23/07/2008 | Students across Maitland will get an early start to National Tree Day this week.
23/07/2008 | Homemakers are queuing up to move into Maitland's newest suburb.
Waterford Estate, expected to become Chisholm's first land release, is attracting a high level of attention, with up to 25 people registering their interest in land on a website each week.
23/07/2008 | A report in to the death of a Greta signal electrician killed by a train last year has made several recommendations designed to ensure no rail worker suffers the same fate.
23/07/2008 | Ambulance officers want one of their own to run the NSW service to help deal with a critical staff shortage and a long-term bullying problem, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
23/07/2008 | A Thornton community meeting convened to address violent crime and vandalism was drawn in to a political storm yesterday.
23/07/2008 | Fifteen children were uninjured when two buses collided late yesterday at 4pm.
One bus ran into the rear of another heading west along the New England Highway at the High Street intersection.
23/07/2008 | She may share the same moniker with a certain Brit It girl but Aberglasslyn’s own little Sienna Liva has brought a touch of glamour to the ‘burbs.
At four-and-a-half months, Sienna is a natural in front of the camera – not surprising given her increasingly popular name.
23/07/2008 | Mystery surrounds the roadside memorial for a 16-year-old girl who was killed in a car accident on Raymond Terrace Road at Thornton 12 years ago.
The simple cross for Jodi Joy Thomas has stood on the side of the road since the two-car accident on March 9, 1996, in which the Raymond Terrace girl was killed instantly.
23/07/2008 | When Abby Marshall read in a letter she was the winner of the Hunter Regional Trainee of the Year 2008 in Business Certificate 2, she could not believe the words on the page.
22/07/2008 | More housing development mooted for Largs could raise the profile of the tiny township.
22/07/2008 | When Kylie Morris embarked on a campaign to secure financial support for her sick and defenceless little boy her fight was not a selfish one.
22/07/2008 | Maitland City Council's annual diesel bill blew out by $166,000 between 2006-07 and 2007-08.
22/07/2008 | Six units from the Hunter SES Region have been given eight marine Garmin GPS units in an $8,000 donation for use in flood response operations.
22/07/2008 | Jake Jongerden is the human face of an industry on the brink of crisis.
The 22-year-old started his own business as a transport operator 18 months ago but is now staring down the barrel of financial ruin.
22/07/2008 | The Bard's farcical fable of a fat knight and his fantastical follies is once again about to come to life.
Acted by members of Maitland's Reamus Youth Theatre group, Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor will take the stage in coming weeks.
22/07/2008 | New suburbs and estates are being identified as Maitland City Council looks for new home sites for a projected population of more than 80,000 in 2020.
Farley, Maitland Vale, Greta and Mt Harris (near Bolwarra) are investigated in the 2008 draft edition of the Maitland Settlement Strategy that predicts demand for land in Maitland will not slacken in the life of the document.
22/07/2008 | A man who has sold Maitland's advantages for most of the past decade will turn his hand to selling the benefits of local councils.
21/07/2008 | The art of chivalry has enjoyed a resurgence with Maitland children embracing this element of medieval culture during the Hunter Valley Arms and Militia Fair on the weekend.
21/07/2008 | Hunter residents may feel the pinch from Tillegra Dam as early as next July after the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal said the development could cause a jump in the price of water bills.
21/07/2008 | Presentations of influenza-like illnesses to GPs rose in May and June indicating that winter-related bacterial and viral infections have started in Australia.