"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 ...

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 ...

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

How much longer will you put up with this joker?

"Last week we let you down, and I am sorry for that," wrote Telstra's CEO, Vicki Brady, as she served up a familiar stew of turgid, tick-all-the-boxes corporate jargon reeking of insincerity.

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 ...

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 ...

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

The Mitsubishi Pajero has got an official launch window, with the brand promising the model will make its global debut in the Japanese autumn, so between September and November this year. That sets ...