Elloise Farrow-Smith

Music festivals in NSW are being offered a financial assistance as the state government scrambles to save the industry from extinction, but the director of Bluesfest says it may not be enough.

There are calls for legislative change as the inquest into the 2019 Corrective Services shooting death of Wiradjuri man Dwayne Johnstone ends with the coroner to hand down her findings and recommendations in late August.

A coronial inquest hears calls for Corrective Service regulations to be modernised following the death of Dwayne Johnstone, who was shot while fleeing from officers.

NSW gardener in blistering pain after discovering new outbreak of dangerous fire ants at flood pod village

A “sunset date” has been used to cancel the contracts of 47 would-be home owners on New South Wales’s North Coast, who say they have now been priced out of the market.

Daniel Buckley’s wife will give birth in four weeks and they are still living in a shed after last year’s floods. With an insurance premium seven times what it used to be, they will be “queuing up to have a say” as part of a federal inquiry into the sector.

Splendour in the Grass organisers say lessons have been learnt after last year’s traffic chaos, but even Lizzo, Flume, and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs might not be able to raise the bar as hip pocket pressures hit ticket sales.

The survivors of last year's devastating landslips in the northern New South Wales flood catastrophe say they are in no-man's-land while they wait for news of a land buyback.

In the midst of trauma, the most unlikely healing tool has come in the form of a camera.

After a monumental 10 years of fundraising, the town of Nimbin in New South Wales has just taken possession of a special cooling plate to preserve bodies at home in the days following death.