After three years of crippling detours that cost farmers 90 per cent of their sales and added hours to family trips, relief is finally in sight for the Upper Hunter.

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The troubled Merriwa to Willow Tree Road (MR358), which collapsed from landslides in 2021, is "almost complete" and set for reopening.

Upper Hunter Shire Council mayor, Cr Maurice Collison, is expecting a Christmas present wrapped with bitumen for his Merriwa ratepayers.

Cr Collison said work to repair subsidence damage on the troubled Merriwa to Willow Tree Road (MR358) is almost complete, and t

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