News, Weather, Traffic And Travel From Across Newcastle

Newcastle Herald brings you live updates from breaking news incidents, weather, traffic and travel from across Newcastle, the Hunter Region and beyond. Stay up-to-date with what’s going on.

What’s making news today? Mould, cover-ups and corruption inquiry set to call for Mater PPP to end, Westpac rescue helicopter contract on the line amid workplace safety investigation, NAPLAN results: here’s how students fared in the test this year.

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Looking for more local content? There are calls for change at local sports ground after a player sliced their arm open on a field fence. An abandoned cattle dog has a walked 40km loop for weeks, before rescuers later found a bullet in his back, and sadly a Motorcyclist has been killed in crash on a Hunter forest fire trail.

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