Beachwatch: Fine and sunny with light winds.Clean waves through out the mornings incoming tide with some okay shorebreaks about. Swell still has some East in it's direction but mainly from the South at 1m.Wind from N/W to S/W tending light S/E during the afternoon. New moon rising for the dawnpatrollers and Cowrie,Cliff and Merewether the best options.Shorebreaks at Nobbys and Newcastle Beach. Up at port Stephens try Samurai and One Mile. Dudley,Redhead,Blacksmiths and Fraser to the South. Better swimming conditions with only slight sweeps on the low tide.The water temps beginning to drop and now on 19C.

Traffic: The road is closed after a truck rolled on Denman Road near Muswellbrook. 

Weather: Sunny in Newcastle (19 degrees), Wallsend, Toronto, Nelson Bay and Raymond Terrace (20 degrees). Similar conditions across the weekend. 

A SECOND Stockton Centre resident moved to a new group home in a nearby street has died in hospital, but the government says it is not changing the way it is handling proceedings. Read more.

It is understood Renew Newcastle has been asked to vacate the former David Jones site as its owner is close to lodging the development application for the multi-million dollar redevelopment of the mall. Read more.

HE jokingly refers to himself as Morisset’s vigilante mower man – bringing swift street justice to the unruly grass and unsightly waist-high weeds that the council can’t, or won’t, control. But Mick Cronan is serious about Morisset getting a fair go. Read more.

PHOTOS: FEW events are etched into Newcastle’s folklore like 1974’s Sygna storm. Read more.

Riders completed the first stage of the Port to Port mountain bike race in Nelson Bay in a little over one hour. Read more.

Emergency services are at the scene of a truck rollover on the Denman Road near Muswellbrook on Friday morning. Read more.

A US state health authority has released new drinking water standards for people exposed to chemicals at the centre of the Williamtown contamination scandal because of concerns about the potential for mothers to pass the contaminants on to infants. Read more.

Former Newcastle Knights star Jarrod Mullen has launched a new career, signing a five-year partnership deal with new property investment company Luxland. Read more.

A YOUNG male hairdressing trainee has been awarded $30,000 after a tribunal accepted he had been sexually harassed and victimised by senior males at a salon, including being told “hairdressers are like racehorses, they need a pat on the bum to go faster”. Read more.

WHEN Murray Lee left Belmont High in 1980, aged 15, he was told he could be a boilermaker or a signwriter like his father. Read more.

Police have warned anyone that has received a phone call where they are asked “can you hear me,” should be concerned and contact authorities immediately. Read more

Regional news

►BALLARAT: Car loads of more than 50 armed police swooped on five properties in Ballarat on Thursday morning, targeting an ice trafficking syndicate with links to Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh and Melton.​ Read more

►NSW: Wagga police have arrested a 20-year-old man in relation to the neglect of a four-month-old baby in Albury. The arrest follows an investigation into the welfare of three children aged seven-years and under, which began in March. Read more

►NSW: Drug and alcohol testing in shearing sheds has been proposed in an effort to tackle widespread reports of methamphetamine, or “ice”, abuse in the Australian wool industry. Read more

►VICTORIA: The head of the Country Fire Authority has hit out at claims being made in automated phone calls warning a government shake-up of the state’s fire services will put families at risk as “irresponsible”. Read more

►NSW: Kobi Robbs is a little girl who lives life to the fullest. Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy Quadriplegia Spasticity at 11 months of age, Kobi has become an inspiration to her family and friends, enduring the debilitating condition with little complaint and a huge smile on her face. Read more

►TASMANIA: Find out who the winners and losers were from the Tasmanian state budget on Thursday. Read more

►SA: After founding the Port Pirie Regional Gymnastics Academy in 2002 with substantial donations from the community – including two foam training blocks and a specialty trampoline – head coach Garry Nayda has seen it all. And now he believes the club is set to see a “total revolution”, thanks to the Port Pirie Regional Council’s endorsement of the Sports Precinct project. Read more

►QUEENSLAND: Shop Till I Drop operator Leanne Kum Sing has officially launched her home shopping service at Mount Isa Plaza on Saturday. Ms Kum Sing started the business earlier this year because she saw a need in the Mount Isa community for a home delivery service. Read more​

National news

►Australia is set to stumble the moment it crosses the finish line. The March quarter national accounts due for release on June 7 were expected to show Australia had caught up to Holland, which holds the record for the longest period of near-continuous economic growth, clocking up 103 quarters without a recession. Read more

►Amid the cloud of excuses and challenges raised by the inquest into the Lindt Cafe siege, there was one refreshing response. In simple language, the newly appointed NSW Police commissioner, Mick Fuller, solemnly admitted that officers should have stormed the Martin Place building earlier than they did. Read more

►CAMBODIA: He has been convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in jail over the deaths of at least 1.7 million people. Read more

►AMERICA: US president Donald Trump has promised to identify and prosecute "to the fullest extent of the law" the intelligence officials who leaked sensitive information from the Manchester bombing investigation. Read more

A hospital volunteer has been recognised for her contribution to Bendigo Health and the wider community with a ministerial award.

Gabby Gamble was this week presented with a Victorian Minister for Health Volunteer Award for her outstanding achievement as a volunteer, in the area of supporting diversity. Read more