Sarah McConnell

After being on the market for close to 12 months, Broken Hill’s Bells Milk Bar has new owners. The couple came across the business during a brief visit to far west from the Gold Coast for Mundi Mundi Bash and fell in love with the region.

The Department of Primary Industries sends investigators to Menindee, in far west NSW, after hundreds of thousands of dead fish are found in the Darling River.

When Abbie Kelly started making little packs of rainbow beads for LGBT kids and their friends to thread on their shoelaces, she had no idea it would catch the imagination of people all over the world.

Neighbouring far west stations Langidoon and Metford have been purchased by the NSW government, the second-largest land acquisition in the state for national parks in the past decade.