Today is June 1, 2022, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The State Emergency Service is preparing for the possibility of another long night as wild winds up to 90km/h continue to hammer many parts of NSW, with just over half the calls for help across the state coming from the Hunter and Central Coast since Monday evening.

Today is Saturday, May 31, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, AGL Energy has ditched plans to split the company into two after strong opposition by major investor Mike Cannon-Brookes and two weeks before shareholders were due to vote on the proposal.

Today is Friday, May 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a councillor has moved to have Port Stephens mayor Ryan Palmer taken off the Newcastle Airport board after a heated debate revealed he gains a personal tax benefit from the $50,000 fee he is paid.

Today is Thursday, May 26, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the mother of a teenage girl snatched from a suburban Lake Macquarie street almost three decades ago says going so long without answers about the fate of her daughter has been like living with a "terminal illness".

Today is Wednesday, May 25, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, NSW could face a shortage of police officers as recruits give up or move interstate because it's too expensive to become a cop, the president of the state's police union says.

Today is Tuesday, May 24, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Former treasurer Josh Frydenberg has conceded the seat of Kooyong following Saturday's election.

Today is Saturday, May 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a dead diver found in the Newcastle port with $20 million of cocaine has been named as Brazilian national Bruno Borges.

Today is Friday, May 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has doubled down on the Coalition government's stance to not overturn a law that bans the territories from legislating on voluntary assisted dying.

Today is Thursday, May 19, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man who strangled his 18-year-old girlfriend to death at Metford in 2020 was in a psychotic state and had formed the belief she was a "demon" who was "sucking the life out of him", a jury has heard.

Today is Wednesday, May 18, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a truck driver who was caught with drugs in his system for a second time, after smoking three "cones" at lunchtime on October 29, has been ordered off the roads for six months.