid severe weather warnings.

Today is Wednesday, March 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The Liddell and Bayswater coal-fired power stations have stood like sentinels on the Upper Hunter landscape for the best part of half a century, but times are changing.

Today is Tuesday, March 1, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Lismore in northern NSW is preparing for its worst flood on record, while Queensland mourns the loss of eight lives in floodwaters.

Today is Saturday, February 26, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, read the first instalment in a long-running special report - Power and the Passion - investigating the Hunter’s energy transition and the wide-ranging political, environmental, and community impacts of such an historic industrial shift.

Today is Thursday, February 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, SA notice of motion calling for an independent engineering report into the decision to concrete the base of Newcastle Ocean Baths has been rejected with some councillors saying it was unnecessary and would potentially breach a multimillion-dollar contract.

Today is Thursday, February 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Merewether's landmark Beach Hotel is back on the market after the owners won approval for a controversial development application.

Today is Wednesday, February 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Newcastle councillors won't vote on a new date for the Newcastle 500 until at least next month after Supercars advised it wanted to further consult with its board on a suitable date.

Today is Tuesday, February 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a NSW woman who faked her grazier partner's suicide to inherit his multi-million dollar property will instead call a prison cell home until at least 2047.

Today is Saturday, February 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the Crown is considering whether former NRL star Jarryd Hayne should face a third trial on sexual assault allegations.

Today is Friday, February 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Origin Energy has announced that Lake Macquarie's Eraring power station, the largest coal-fired generator in Australia, could close in 2025, seven years earlier than planned.