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Sydney-based Reklaw Hotels has joined the rush of publicans and investors seeing good opportunities in regional hospitality markets, buying the Duke of Wellington Hotel in Newcastle, NSW, for $16 million.

His body might still be in Newcastle while his head is already in the south of France… but a move to Catalans is still a long way off happening.

Bates Smart has revised its design for two residential towers at the former Store site at 854 Hunter Street in Newcastle’s west end.

Former Newcastle star Jarrod Mullen is hoping to make an NRL return in 2022 after serving a four-year WADA ban. Mullen, now 34, missed the 2017, ’18, ’19 and ’20 seasons serving the ban before making a return in 2021 in the Queensland Cup with the Sunshine Coast Falcons.

The NSW Rugby League has announced plans to conduct a wide-ranging review of competitions and pathways in the Newcastle/Hunter region and the Central Coast region with a view to providing a vision and plan for those competitions and pathways for the next five-year period.

All aboard! Join us for a bus tour around the western side of Lake Macquarie with local historian Ed Tonks (OAM).

Duker's Diesel was purchased as a therapy dog for his owner's six-year-old son but tonight will contest the $15,000 to the winner final of the Maitland Future Stars. Owner-trainer Jennifer Chandler explained: "Our little boy Isaac was terrified of dogs so to overcome that my husband Jordan and I took …

Steve Hunt’s Hunt Hospitality has sold the Duke of Wellington in Newcastle to the newly-formed Reklaw Hotels group.

Speculation that Wests Tigers half Luke Brooks would leave to link up with the Newcastle Knights has been firmly quashed by the club. This morning the club issued a strong statement from former coach and new director of football Tim Sheens allaying any concerns Brooks was moving on.

Ever since Newcastle United’s takeover by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment fund earlier this month, there’s been endless coverage of the club. The Magpies, now officially the world’s richest football club by some distance,