Here's what you need to know this morning.
Flood report to be released today
A report from a parliamentary inquiry into floods that hit Northern NSW earlier this year is due to be made public today.
Over the past few months, an upper house committee chaired by Labor MLC Walt Secord took evidence at a series of public hearings in the Northern Rivers and Sydney.
Members looked into the response of various government agencies including Resilience NSW and the State Emergency Service (SES).
The report will include recommendations on how emergency response strategies can be improved.
But it will not have detail about proposed buyback or land-swap schemes.
It is understood this will be outlined in a separate much-anticipated report, which the state government is yet to publicly release.
NSW Liberals to vote on deputy leader
The NSW Liberal Party will today determine who will replace Stuart Ayres as deputy leader, following his resignation last week.
A partyroom meeting will be held for a vote on his successor.
Mr Ayres resigned from his portfolios and leadership position last week after a review "raised concerns" about his conduct in former deputy premier John Barilaro's appointment to a lucrative US trade role.
Transport Minister David Elliot yesterday pulled out of the running, leaving Treasurer Matt Kean as the only declared candidate.
Mr Elliot said he withdrew after a discussion with Premier Dominic Perrottet, who expressed his desire for party unity in the lead-up to next year's state election.
Death of baby under investigation
Police are investigating after the death of a nine-month-old baby at a home in Sydney's west yesterday.
Authorities were called to the home in Doonside for a welfare check at about 10am.
The child was found unresponsive. Paramedics treated it at the scene by but it could not be revived.
Local area officers are looking into the circumstances that led to the child's death.
Union accuses rail officials of 'escalating industrial action'
The rail union says it has received advice that Transport for NSW will stop all trains on the Illawarra line on Wednesday.
It is the same day the union is set to kick off its first strike this month, with workers walking off the job for six hours at stations including Wollongong.
The industrial action, which the union says was designed to ensure services would continue to run, is part of the union's ongoing dispute with the state government over the safety of the new intercity fleet.
Rail, Tram and Bus Union NSW secretary Alex Claassens said transport officials' decision to shut down all services on the Illawarra line was disappointing, and the union would meet with them today.
"Yet again, its another example of the transport bureaucrats deliberately using our industrial action to escalate it and make it seem like we're doing this horrible thing," he said.
Transport for NSW has been contacted for comment.
Five regional towns at risk of not having GPs
A charity is withdrawing its financial support for GP services in five New South Wales towns due to the soaring cost of locums.
From September 30, Rural and Remote Medical Services will no longer help to pay for fly-in fly-out doctors at Gilgandra, Warren, Bingara, Tenterfield and Braidwood, which means the practices will have to foot the bill alone.
Chief executive Mark Burdack said the communities would be at risk of having no doctors if a locum was too expensive.
"We can't afford to pay locum costs moving forward," he said.
"So that means each of the towns, if they lose the general practitioner, if they decide to go, they will potentially be up for anywhere between $2,500 and $3,500 a day to get a locum in."
He also said agreements had been struck to try to maintain locum services in three of the towns, with negotiations ongoing in Gilgandra and Warren.
Movement of bees allowed in areas with flood warnings
Beekeepers in areas subject to flood warnings across NSW will be allowed to move their hives to safety.
The special permit allows for one movement only and comes as the weather bureau issues alerts for a number of rivers, including the Murrumbidgee and Macquarie.
NSW Chief Plant Protection Officer Satendra Kumar said the permits came with special conditions.
"If the entire premises is at risk of flooding, the hives can be moved to a new location, but it must be within the same emergency zone," Dr Kumar said.
"After the hives have been moved, they cannot be moved back to the original location."
There are currently 79 premises in NSW infected with varroa mite, according to the Department of Primary Industries (NSW DPI).
