Owner-chef Joel Humphreys has enlisted local grower Dylan Abdoo from Newcastle Greens to help out on salad duties; he ...

Dr Helen Smith, an arachnologist (spider biologist) at the Australian Museum and one of the authors of the study suggested naming the newly identified species from Newcastle after Christensen’s ...

The change will hit Sydney about rush hour and extend on to Newcastle by the early evening. “Severe thunderstorms are also possible over parts of Sydney and the Hunter during the afternoon or ...

Hunt has forged a remarkable career: 334 NRL games, 20 Origins and 15 Tests. But his only grand final appearance, in 2015, ended in disaster, when he dropped the kick-off in golden point extra time, ...

Okay, so there will be readers thinking "that bloke from Waratah is whinging again", but on Tuesday it was bloody hot.

"If you are bitten by a funnel-web spider, call an ambulance and go straight to hospital," researcher Geoff Isbister said.

The Sydney funnel-web spider has extremely dangerous venom, but according to a new study this spider is actually three different species — one of which, the "Newcastle big boy," is much larger.

Researchers have confirmed Sydney's funnel-web spiders are made up of three different species. The largest and most venomous type is known as the Newcastle funnel-web. The finding will not change ...

“The Newcastle funnel-web, Atrax christenseni— dubbed Big Boy—is a totally new species. The ‘true’ Sydney Funnel-web, Atrax robustus centres on the North Shore of Sydney and the Central Coast, and the ...

Nicknamed “Big Boy” and living just 100 miles north of Sydney, the Newcastle funnel-web has thrilled arachnologists – and struck fear into arachnophobes. By arachnid standards, it is a whopper.

SYDNEY Thunder's Toby Gray top scored and the Whips came close, but ultimately they fell just short of chasing down the ...