HUNTER EVENTS UPDATE: The Prime Minister announced yesterday that non-essential, organised, gatherings of more than 500 people will be advised against from MONDAY in order to control the spread of COVID-19. Hunter health officials say the response to containing the coronavirus has so far been...
A Ban on public gatherings will not affect tomorrows Wine Machine concert in the Hunter Valley, as the ban comes into effect on Monday. The general advice is not to attend if you have flu-like symptoms or if your worried you might contract COVID-19 do...
COVID-19 UPDATE FROM: Central Coast Health CENTRAL COAST NSW COVID-19 UPDATE | We are providing care and support to a Central Coast female in her 30s who has been diagnosed with COVID-19. Health staff are undertaking daily wellness checks while she is in isolation at...
Coronavirus update – NSW Statistics: An additional 14 cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in NSW to 92. Confirmed cases: 92 Cases under investigation: 1,928 Cases tested and excluded: 14,66 Total: 16,685 NSW Health says the new cases...
Flight Centre has announced they will shutdown 100 stores across the country it’s unclear how many jobs will be lost. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Flight Centre Australia says the “virus’s spread and increased travel restrictions mean demand is softening significantly and...
CHANGES TO VISITING THE NICU AT JOHN HUNTER CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL From today as a precautionary response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the NICU at the Children’s Hospital in Newcastle will be restricting visitors to best protect the very sick and premature babies the NICU is caring...
The Australian GP has been cancelled at the last minute due to COVID-19 fears as one Mclaren team member tests positive. There was confusion this morning as overseas media we’re reporting the event had been cancelled, but F1 Officials had been silent. The Victorian premiere...
Police at Hunter Valley Police District are requesting information into the wherabouts of a vehicle stolen about 3am on 13th March 2020 from a Business in Cessnock. The vehicle a Limited Edition, Black Chrysler 300 SRT Pacer was driven out of the roller door of...
NSW Health has just released an update on the number of cases and what’s disturbing is 8 of the 13 new cases are spread through the community with no travel history. Community spread is now well and truly upon us because our Govt were reactive...
Police are appealing for public assistance after an armed robbery in the Hunter region on Sunday Night About 8.45pm (Sunday 8 March 2020), a man entered a fast food restaurant on Lawes Street, East Maitland, armed with a baseball bat. The man threatened an employee...
Police are appealing for public assistance after a Muswellbrook home was targeted in two suspicious blazes in the past week. About 4.30am on Saturday 7 March 2020, NSW Fire and Rescue crews were called to a home on Bligh Street, Muswellbrook, after reports the front...
Aspect Hunter has announced a new Satellite class for students on the Autism Spectrum, this is a massive win for the country as options are very limited for those students on the Spectrum. Aspect is seeking enrollments of infant students around the Muswellbrook area, if...
An additional eight cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed as at 7am 10 March 2020 bringing the total number of confirmed cases in NSW to 55. Confirmed cases: 55* Cases under investigation: 618 Cases tested and excluded: 8361 *Note: 1 is a resident of Victoria...
Last night Hunter New England Health confirmed that there were providing care for elderly man in his seventies who has contracted COVID-19 and is being cared for in home in an unknown location. Hunter New England Health have not provided his location or places this...
Hunter New England Local Health District is providing care and support to one of the previously announced COVID-19 cases, a male in his 70s who recently returned from Italy. Health staff are undertaking daily wellness checks while he is in isolation at home and he...
An additional seven cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed as at 2pm today bringing the total number of confirmed cases in NSW to 47. Confirmed case: 47 Cases under investigation: 476 Cases tested and excluded: 7848 These figures refer to people who are in NSW...
A man has died following a crash in the state’s Hunter region yesterday. About 12.40pm (Sunday 8 March 2020), emergency services were called to Tomago Road, Tomago, after reports a Mitsubishi ASX had crashed into a tree after colliding with an Izuzu D-Max. The Mitsubishi...
Emergency services were called to yet another house fire on Francis St Cessnock around 9pm last night, upon arrival the house was alight and firefighter got work to put out the flames. This is the 3rd house fire on Francis St Cessnock in recent times....
57 YEAR OLD MALE CHARGED HIGH RANGE PCA – CHARLESTOWN Around 6pm Sunday 8 March quick thinking residents of Charlestown called police about a male slumped behind the wheel of a motor vehicle in the middle of the road in Jergi Close, Charlestown. Police responded...
Over the weekend someone with a half a brain decided it was a good idea to tear up the soccer fields at Lambton by driving their vehicle erratically on the soccer fields. MP Sonya Hornery is angry over the situation as groundskeepers have put in...