A NSW parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery in regional areas found evidence of migrant workers living in near-uninhabitable conditions, forced to work demanding hours and threatened if they spoke up.
When 70-year-old Annie Milne started a Granny Grommets group in her small northern New South Wales town she was "inundated" by older women eager to make friends and step out of their comfort zone.
Two Southern Ocean deepwater seabirds, the Kerguelen petrel and the grey petrel, have been photographed off Port Macquarie, during a "stunningly rare" southern seabird event.
After undergoing brain surgery, Cheryl Blacklock can no longer process numbers quickly and has instead found a new life through art, painting faces that appear as visions in her mind.
The sighting of critically endangered parrots is seen as "really exciting" after hardly any were seen across NSW last year. But a bird expert warns the species still faces significant threats.
Researchers say the removal of invasive rodents on Lord Howe Island has sparked a rebound of invertebrate life, including native cockroaches and other insects, vital to the broader ecosystem.
Experts are relieved to see the number of endangered Manning River turtles holding steady, a year after devastating flooding in northern New South Wales.
It was six months before Ed Trotter could return home after record floods on the NSW Mid North Coast. A year on from the disaster, others are still without working kitchens and bathrooms.
