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END OF AN ERA: Aberdeen car enthusiast Wayne Murphy with his beloved 1966 Holden HR Premier.

Local Holden enthusiasts saddened by iconic brand's closure

Caitlin Reid

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Gayle Tomlinson

HIGH ACHIEVERS: From left: Heidi Wolfgang, Kyle Eriksson, Breanna Cox and Daisy Ratatagia.

St Joseph's high achievers return

Cody Tsaousis

DWELLING DIP: Scone and Muswellbrook remained steady in their housing approvals for 2019, but are still a long way off their record highs of the early 2010s.

Housing approvals mixed for Scone and Muswellbrook

Cody Tsaousis

Muswellbrook Shire Council's spokesperson for the arts Jason Foy and Richard Gill School founding principal Chris English

Pioneering school a coup for Upper Hunter

Rod Thompson

Scone Saleyards welcomed online bidders for the first time via digital auction platform Stocklive on Tuesday. Photo: File picture

Scone Saleyards welcomes online bidders

Caitlin Reid

HELPING OUT: Eden Ferguson and Sophie Luscombe showed us how its done at the 2019 School Clean Up Australia Day in Murrurundi.

Keep our shire looking great

Newsroom

END OF AN ERA: Aberdeen car enthusiast Wayne Murphy with his beloved 1966 Holden HR Premier.

Local Holden enthusiasts saddened by iconic brand's closure

Caitlin Reid

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Gayle Tomlinson

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

Scone Golf Presentation Men's 2019 Championships winners Scott Shann, Will O'Donnell, Paul Smart, James Smart and Charlie Mannning.

Scone Golf Club toasts to 2019 success

Scone twins Skye and Jessica Singleton and their mother Michelle. Photos: Supplied

Successful season on the saddle

Caitlin Reid

Galloper bursts back into action

Galloper bursts back into action

Neil Evans

Scone Golf Presentation Men's 2019 Championships winners Scott Shann, Will O'Donnell, Paul Smart, James Smart and Charlie Mannning.

Scone Golf Club toasts to 2019 success

Scone snares another TAB meeting

Scone snares another TAB meeting

Neil Evans and Rod Thompson

Scone & District Netball Association representatives Olivia Taylor and Meg Haylen.

Duo selected for academy squad

Australia's longest-running regional food festival, Orange FOOD Week, is now in its 29th year.

Orange, the hidden land of milk, honey and FOOD Week

Linda Moon

Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon. Picture: Shutterstock

How to make the most of three days in Ho Chi Minh City

Hannah Warren

Brisbane, and the Story Bridge, is spectacular at night.

Brisbane's transformation to Queensland capital of cool

Sheriden Rhodes

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

AUSSIE ICON: The 2020 Scone Horse Festival will launch with a family friendly event featuring Australian country singer Shannon Noll. Photo: supplied

WHAT'S ONAussie icon to launch horse festival

Caitlin Reid

Upper Hunter Show Society events coordinator Amber Weir and president Keith Googe

Let's get on with the show

Rod Thompson

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Find a garage sale in NSW and the ACT

Is Shrek the Musical worth a trip to the big smoke? Yup.

REVIEWIs Shrek the Musical worth a trip to the big smoke? Yup.

Gayle Tomlinson

Delicious nutrition: The Wholesome Collective's Michael Paterson demonstrates some healthy recipes at one of the popular cooking workshops.

Plenty to learn: New program to add an extra dose of wellness to people's lives

Delicious nutrition: The Wholesome Collective's Michael Paterson demonstrates some healthy recipes at one of the popular cooking workshops.

Plenty to learn: New program to add an extra dose of wellness to people's lives

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

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

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

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

HIGH ACHIEVERS: From left: Heidi Wolfgang, Kyle Eriksson, Breanna Cox and Daisy Ratatagia.

St Joseph's high achievers return

Cody Tsaousis

PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa sows hope after fires

Robyn Ainsworth

HELPING OUT: Eden Ferguson and Sophie Luscombe showed us how its done at the 2019 School Clean Up Australia Day in Murrurundi.

Keep our shire looking great

Newsroom

HIGH ACHIEVERS: From left: Heidi Wolfgang, Kyle Eriksson, Breanna Cox and Daisy Ratatagia.

St Joseph's high achievers return

DEDICATED TEACHER: St Mary's Primary School Scone teacher Monique Lloyd has dedicated her teaching career to the Upper Hunter region and this was recognised on Tuesday with a special award.

Dedication and passion for teaching awarded

Caitlin Reid

Ed Goff and Harrison Badger on the New England Highway during their Scone to Sydney charity walk.

'Visitors' keen to help our firies

Rod Thompson

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

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

Enter now: win a Scandinavian cruise with Viking

Peter Sugar describes a torrent of water, logs and fire debris sounding like a tsunami as it swept into Nerrigundah. Photo: Adam McLean

Trail of tears as fire-scarred South Coast mops up after the flood

Pot luck: Ray Hollingsworth with the ring he found at Gateway Plaza. Picture: Anthony Brady

Juliette, a builder's found your ring, but where's Romeo?

Superb fairy-wren populations in Canberra are declining. Picture: Simon Bennett

Why global warming is such a turn-off for Canberra's favourite bird

Steve Evans

Clare and Lyn Hedger, from Alfredton, are on board the Diamond Princess which is quarantined in Yokohama Harbour after a coronavirus outbreak. Picture: Clare Hedger

Mum, daughter in windowless lockdown on coronavirus cruise ship

Greg Gliddon

Team Rubicon volunteers at the end of a long day dropping and chopping trees in Cobargo and Quaama. Photos: Ben Smyth

Viking gods and the grey shirt army: Team Rubicon Australia in action

Ben Smyth

COMPLETED: Warrnambool's Karenlyn Ryan has been working on her 32,000 piece Keith Haring puzzle since 2011. Picture: Rob Gunstone

Eight years and 32,256 pieces later, it's so much more than a jigsaw

Jessica Howard

YOU DECIDE: A baby throwing a tantrum or a daring and unique political operative? Picture: Gareth Gardner

SATIRE'No joke': Barnaby creates party fever dream

Mark Bode

SURPRISE: The plant-based meat patties I tried didn't taste like real steak or lamb - but neither do actual meat patties.

OPINIONPlant-based meat trend's bit hard to swallow

Father Brendan Lee

Cap your drinks, follow the new alcohol guidelines

OPINIONCap your drinks, follow the new alcohol guidelines

Dr Jason (Heng) Jiang

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

The conspiracy trial of Eddie Obeid will hear from federal Labor leader Anthony Albanese.

Albanese, Foley to appear at Obeid trial

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Tuhirangi-Thomas Tahiata has denied murdering Cory Breton and Iuliana Triscaru in January 2016.

Jury to resume at Qld toolbox murder trial

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Former Victorian Liberal director Simon Frost (right) could be referred to the High Court.

Court decision for former Liberal director

17m ago

Economists tip the unemployment rate for January to rise as the economy struggles.

Rise in jobless rate expected for January

17m ago

Religious leaders are urging Scott Morrison to change climate policy following the bushfires.

Faith leaders press PM on climate action

Heather McNab
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Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers says Queensland will be crucial to Labor at the next election.

Qld key to political, economic lift: Labor

Paul Osborne

Samantha Nomonie-Smith in short film Love Speech, part of a campaign targeting homophobic language

Swap hate for Love Speech this Mardi Gras

Sophie Moore

Former Telstra worker Bradley Robert Edwards denies murdering three women in 1996 and 1997.

Claremont 'breakthrough' scientist speaks

NSW DPI research agronomist, Rohan Brill was awarded the GRDC's 2020 Northern Region Emerging Leader Award, commended for his work on the Optimising Canola Profitability project. Pictured here with sons Jim, 3 and Harry, 1. Photo supplied.

Rohan Brill and Tony Swan recognised by GRDC

Olivia Calver

Meg Crouch and her father, Phillip, among their Karu blood maidens which were the runners-up flock this year.

L'Estrange's top off big year

Mark Griggs

James and Elise Nixon with Henry, 3, and Maggie, 2, with their Bundemar blood flock ewes at Leewang, Yarrabandai, which won the competition for the second successive year.

Nixon family's ewes back-to-back win

Mark Griggs

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

The finer points on cutlery

SUM TOTAL: A simple equation will give an indication of how long assets will last.

Simple rule of thumb may answer longevity question

Eco-friendly backyard tips

Eco-friendly backyard tips