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LIFT OFF: Just as a jet liner in the distance climbs into the Sydney skyline, the Australian team's F50 catamaran gets up and about on the harbour during training on Wednesday. Picture: Supplied

Watch local Kyle Langford and the Aussie SailGP team on Sydney Harbour

Skill: Craig Johnston at Middlesbrough, where he played before signing for Liverpool.

Craig Johnston - 'the Boy from Boolaroo' - goes back to his roots

Damon Cronshaw

POWER GAME: Toronto's Josh Westwood struck nine fours and two sixes in his innings of 59 against Hamwicks on Saturday. Picture: Marine Neil.

Westwood leads in lost cricket cause for Toronto

David Stewart

LIFT OFF: Just as a jet liner in the distance climbs into the Sydney skyline, the Australian team's F50 catamaran gets up and about on the harbour during training on Wednesday. Picture: Supplied

Watch local Kyle Langford and the Aussie SailGP team on Sydney Harbour

A-LEAGUE: Kick off is at 6pm on Sunday. Picture: Jessica Shapiro.

Central Coast Mariners to tackle Sydney FC in Gosford

LOOKING AHEAD: Newcastle Jets captain Nigel Boogaard. Picture: Jonathan Carroll

Skipper keen to lead Robinson revolution

James Gardiner

Peek through the famous keyhole to admire the secret gardens of the ancient order of the Knights of Malta and get a picture-perfect view of St Peter's Basilica. Picture: Shutterstock

Rome's hidden secrets brought to life in rockstar city

Teresa Ooi

Summer, sunshine and Spain.... take in the National Museum in Barcelona on your next getaway. Picture: Shutterstock

Deals of the week: Cruise the Baltic, a Spanish summer, best of domestic

Explore Travel

STUNNING: Follow the Midnight Sun through the Arctic Circle on a Viking Cruise from London to Bergen in Norway.

Last days: enter now to win a Scandinavian cruise

BIG VOICE: Bec Kynaston, pictured in the Newcastle production of the musical, 'We Will Rock You', in 2018, is one of the stars of the Opera Hunter production of 'She Loves You'. Picture: Marina Neil

Opera Hunter to perform first musical of 2020 in Lake Macquarie

David Stewart

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

VOCAL TALENT: ARIA Award-winner Conrad Sewell performs at the Cambridge Hotel on Saturday night.

Newcastle Herald Gig Guide: February 20-26, 2020

BIG VOICE: Bec Kynaston, pictured in the Newcastle production of the musical, 'We Will Rock You', in 2018, is one of the stars of the Opera Hunter production of 'She Loves You'. Picture: Marina Neil

Opera Hunter to perform first musical of 2020 in Lake Macquarie

CASINO ROYALE: Elizabeth Wright and her friends have organised a special night for Wangi Wangi on April 4. Ms Wright is pictured with her dog Evie in 2018. Picture: David Stewart

Stroll the red carpet in Wangi Wangi for Casino Royale

David Stewart

ON TOUR: The Eagles Show - Heart of the Matter takes audiences on a journey through The Eagles' career. The tribute will land in Belmont on February 21.

Tribute to The Eagles' vast catalogue of songs

Local builders offer lifetime structural guarantee on award winning homes

Local builders offer lifetime structural guarantee on award winning homes

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Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Emma Brown

SQUEAKY CLEAN: Is there a best way to give your car a clean-up? Do you start on the inside or out, work form the top to bottom or bottom to top?

Keep your car looking bright, shiny

Local builders offer lifetime structural guarantee on award winning homes

Local builders offer lifetime structural guarantee on award winning homes

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Holidaze Puzzlebook 2019-20

Holidaze Puzzlebook 2019-20

Residential property listings portal realestateview.com.au competes with Domain, which is majority owned by Nine Entertainment Co, and realestate.com.au, which is controlled by News Corp.

Catalano digital deal delivers property with a view

Smart technology: Today Acquire places property ads on news websites and social media outlets in view of people who are not actively looking to buy.

ACM pilots new digital platform to find the right buyer for your home

DEVELOPMENT: The former Pasminco smelter site is expected to transform in coming years and is being rezoned for large-format retailers. The council has begun talks to draft a new suburb around the site called Lake Macquarie.

Fresh talks to create suburb called Lake Macquarie

Max McKinney

Green dream in a fragile land

Green dream in a fragile land

Michelle Haines Thomas
2hrs ago

LIVELY: Tensions are likely to again be high when Central Coast Council meets at the Wyong headquarters on Monday night. Picture: David Stewart

Council reminds residents of rules for the gallery

David Stewart

CASINO ROYALE: Elizabeth Wright and her friends have organised a special night for Wangi Wangi on April 4. Ms Wright is pictured with her dog Evie in 2018. Picture: David Stewart

Stroll the red carpet in Wangi Wangi for Casino Royale

David Stewart

Green dream in a fragile land

Green dream in a fragile land

2hrs ago

PACK A PICNIC: Treat the kids to the fun atmosphere of a movie screening outdoors when Cinema Under the Stars returns to Speers Point Park on February 29. Picture: Supplied

Cinema Under the Stars returns to Lake Macquarie

TAKING SHAPE: Richard Worsley assembles a kookaburra box at Wangi Men's Shed this morning. Picture: Supplied

Wangi Men's Shed gets cracking on WIRES request for 10,000 bird boxes

Bega MP Andrew Constance says the bushfire emergency has forced him to reset his approach to politics. Photo: Adam McLean

IN DEPTHMP's fears for mental wellbeing of bushfire survivors

LIFT OFF: Just as a jet liner in the distance climbs into the Sydney skyline, the Australian team's F50 catamaran gets up and about on the harbour during training on Wednesday. Picture: Supplied

Watch local Kyle Langford and the Aussie SailGP team on Sydney Harbour

STUNNING: Follow the Midnight Sun through the Arctic Circle on a Viking Cruise from London to Bergen in Norway.

Last days: enter now to win a Scandinavian cruise

TAKING SHAPE: Richard Worsley assembles a kookaburra box at Wangi Men's Shed this morning. Picture: Supplied

Wangi Men's Shed gets cracking on WIRES request for 10,000 bird boxes

With the gang hook removed from its eye, the shark was released and swam away. Picture: Sea Life Aquarium.

Rescue mission to save snagged shark

Ben Langford

Tender and terrifying: this common centipede is curling itself around its young to protect them. Picture: Caleb Cluff.

This centipede is a crawling, caring mother

Caleb Cluff

NEW DIGS: Rebecca Martin of Bunnings Morisset, left, with Wildlife ARC's Sue Mannion, and Khye Wallace of Kyzac Powder Coating and a couple of the possum boxes. Picture: David Stewart

Manno Men's Shed and their possum boxes to the rescue

David Stewart

HANGING AROUND: Hunter Animal Rescue carer Roanne Mossman, of Dora Creek, with Eliza, the young flying fox she is nursing back to health. Picture: David Stewart

Blackalls Park flying foxes decimated over summer | photos

David Stewart

HAZARDOUS: A longtime resident of Brighton Avenue said elderly residents walk on the road because there is no footpath, and that's dangerous. Picture: Gabriele Charotte

Letters to the editor: Elderly dad injured in fall (Feb 20)

CONTRIBUTION: Tinto Espresso Bar chef Adam McKenzie. The cafe has a donation tin used to shout a coffee for emergency services personnel. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

Letters to the editor: Cafe's generous gesture (Feb 13)

WELL PLAYED: Graham Boyd says people who reduce their energy consumption, even in small ways, should be considered heroes, not hypocrites. Picture: Jessica Shapiro

Letters to the editor: Energy consumption heroes, not hypocrites (Feb 6)

TURNING THE PAGE: Rosie Craven is living with early stage Alzheimer's but is now able to enjoy hobbies such as reading again thanks to a new clinical trial.

Everything is Rosie thanks to new Alzheimer's drug trial

Rowan Cowley

LADY OF THE HOUSE: Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Prudence in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, in cinemas nationally from February 27.

Dear Prudence comes out to play for unstoppable Miriam

Geraldine Cardozo

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

Two more people brought back to Australia from a cruise ship in Japan have contracted coronavirus.

Two more ship evacuees contract virus

The XPT that crashed north of Melbourne, killing two people, was reportedly speeding.

Investigation of XPT derailment continues

Hannah Clarke has been remembered by her family has a caring and devoted mother.

Hannah Clarke 'was scared to leave Rowan'

Australian peacekeepers involved in Rwanda in the 1990s will be recognised at a service in Canberra.

Rwanda peacekeepers honoured with citation

Two more people brought back to Australia from a cruise ship in Japan have contracted coronavirus.

Two more ship evacuees contract virus

Rebecca Gredley

The Clarke family has remembered Hannah as a caring and devoted mother.

Hannah Clarke 'was scared to leave Rowan'

Robyn Wuth

Ethan Harder, 20, shearing the second last sheep of his world record attempt on Saturday. Urging him on are his coach, former record holder Cartwright Terry (to his left), his partner Regina Jones (behind him) their daughter Leilah was born on January 30 and members of Team Harder.

World shearing record bid falls short

Mal Gill

The XPT that crashed north of Melbourne, killing two people, was reportedly speeding.

Speed factor examined after XPT derailment

Kaitlyn Offer, Karen Sweeney, Christine McGinn and Dan McCulloch

The causeway at Yinnietharra station where the water height reached 4.6m early this week.

It hasn't rained on this property in two years, yet all the rivers run

Aidan Smith

The Hume Police District's Rural Crime Investigators, Detective Senior Constable Michael Calleja and Senior Constable Dale Croker, at the South Eastern Livestock Exchange in Yass. Photo: supplied

Hume Police District hires former shearer as new rural crime investigator

Hannah Sparks

Allan Deans, The Grange, Coonamble, with Anne and Ray Williams, Magomadine, Coonamble.

Rabobank, farmers celebrate 25 years of co-operation

Daniel Pedersen

CALMING INFLUENCE: Pheromones can help pets deal with stress and anxiety.

Using the call of nature to help fur kids cope with modern life

Lyndell Whyte
1hr ago

MODERN LOOK: The clean lines and simple forms of the Soulsby House reference the site responsive, energy efficient and cost effective homes of post-war Australian Modernism. Photos: Felix Mooneeram

A clean, green and comfortable machine

2hrs ago

PERFECT MATCH: Ensure your beautiful dishes are complemented by beautiful glassware and a quality cutlery set.

The finer points on cutlery