What's making news today? 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 ...

More than 10,000 people have fled their homes in southwestern France as a ‌rapidly spreading wildfire scorched through 2000 ...

Newcastle's growing obsession with country clothing has lured another big brand.

Range of low-cost Toyota Prado alternatives grow with Chery's new Chinese models, but what do we know about the chunky ...

Volkswagen has long resisted the urge to add conventional, Toyota-style hybrid power to its cars, but not anymore. The German ...

The former head of a Port Stephens rehab centre wrote glowing letters about three clients, including disgraced media ...

The boss of a major dealer group has told CarsGuide how competing forces and the state of the economy is taking its toll on ...

"All I did was phone calls, emails, annoying people. If you don't ask, you just don't get. You've just got to be a little bit persistent, there's been help from a lot of other people, it's not just me ...

Josh Leeson is a news and features journalist, who focuses on Lake Macquarie, politics and entertainment at the Newcastle Herald. He first joined the masthead in 2008 after stints ...

A MAN accused of fleeing the scene of a crash that killed a 75-year-old woman near Greta on Monday remains in hospital under ...

A young cattle dog abandoned in bushland near Dungog is undergoing major surgery this week after an eight-week ordeal.

A knife-wielding 20-year-old who fatally attacked ‌a man and appeared to hold others hostage ‌in a bank in the southern German city of Regensburg has been detained, local media and police say. The ...