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The Drop Festival 2020
This Drop Festival event site at Empire Park, Bar Beach has been reviewed by all applicable event stakeholders and has been approved in principle.
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Plans for Newcastle Beach progress with feedback from the community
City of Newcastle has reconvened its Bathers Way – King Edward Park to Newcastle Beach community reference group (CRG) as it moves towards the next step in completing an 11-kilometre revitalisation of its coastline.
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30 years on: Remembering the 1989 earthquake
At 10.27am on 28 December it will be 30 years to the minute since an earthquake broke Novocastrian hearts and devastated our city.
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Joy Cummings’ trailblazing spirit captured in bronze
The late Joy Cummings AM established herself as a woman of many firsts. -
Vale Jill Emberson 1959 - 2019
City of Newcastle is working with the family of Jill Emberson on a public memorial to be held at City Hall on her birthday, 23 January, following her sad passing overnight -
City marks 90th birthdays of Civic jewels
This year City of Newcastle led the charge to a new, more accessible CBD by relocating to a modern office block in the West End.
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Council update Tuesday 10 December 2019
Following is a summary of resolutions from the Ordinary Council meeting for Tuesday 10 December 2019. Note it is not a full record of Council.
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Kick off the new decade with indie rock and butterflies
City of Newcastle has announced Australian indie-rock legends You am I will headline this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration at Newcastle Foreshore.
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City to bring emergency operations into 21st Century
Just a few weeks before the 30th anniversary of the Newcastle earthquake, a modern emergency operations centre proposed for the City’s new Administration Centre will be considered by Councillors at their final meeting of the year.
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Harbour Foreshore Precinct Masterplan consultation to begin in early 2020
City of Newcastle will commence community engagement in the new year to develop a masterplan for the Harbour Foreshore Precinct.