Today is Thursday, April 28, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, an Anzac Day long-weekend crackdown showed that too many motorists are continuing to take dangerous risks on the state's roads, police say.

Today is Thursday, April 27, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, The number of COVID-19 related deaths in the Hunter this year have shadowed the first two years of the pandemic combined, and it is still only April.

Today is Friday, April 22, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, the NSW Land and Environment Court (LEC) has ordered a Lane Cove-based company to pay fines totalling more than $250,000 for a series of offences that damaged environmentally sensitive land next to a sanctuary zone of the Great Lakes Marine Park.

Today is Thursday, April 21, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a man accused of killing a toddler at Singleton more than 17 years ago will plead not guilty and face a trial in Newcastle District Court.

Today is Wednesday, April 20, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, A driver has been air-lifted to a Sydney hospital after a serious crash at Port Stephens in the early hours of Tuesday.

Today is Thursday, April 14, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a husband and wife accused of using the dark web to facilitate the purchase of illegal drugs and launder money have been refused bail in Belmont Local Court.

Today is Wednesday, April 13, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, outspoken coalminer and former Pauline Hanson's One Nation candidate Stuart Bonds has nominated again for the seat of Hunter, vacated at the May 21 federal election by the retirement of long-term Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon.

Today is Tuesday, April 12, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, a world-first trial using Victorian firefighters has found a way to reduce blood levels of potentially harmful chemicals often present in fire-fighting foams.

Today is Saturday, April 9, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, AGL would be required to give an extra 18months notice of its intention to close Bayswater Power Station under a rule change proposed by the federal government.

Today is Friday, April 8, 2022 and this is your daily news briefing from The Newcastle Herald. In today’s top stories, Scott Morrison has said his team will "see what we can do" to address the concerns of an angry punter at an Edgeworth drinking hole Wednesday night.