Hunter Water has announced it will spend $27 million on a new disinfection system to improve water quality at one of the city's top surfing breaks, Merewether Beach. Last year a New South Wales ...

Reigning world surfing champion Joel Parkinson has confirmed he will compete in next year's Surfest at Merewether Beach. Parkinson took out the 2013 Mark Richards Trophy and he says he is looking ...

Newcastle's iconic Merewether Beach has been declared a national surfing reserve - only the sixth site in Australia to receive such a distinction. Four-time world surfing champion Mark Richards was a ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water ... A 1.8m shark has been spotted at Newcastle while a bodysufer was bitten on the leg at Merewether Beach. With several Newcastle beaches ...

As laid-back as Newcastle is, every coastal town has that one aspirational suburb – the one where, if you manage to hit a stroke of generational luck, or climb the property ladder and secure your ...

Newcastle's Merewether and Bar Beach coastline will need "significant intervention and investment" as the cost of managing the effects of climate change becomes a reality, the city's lord mayor says.