Cessnock
MP wrote in support of 'training mine'
Linton Besser The disgraced former resources minister Ian Macdonald personally asked his predecessor in the portfolio, the then Cessnock MP Kerry Hickey, to write him a letter supporting a proposal for a so-called...
Minister asked MP to write mine letter
Linton Besser The disgraced former resources minister Ian Macdonald personally asked his predecessor in the portfolio, the then Cessnock MP Kerry Hickey, to write him a letter supporting a proposal for a so-called...
Fiery crash: choppers to be grounded unless fuel tanks changed
Nick Ralston All helicopters similar to those involved in a fiery crash that killed four retired scientists will be grounded at the end of the month unless vital changes are made to their fuel tanks.
Nationals leader hoping for a long cabinet shelf life
Sean Nicholls The shelf life of Australia's most senior politicians is often limited, but few are more perishable than those who lead the National Party in government.
Secretary resigns
Melissa Davey The secretary of the NSW Treasury, Michael Schur, is the latest casualty of the change of government.
Costa family home invasion: 'I thought my children would be stabbed to death'
Dan Proudman YESTERDAY, for 15 minutes, Deborah Costa was bound inside her family's isolated homestead, fearing for the lives of her children, when the actions of her four-year-old daughter gave her hope.
I feared I would be stabbed and raped: Costa's wife tells of home invasion ordeal
Deborah Costa's greatest fear was that a masked home invader would rape her or stab her and her children to death.
Burney replaces Tebbutt as deputy
Alexandra Smith State Politics THE former community services minister Linda Burney will be elected NSW Labor's deputy leader today, and the former police minister Michael Daley will be shadow treasurer in the reduced shadow...
Electoral tsunami set to sweep ministers away
Brian Robins THE latest Herald/Nielsen opinion poll indicates the swing against the Labor Party will be so great that its plans to renew and rebuild its parliamentary party will be in tatters after next month's...
Huge damages claim, voter anger haunt state after power sale
Brian Robins A DAMAGES claim of up to several hundred million dollars could further erode any earnings from the botched sale of part of the state-owned electricity assets.
Falling tree kills man in bushfire
Erik Jensen OTHER firefighters worked desperately to free John Garland from the tree pinning him to the ground. A rescue helicopter was called. But by the time it arrived it was too late.
Two killed in helicopter crash
Erik Jensen Two men are dead and another is badly burnt after a helicopter crash in the Hunter Valley.
Two dead as chopper explodes
Georgina Robinson Two men have been killed and a pilot badly injured after a helicopter crashed and exploded in the NSW Hunter Valley this morning.
We'll give you stimulus - parents stage a demo over the demountable
Alison Branley PARENTS were so incensed by NSW Education Department plans to remove a demountable from their Hunter Valley public school that they threatened to chain it down.
Fresh Huntlee battles look set for court
Kelsey Munro THE state's biggest single housing development is likely to head back to court again despite the Planning Minister's pre-Christmas approval which paved the way for a 1700 hectare Hunter Valley bush...
Socialist shakedown in lacklustre Labor
Alex Mitchell IT HAS become a cliche to ridicule Labor MPs who are retiring before the next state election as rats leaving a sinking ship.
Beamer third MP to go in two weeks
Heath Aston DIANE BEAMER has become the latest Labor MP to quit politics ahead of the state election.
$1.5b housing project will be state's biggest
Josephine Tovey THE state's largest housing development, estimated to cost $1.5 billion over the next 20 years, will create a Hunter Valley town the size of Lithgow, new plans show.
Campbell retires as Labor looks to axe long-serving MPs
Louise Hall and Nicole Hasham A SENIOR transport bureaucrat and former chief-of-staff to David Campbell is shaping up as the MP's successor in the Labor stronghold of Keira, in the Illawarra.
Minister removes council authority
Harvey Grennan CESSNOCK CITY COUNCIL has been stripped of its powers to determine development applications worth more than $1 million after it refused a ministerial direction alleged to be illegal.
