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Warren Jarvis from Cassilis, in central west New South Wales, lost his house and his stock when bushfires went through on Sunday.
Topics: bushfire, cassilis-2329, nsw
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An Upper Hunter community is holding a public meeting to address what it believes is a spike in crime in the area.
Topics: police, crime, merriwa-2329, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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An inquest is due to get underway today into a fatal Upper Hunter plane crash six years ago.
Topics: courts-and-trials, air-and-space, cassilis-2329, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300
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The New South Wales Greens say a massive reduction in alternative energy investment in Australia last year is evidence that Federal Government policy is costing jobs in the Hunter Valley.
Topics: greens, federal---state-issues, alternative-energy, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300, cassilis-2329
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A Cessnock man had been refused bail charged over a firearms robbery on a Hunter Valley property.
Topics: crime, police, armed-robbery, cessnock-2325, cassilis-2329
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A proposed wind farm, near Merriwa does not sit well with a big mining company, worried about coal reserves being sterilised by a transmission line.
Topics: wind-energy, mining-industry, cassilis-2329, merriwa-2329, newcastle-2300
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Upper Hunter Shire Council has called on the NSW Government to impose a number of conditions on a proposed billion dollar wind farm near Cassilis.
Topics: wind-energy, cassilis-2329, merriwa-2329, newcastle-2300
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Three new directors elected to the Hunter Local Land Services are all from the Upper Hunter.
Topics: agricultural-policy, agribusiness, merriwa-2329, cassilis-2329, bunnan-2337
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James Armstrong says the Mega Merino and the Cassilis Park studs run in tandem.
Topics: sheep-production, livestock, wool, agricultural-crops, dubbo-2830, cassilis-2329
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| UpdatedFarmers are under constant pressure to be more profitable, to maximise their returns and reduce their inputs and risk but sometimes to do that, they have make some big changes.
Topics: wool, agricultural-crops, sheep-production, livestock, agricultural-marketing, agribusiness, dubbo-2830, cassilis-2329, south-africa
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A manslaughter charge has been withdrawn against a Sydney real estate auctioneer in relation to an Upper Hunter plane crash four years ago.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, courts-and-trials, newcastle-2300, cassilis-2329, coolah-2843, mudgee-2850, glen-innes-2370, muswellbrook-2333
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The State Opposition says the O'Farrell Government's planning guidelines for wind farms is putting potential investment in the Hunter at risk.
Topics: wind-energy, newcastle-2300, merriwa-2329, cassilis-2329
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WorkCover says its investigations into a silo collapse that killed a man on his Upper Hunter property are continuing.
Topics: cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedThe company proposing a windfarm for the Liverpool Range in the Upper Hunter says the project could involve more than 500 turbines.
Topics: wind-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, energy, cassilis-2329, coolah-2843, muswellbrook-2333, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedWith the Hunter Valley looking set to lose its status as Labor Party heartland at tomorrow's state poll, the Nationals are tipped to safely hold onto the seat of Upper Hunter.
Topics: elections, government-and-politics, muswellbrook-2333, australia, nsw, cassilis-2329, dungog-2420, gloucester-2422, merriwa-2329, singleton-2330
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An energy development firm has outlined plans for a major new wind farm in the Upper Hunter.
Topics: alternative-energy, environment, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, rural, coolah-2843, australia, nsw, cassilis-2329
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Upper Hunter Council, farmers and small business now have access to State Government assistance to help deal with the impacts of recent flood damage.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, agribusiness, rural, crop-harvesting, weeds, weather, rainfall, merriwa-2329, australia, nsw, cassilis-2329
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Efforts to prevent the predicted locust plague are officially starting with the first aerial spraying getting underway in the state's Far West.
Topics: rural, baldry-2867, bathurst-2795, bedgerebong-2871, bendick-murrell-2803, bigga-2583, bimbi-2810, black-springs-2787, blayney-2799, bogan-gate-2876, bourke-2840, bumbaldry-2794, burren-junction-2386, burrinjuck-2582, byrock-2831, canowindra-2804, capertee-2846, captains-flat-2623, carcoar-2791, carrathool-2711, cassilis-2329, central-tilba-2546, charbon-2848
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A Senate inquiry has been told an Upper Hunter school was charged more than double for a substandard toilet block, funded by the Commonwealth's school building program.
Topics: schools, building-and-construction, programs-and-initiatives, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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Plans are being stepped up for a commercial kangaroo cull in the New South Wales Upper Hunter.
Topics: pest-management, animals, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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A new bushfire risk management plan is being prepared for parts of the Upper Hunter.
Topics: bushfire, environmental-management, merriwa-2329, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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| UpdatedUpper Hunter residents are being reassured they will not be worse off with a change in mobile network coverage from next week.
Topics: telecommunications, merriwa-2329, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300
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A woman killed in a car accident at Cassilis near Coolah yesterday afternoon has been identified as a 33-year-old central coast woman.
Topics: road, death, cassilis-2329, dubbo-2830, orange-2800
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The Cassilis community has unanimously voted to sever ties with the newly proclaimed Mudgee-based Mid-Western Regional Council and instead join the Upper Hunter Shire.
Topics: local-government, cassilis-2329, newcastle-2300, orange-2800
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Cudal residents, near Orange, are worried about the future of the town's local council office and depot if NSW Government plans to restructure local government go ahead.
Topics: local-government, cudal-2864, bathurst-2795, cassilis-2329, ulan-2850