RURAL communities will be "marching on Canberra" if the new health reform plan puts their local hospitals at threat, a hospital chief executive has warned.

NEWCASTLE is preparing for the introduction of what is set to become an annual outdoor music festival at the foot of city landmark Nobbys.

STUDENTS are worried that more services at universities could be lost if changes to voluntary student unionism are not implemented by the end of this year.

THE introduction of the city's new bus network has been pushed back almost two months to November 30 about a year after work began to redesign services.

QANTAS suffered a further deterioration in flights delayed and cancelled in July, with almost one in six services scheduled between Sydney and Melbourne scrubbed.