The Rural Fire Service is battling an ageing workforce, with almost 40 per cent of the state’s volunteers older than 60 – as fireys work to recruit young members before they finally hang up their helmets.
A NSW doctor has been forced to call police on anti-vaxxers who stormed into her waiting room and tried to persuade patients not to immunise their children, saying the rise of misinformation was becoming “incredibly dangerous”.
General practitioners will be able to resupply ADHD medication to their patients from September, preventing the need for expensive specialist appointments.
A young entrepreneur was stabbed in the driveway of a relative’s home just moments after he pulled up on Thursday night, with police still on the hunt for the two hooded men who ambushed him and left him for dead.
A Sydney gym’s controversial dress code rules which ban women from wearing short-shorts, boob tubes and one-shoulder tops, have come under fire, with members claiming the guidelines are “overbearing” and “sexist”.
A 15-year-old boy has been accused of trying to recruit people to commit contract murders across Europe from his computer in Sydney, after his parents moved him to Australia to distance him from his alleged links to Nordic gangs.
A teenager from country NSW was well-known to police before he died in a high-speed police chase in an allegedly stolen vehicle, with one of his mates now urging kids to stop stealing cars, fearing another of their friends could soon end up dead.
For 24 hours, a Vietnamese national swam 8km through open waters off the coast of Newcastle, battling the pitch black night, cool temperatures and the threat of drowning, with investigations now focused on whether the young man jumped from a cargo ship.
Sydney’s rodent problem is the worst it’s been in decades, according to pest experts, with destructive rats causing backyard pools to collapse, chewing holes through wooden doors and gnawing at electrical wires, as scores of them run rampant in the CBD and inner west.
Dozens of passengers have been walked from a light rail tram after a branch crashed into the front of it, smashing the windscreen and pulling down powerlines.
Nicola Cowlard doesn’t remember her dad, but there isn’t a day that goes by that she doesn’t think of him, mourning all the time she never got to spend with him.
A wedding caterer who left several brides and grooms thousands of dollars out of pocket and scrambling for last-minute dining options is being investigated over potential breaches of his bankruptcy obligations.
Imagine getting ready for surgery knowing the doctor who will operate on you won’t actually be in the room — they could be in another state or even country.
Samantha Miller was fighting for her life in hospital after contracting a strain of influenza, when she heard an ambulance had been called to her home — this time for her baby boy.
When Luca Cacciotti was diagnosed with motor neurone disease eight-months ago, he felt like he had been “hit with a sledgehammer”, but for the first time since that day, he feels a sense of hope about his future.
Security cameras in Vaucluse have picked up Paul Thijssen in the hours after he allegedly beat his ex-girlfriend to death with a hammer at a Sydney school – showing him walking along a clifftop footpath.
The boss of a Sydney recruitment company has been jailed after assaulting his on-again, off-again girlfriend on two occasions, with a judge finding his actions were “cowardly”.