And is your home in the 'red zone'? Climate risks making homes 'uninsurable'
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Part-time skipper guilty over massive cocaine haul | |
| 49-year-old musician and part-time skipper Craig Lembke will be sentenced in December after being found guilty of importing illegal drugs to Australia. He was arrested after sailing a catamaran from Tahiti to Lake Macquarie with 700 kilograms of cocaine on board. | |
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Newcastle Anglicans to vote on same-sex marriage | |
| The Anglican Dean of Newcastle Katherine Bowyer has hit back at comments by the Archbishop of Sydney that supporters of same sex marriage should leave the church. Anglicans will debate the issue this week at a two-day Synod at Newcastle's Christ Church Cathedral. | |
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Traffic chaos on M1 after accident | |
| Traffic was brought to a standstill on Wednesday when all lanes, north and south bound, were closed on the M1 Pacific Motorway, after a road worker was hit by a car near Berowra. Hunter motorists were affected, with traffic queued back several kilometres in both directions. | |
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Microwave meals linked to salmonella outbreak recalled | |
| A brand of microwave meals has been recalled across New South Wales after a salmonella outbreak that's affected several people in Newcastle and on the Central Coast. Health authorities are urging consumers to be mindful of cooking instructions on frozen meals. | |
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A barking good time in Newcastle dog park | |
| Newcastle's first fenced dog park has opened at North Lambton and the city's pooches lapped it up on Sunday. Locals have been lobbying the local council for years to create a safe, off-leash area for dogs of all sizes. | |
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Is your home in the red zone? | |
| The ABC has released a feature on climate risks and how they will affect the cost of insurance for your home in the years to come. It's likely some homes, particularly in the Newcastle suburbs of Carrington and Wickham, could become uninsurable.
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Saving water could win you a water tank! | |
| ABC Newcastle has teamed up with Hunter Water in a competition to help cut water wastage, as water restrictions are introduced in the Lower Hunter for the first time in 25 years.
The winning water warrior will take home a water tank valued up to $10,000. | |
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