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Museum bosses are hoping for a comprehensive overhaul of the museum building and its displays in order to maximise its potential as a top visitor destination

How an 1862 Victorian music hall song about a day at the races in Blaydon became an unlikely regional anthem that is still widely sung 160 years later

The £1.1m Newcastle property is on the rental market and boasts some incredible features including five bedrooms as well as a cinema, bar, and home gym

Ryanair has put new flights on sale to Barcelona and Cork, adding to its 19 other destinations currently available from Newcastle International Airport

The online auction operator is offering businesses that attend its quayside event chance to access grants and support

The Scotswood Aggro Boys, a teenage gang from Newcastle's West End, featured in several stories in the Evening Chronicle during the course of 1972

Exactly 80 years after Newcastle was rocked by shells fired from a Japanese submarine, the guns at Fort Scratchley that fired in anger that night have been once again blasted into life - only this time in commemoration, not confrontation.

'Every room has a different view'

Nick Kemp says the charging plans are 'just penalising people', but he doesn't expect to be able to abandon the controversial tolls as Greater Manchester is trying to

Hundreds of frontline service workers have rallied and marched through Newcastle calling on the NSW government to remove a public sector wage cap and give them a pay rise to cover soaring cost-of-living pressures, as an offer announced this week was labelled "totally unacceptable".