Your local guide to the NSW election and other top stories

Your local guide to the NSW election

1233 ABC Newcastle will have comprehensive coverage of the 2015 NSW election. Throughout the day online, ABC News will provide coverage of the poll. On the radio from 6pm, through 1233AM, will be statewide coverage. Aaron Kearney will present ... >> view original

Meet Newcastle's 2015 State Election Candidates

The seat of Newcastle was once a Labor stronghold but it was swept up by the statewide swing to the Liberal party in 2011. Former Labor MP Jodie McKay discovered in the ICAC witness box that her party colleagues Joe Tripodi and Eric Roozendaal had ... >> view original

NSW election: The Hunter comes out to vote | Photos

Weather. Your 4-day local weather forecast · Newcastle Herald. Saturday March 28, 2015. News. Larger / SmallerNight Mode. NSW election 2015: The Hunter comes out to vote. March 28, 2015, 9:30 a.m.. PHOTOS: UPDATE: Who will win the Hunter? All the ... >> view original

Meet Wallsend's 2015 State Election Candidates

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Sixty years as queen of the court

... and moved through the ranks to eventually play for New South Wales. When her playing days drew to a close, she umpired matches across the nation, and then turned to coaching. At the age of 19, Dell was scouted by the Newcastle Netball Association's ... >> view original

NSW State Election 2015: The train that divides Newcastle

The first time Joan Dawson saw a train she was seven years old. It was a steam train she says, "it trundled on from Dungog to Newcastle". Four years later she first set foot upon the "Newcastle Flyer," the train that ran between Sydney and Newcastle ... >> view original

NSW state election 2015: Seat of Sydney

For an independent contesting one of the state's tightest seats, Alex Greenwich cut a relaxed-looking figure while visiting inner city polling places on Saturday. See your ad here. Despite a redistribution cutting his 6 per cent margin to a wafer thin ... >> view original

Final segments of cliff-top Memorial Walk installed

It's been years in the making, but the finishing line is well and truly in sight for the people tasked with constructing the Anzac Memorial Walk linking Newcastle's Strezlecki Lookout to Bar Beach. Under the cover of darkness on Monday night, heavy ... >> view original

Meet Charlestown's 2015 State Election Candidates

The electorate is the on the border between Newcastle and Lake Macquarie City Councils and covers the suburbs of Adamstown, Charlestown, Kahibah, Kotara, Garden Suburb, Gateshead, Warners Bay, Eleebana, Tingara Heights, Windale, Dudley and ... >> view original

Airline reform needed after Germanwings crash: local expert

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