Melissa Martin

Fears that the wild horses that roam the Guy Fawkes River National Park in northern NSW could be targeted in a massive aerial culling program have been allayed, but exactly what should be done with the brumbies remains a sticking point for government agencies and animal advocates.

The Port Macquarie koala hospital fears more than 350 koalas may have died in a bushfire south of the town, with staff frustrated they cannot yet access the site.

As their usual food sources dry up, flying foxes are searching further afield for shelter and something to eat.

Cafe goers in Crescent Head on the NSW Mid North Coast may have been drinking carpet snake with their coffee, but one reptile handler says there’s no need to worry.

Tradition dictates that we start putting up the Christmas decorations on December 1, but all that's changing as social media feeds our desire for an earlier start to a longer festive period.

Two men are extradited to Queensland over allegations they were part of a plot to help women abduct children, portray their fathers as child abusers and then hide the children from authorities.