Chart a course through the night sky - Disney On Ice is coming to Newcastle Entertainment Centre this July, and it promises to be the most spectacular show yet.

There’s a quiet assumption woven into modern fame: if you step into the spotlight, you surrender something fundamental. Privacy, yes, but also basic respect. It’s dressed up in a shrug and a cliché: “It’s the price of fame.”

One of the most beloved operas ever written is coming to Newcastle, as Opera Hunter presents a full-scale production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, featuring a stellar cast of local and acclaimed performers accompanied by the Lake Mac Philharmonic Orchestra.

The Escadia Newcastle Northstars have kicked off the season in style, claiming a thrilling home victory on Saturday before backing it up with a win on the road on Sunday.

Beautiful one day, blown out the next – such was the topsy turvy world of the 2025-2026 Lake Macquarie beach season.

City of Newcastle is planning to deliver 274 projects and forecasting a fifth consecutive surplus as it releases its draft Budget for the upcoming financial year.

The Hunter’s unemployment rate climbed from 4.2 to 4.8 per cent in March, as a wave of new jobseekers flooded the market in the face of rising cost-of-living pressures.

The secret is well and truly out – one of the Hunter Region’s best spots for bushwalking and mountain biking has made it to the top 10 list of the most popular national parks and reserves in NSW.

One of Maitland’s busiest roads is set for a major upgrade, with over $14 million worth of improvements getting underway next month along Haussman Drive, Thornton.

Newcastle welcomed a new Lord Mayor on Saturday, 18 April 2026, as independent candidate Gavin Morris swept to a landslide victory in the City of Newcastle's lord mayoral by-election.

On Wednesday 29th April 2026, the Salvation Army in the Hunter is launching this year’s appeal, urging the local community to get involved in raising vital funds to continue supporting the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in our region.

A new chapter in the history of Shepherds Hill Cottage is one step closer, with final touches underway to transform the 130-year-old building into a café with Newcastle’s most stunning views.

Maitland libraries are offering front-row seats to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, streaming world-class authors live from Sydney straight to local libraries from Thursday 21 May with a final special event at Maitland Town Hall on Saturday 23 May.

There’s something quietly extraordinary about a festival that not only survives but thrives - growing year after year without losing its soul. In a landscape where even major events have fallen by the wayside, The Gum Ball has done the opposite. It has deepened, expanded, and embedded itself into the cultural fabric of regional New South Wales, located in the bush, on the property of Dashville in Lower Belford.

There's a question that has delighted children for more than two decades, and this July it's coming to life on stage right here in Newcastle. Where is the Green Sheep? - the iconic picture book by Mem Fox and illustrator Judy Horacek - is being adapted for the very first time as a full theatrical production, and Civic Theatre Newcastle is one of the first stops on its Australian journey.