The Latest Breaking News from Hunter

Six weeks out from the NSW election, the Hunter is a funding backwater.

Surf Life Savers issued a warning Friday afternoon as a tropical cyclone moves south-east offshore and is expected to bring dangerous surf conditions to the Hunter at the weekend.

Here's you guide to making the most of it.

Lower Hunter storage levels have slipped to 95 per cent in a sign that a drier El Nino weather system may be about to take hold in coming months.

One Nation won't contest sitting MP Dave Layzell's seat, one of the most marginal in NSW.

A community blueprint maps out a future for one of Australia's leading coal mining regions and tackles one of the biggest landscape restoration challenges.

The decline of the coal industry means 17 mines in the New South Wales Hunter Valley will close over the next two decades. More than 130,000 hectares of mining land — nearly two-thirds of the valley floor between Broke and Muswellbrook — will become available for new uses.

Post mining voids covering an area the size of Sydney Harbour could be the lasting environmental legacy of coal mining in the Hunter, a new report has warned.

"We need to get in there and work out what's going to be best for the local community."

A university gambling expert says the average poker machine user in NSW loses $4500 a year.

The Hunter Volunteer Centre will be forced to shut its doors before the end of the month as federal funding for place-based, face-to-face services dries up.