Simon McCarthy

Newcastle Herald sports journalist Barry Toohey has a new podcast dedicated to rugby league and the Newcastle…

For the past week, Williams - a 31 year-old from Beresfield living on government benefits - has been deliveri…

From the spectator seats, rodeo looks like a loud sport. The bull riders often walk out from the chutes to a …

In the middle of the Newcastle Herald newsroom, there's a TV that's never turned off. It shows a realtime lis…

She made history again on Sunday as the first artist to appear twice on Country Music Roll of Renown at Tamwo…

He spent Friday wading through rushing flood waters after a torrential downpour forced the closure of the par…

Drenching rain fell across parts of the Hunter Thursday afternoon as an inland storm cell moved across much o…

The whole family were watching the clock, wondering if Addison would arrive in time for Christmas.

A woman has been rushed to hospital after she was stabbed five times by a man who broke into her home on Chri…

At a time of raging bushfires and unrelenting drought, Newcastle's Anglian Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, t…

TEN days before the tables were set at Foreshore Park, one tireless volunteer was already hard at work helpin…

A woman believed to be aged in her 30s has died after being struck by a bus full of school children in Newcas…

The comedian's attention moves like mercury. When you have it, you feel as if you have all of it. It gathers …

We have grappled with our own mortality for centuries, the psychologist says. "We've been putting memorials…

"She is very much, the little one," her mum, Cecile Le Roux says. Elaine is five years, the youngest of three…

Partway through the interview, Aaron Kearney races out of the soundproof studio. He says he needs to text som…

The 12th and 16th Light Horse (LH) formed up around 1885. In those days, it was the country man's unit. Most …

The ninth planet in our solar system has never been observed, but it may have already been photographed at Si…

Gordana Kotevski was about 50 metres from the safety of her aunt's home in Powell Street, Lake Macquarie when…

IT'S 9pm in the Persian Gulf. The year is 2002. Australian troops based in Kuwait, the small Arab nation nest…

"I think the reason I found it important to tell him [he was about to have a heart attack] was that he was st…

"You're about to have a heart attack and we can't prevent it," the doctor said. "When I walked in, he was say…

"I think the reason I found it important to tell him [he was about to have a heart attack] was that he was st…

In July 1926, The Spectator wrote that there was no English translation for the German loanword schadenfreude…