Its flagship program is the hour-long 9News bulletin at 6 pm, with editions produced by Nine's owned-and-operated stations in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth;[1] regional editions for Northern New South Wales and the Gold Coast air under the name of NBN News and are produced in Newcastle.

Presenters such as Amber Sherlock, Alicia Loxley, Belinda Russell, Julie Snook, and Lara Vella have anchored the bulletin at various times.

In mid-2014, Julie Snook replaced Belinda Russell but was promoted to the sports department two years later, with Lara Vella stepping into the role.

9News Morning airs at 11:30 am on weekdays, presented from TCN studios in North Sydney by Mark Burrows on Monday and Sophie Walsh on Tuesday–Friday.

Lizzie Pearl and Mark Burrows are the main fill-in presenters with Alison Piotrowski and Kate Creedon filling in occasionally.

The bulletin was originally presented from Sydney by Georgie Gardner (Saturday) and Peter Overton (Sunday) and Ken Sutcliffe, before production was moved to Melbourne in 2015.

Peter Overton became Nine's Sydney anchor in January 2009, with Ferguson returning to his former weekend role[21] (replacing Michael Usher and his predecessor Mike Munro).

In January 2020, Georgie Gardner returned to presenting the Nine News Sydney bulletin on the weekends, replacing Knight, who went on to host the afternoon show on 2GB.

[25][26] Fill-in presenters for the bulletin include Brett McLeod (news) Clint Stanaway and Natalie Yoannidis (sport), Madeline Spark, Stephanie Anderson and Mimi Becker (weather).

The 6pm bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio station River 94.9 and throughout remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television.

London resigned in June 2003 after allegations emerged that he had organized a female friend to complain about the presentation of weeknight anchor Bruce Paige.

Georgina McGuinness was the weekend presenter between 1989 and 2011, during which her bulletins consistently rated higher than the rival Seven News Adelaide in its time slot.

The 6pm bulletin is simulcast each weekday on local radio station Sunshine 98.5FM and nightly across regional Western Australia on WIN Television.

In March 2020, Vo returned to Perth due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to present the weekend bulletins, replacing Louise Momber.

Launched in 1996, the bulletin airs at 5:30pm (30 mins) on weeknights on QTQ's Gold Coast transmitters, before the 6pm Brisbane edition of Nine News.

Previous presenters of the bulletin have included Bruce Paige, Karl Stefanovic, Natalie Gruzlewski, Rob Readings, Jillian Whiting, Carly Waters, Frank Warrick, Melissa Downes and Wendy Kingston.

[35] Dinneen eventually went on to become the main anchor and was joined over the years by Tracey Reid, Chris Bath, Melinda Smith and finally Natasha Beyersdorf, before retiring on 17 December 2010 and was replaced by Paul Lobb.

In 2021, after nearly 60 years of production, the bulletin was moved out of NBN's long time studio home of 11 Mosbri Crescent, The Hill and relocated to 28 Honeysuckle Drive, Newcastle.

[36] On 13 December 2021, it was announced that longtime anchor Paul Lobb would be made redundant after a decade as weeknight news presenter and almost 30 years with the network.

Former political editors include: Chris Uhlmann (2017–2022), Laurie Oakes (1984–2017) and Peter Harvey (1973–1984) Former reporters include; Robert Penfold, Karl Stefanovic, Michael Usher, Mark Burrows, Charles Croucher, Nick McCallum, Amelia Adams, Tim Arvier, Lizzie Pearl and Alison Piotrowski.

Former reporters include; Robert Penfold, Mark Burrows, Damian Ryan, Sophie Walsh, Amelia Adams, Tom Steinfort, Carrie-Anne Greenbank and Brett McLeod.

Today Extra is the network's morning talk show, hosted by David Campbell and Belinda Russell with news presenter Mark Burrows from TCN studios in North Sydney.

A Current Affair is presented from TCN studios in North Sydney by Allison Langdon (Monday - Thursday) and Deborah Knight (Friday & Saturday).

Uptin and Arvier are now both on 9News Queensland as the weeknight sports presenter and state political/investigative reporter, respectively, while Croucher is now Chief Political Editor.

One reporter and one camera operator will remain in Darwin to cover stories for the Northern Territory, which will now be aimed at a national audience.

Until the launch of the bulletins, the coverage areas received short updates throughout the day, produced from Southern Cross's in-house newsroom in Canberra.

The regional bulletins of Nine News Local in Queensland, southern NSW and Victoria aired for the final time on Wednesday 30 June 2021.

The southern New South Wales and ACT composite bulletins were presented by Vanessa O’Hanlon (news), Mike Lorigan (sport) and Gavin Morris (weather) at the Mosbri Crescent studios in Newcastle.

Fill in presenters between March 2017 and March 2020 included Brett McLeod, Dougal Beatty, Andrew Lund, Carrie-Anne Greenbank, Eliza Rugg and Chris Kohler (news), Chris Mitchell, Clint Stanaway, Sophie Griffiths (sport), Alexandra Keefe, Hannah McEwan and Sophie Griffiths (weather) The regional Queensland bulletin was presented from the QTQ studios in Mount Coot-tha by Samantha Heathwood with weather presenter Gavin Morris at the Mosbri Crescent studios in Newcastle.

It was launched both in response to the Seven Network's similar bulletin Seven News at 7.00 and to provide additional coverage of the unfolding 2013 federal election.