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Australian Reptile Park manager Billy Collett with a freshwater crocodile captured at Wallsend on Sunday, March 1, 2026.

‘Don’t belong here’: Croc captured in Newcastle park

Wildlife carers are working to find a permanent home for the reptile abandoned in a suburban waterway.

  • Jack Gramenz

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First home buyers Serehnonn Atkinson and her partner Dom at home in Wallsend, Newcastle.

Serehnonn bought her first home but didn’t expect mortgage to go up six months later

First home owners who bought property at rock-bottom interest rates were assured rates would stay on hold until 2024, but now face a jump in their repayments as the cash rate lifts earlier than planned.

  • Tawar Razaghi and Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
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The Fire Station Hotel

In the one-time coal-mining village of Wallsend, now a Newcastle suburb, this tavern is, as you'd ...