Today is Wednesday, June 15, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Wild surf has damaged part of the front of Cooks Hill Surf Lifesaving Club at Bar Beach, as big waves continued to crunch the Newcastle coastline on Tuesday morning.

Today is Saturday, June 11, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a leading Hunter business group has welcomed half a billion dollars in state funding for a high-speed rail connection to Sydney, but Labor says "too little, too late".

Today is Saturday, June 11, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Andrea Bocelli is bound for the Hunter after announcing a five-city series of concerts in October.

Today is Friday, June 10, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the devastated family of a Toronto woman who died after waiting more than seven hours for an ambulance is still waiting for answers.

Today is Thursday, June 9, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Hundreds of frontline service workers have rallied and marched through Newcastle calling on the NSW government to remove a public sector wage cap and give them a pay rise to cover soaring cost-of-living pressures, as an offer announced this week was labelled "totally unacceptable".

Today is Wednesday, June 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, MORTGAGE repayments are expected to climb again for millions of Australians after the Reserve Bank of Australia increased the cash rate.

Today is Tuesday, June 7, 2022, and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Nelson Bay is set to get its first significant new residential building in decades with Port Stephens councillors giving the green light to the nine-storey development on the corner of Yacaaba and Donald streets.

Today is Saturday, June 4, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) is calling for community feedback on the proposed Mount Pleasant mine expansion.

Today is Friday, June 3, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Australia's new Defence Industries Minister Pat Conroy plans to build on the foundations that his predecessor Greg Combet laid to make the Hunter one of the world's top aerospace hubs.

Today is Thursday, June 2, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, an extreme body modification artist who killed one woman and seriously injured two others during dangerous cosmetic procedures in Newcastle and the Central Coast is "a monster" who has not shown any remorse or accepted responsibility, one victim's mother says.