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| UpdatedCooler weather has helped New South Wales firefighters battling blazes near Kempsey and in the Hunter Valley and Port Stephens region but fears soaring temperatures and strong winds may cause fires to flare.
Topics: bushfire, disasters-and-accidents, emergency-planning, fires, kundabung-2441, nsw, kitchener-2325, cessnock-2325, kearsley-2325, karuah-2324, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFires continue to burn in New South Wales near Kempsey and in the Hunter Valley and Port Stephens regions, with crews battling changing conditions through Monday.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, bushfire, fires, emergency-planning, kundabung-2441, kitchener-2325, cessnock-2325, nsw, sydney-2000, karuah-2324, kearsley-2325
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| UpdatedEasing weather conditions have helped fire crews in the New South Wales Hunter Valley gain the upper hand in the battle against a blaze threatening homes near Cessnock.
Topics: bushfire, fires, emergency-incidents, cessnock-2325, kearsley-2325, aberdare-2325, raymond-terrace-2324, newcastle-2300
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A man who was named in a Greyhound Racing New South Wales inquiry will face court next month, charged with firearms offences.
Topics: animal-welfare, crime, police, cessnock-2325, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedThe family of Indigenous woman Rebecca Maher is desperately seeking answers about how their daughter died in NSW police custody, after they sighted a report saying no illegal drugs or alcohol were found in her system.
Topics: black-deaths-in-custody, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, aboriginal, police, maitland-2320, nsw, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedBulk and cleanskin wine targeted for tax reform, with winemakers calling for the full $500,000 rebate for eligible wineries to remain.
Topics: viticulture, tax, sydney-2000, cessnock-2325, launceston-7250, mudgee-2850
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| UpdatedA Catholic priest who sexually assaulted boys during wrestling bouts is sentenced to a minimum of five years and four months in jail after being convicted of 44 child sex offences against six victims.
Topics: sexual-offences, catholic, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, crime, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325, maitland-2320, nsw
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| UpdatedNew South Wales records its first Indigenous death in a police cell in 16 years, with the Aboriginal Legal Service criticising police for a "procedural failure".
Topics: community-and-society, death, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, black-deaths-in-custody, law-crime-and-justice, maitland-2320, australia, cessnock-2325, nsw
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| UpdatedA Hunter Valley council says a development application for a controversial mosque complies with relevant planning provisions.
Topics: urban-development-and-planning, local-government, islam, cessnock-2325, kurri-kurri-2327, maitland-2320
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government says a report detailing the apparent brutal killing of about 100 greyhounds in the Hunter Valley formed part of its decision to close down the industry.
Topics: animal-welfare, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300
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Police launch an investigation after a woman dies while in custody at a police station in the NSW Hunter region.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, cessnock-2325, maitland-2320, newcastle-2300, nsw
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A man is sentenced to community service for kicking a pet Chihuahua to death in the Hunter Valley.
Topics: animal-welfare, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedA deliberately lit fire at a prison in New South Wales' Hunter Valley leaves two inmates with serious burns and seven officers requiring treatment for smoke inhalation.
Topics: fires, prisons-and-punishment, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300, nsw
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The New South Wales Government has been accused of pork barrelling in a marginal Federal electorate and ignoring the Hunter Valley on flying fox funding.
Topics: endangered-and-protected-species, states-and-territories, local-government, cessnock-2325, raymond-terrace-2324, blackalls-park-2283, singleton-2330
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| UpdatedThe seat of Paterson in the NSW Hunter region is set to be one of the state's key marginal electorates in the July 2 election, with the mining downturn and the lack of health facilities already emerging as leading issues.
Topics: federal-elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, regional, nelson-bay-2315, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325, bulga-2330
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| UpdatedThere was a time when tens of thousands of Australians regularly flocked to "the trots", but harness racing is on the wane.
Topics: harness-racing, sport, community-and-society, nsw, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedFigures reveal there were more than 1600 self-harm incidents by prisoners in New South Wales jails, in the past two years.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, mental-health, states-and-territories, suicide, silverwater-2128, nsw, cessnock-2325, lithgow-2790
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| UpdatedA teenager is killed and another is in a critical condition after an accident on Sydney's M2 motorway.
Topics: denman-2328, sydney-2000, seven-hills-2147, cessnock-2325, singleton-2330
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| UpdatedNew South Wales police are being urged to adopt restrictions on pursuits in the wake of the death of a Hunter Valley officer.
Topics: police, traffic-offences, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedA man disqualified from driving for life has faced court over a police pursuit that led to the death of a sergeant in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.
Topics: courts-and-trials, police, death, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300, maitland-2320
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| UpdatedA police sergeant killed in a Hunter Valley crash while on his way to assist colleagues is remembered by Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione as one of the force's finest.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, road, police, nsw, cessnock-2325, nelson-bay-2315
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| UpdatedAdelaide's Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson is launching another bid to have a charge of concealing child sexual abuse thrown out of court.
Topics: child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, east-maitland-2323, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325
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| UpdatedThe Catholic bishop of Maitland-Newcastle Bill Wright says Cardinal George Pell's evidence to the Royal Commission completes a 'disturbing picture' of how the church dealt with child sexual abuse.
Topics: royal-commissions, catholic, child-abuse, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300, cessnock-2325, muswellbrook-2333
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| UpdatedYancoal says it will be looking to redeploy workers from its Donaldson Abel mine after announcing it will be placed into care and maintenance.
Topics: coal, work, unions, cessnock-2325, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedJoel Fitzgibbon will be installed as the Labor candidate for the redrawn Federal seat of Hunter, avoiding a vote by local rank and file members of the party.
Topics: federal-parliament, federal-government, federal-elections, alp, cardiff-2285, cessnock-2325, morisset-2264, charlestown-2290, raymond-terrace-2324, maitland-2320