The Heritage Council of New South Wales has recommended the Hunter's Ravensworth homestead be placed on the state heritage register, which would give it significant protection from coal mining and ...

One of Australia’s most important old colonial homesteads, currently sitting on top of massive coal reserves, could be completely knocked down and rebuilt 45 kilometres away in an ambitious proposal ...

NSW Heritage Minister Penny Sharpe has added the 200-year-old Hunter Valley sheep station Ravensworth to the state’s heritage list, despite opposition from its owner, the coal miner Glencore, and ...

For more than a century, the NSW Hunter Valley has been a coal mining hub. The landscape is pockmarked with open cut mines, and the proposed expansion of one of these mines has divided the community.

Swiss-based mining giant Glencore says it plans to challenge the proposed listing of a heritage site, the Ravensworth Homestead, that could deter the planned expansion of its Glendell coal mine.

Two Wonnarua men campaigning to stop the destruction of a historic Indigenous massacre site have been publicly attacked by multi-billion-dollar mining giant Glencore. Glencore currently owns a coal ...