The Latest Breaking News from Broken Hill

Tadhg Kennelley and Kirby Bentley connect with young people in Broken Hill and Menindee as ambassadors for How's Ya Mate? — a successful local mental health and wellbeing initiative that hopes to go national.

A number of employees and contractors working at the company Perilya may be out of a job due to a staff restructure in one of its mines.

Calls are mounting for a Broken Hill drug rehabilitation centre after complaints from local residents about dirty needles being left in the CBD. Council workers say they're finding hundreds every day.

After thousands of visitors flocked to WA last week to see a total solar eclipse, both a Broken Hill astronomer and tourism committee chairman are predicting an even larger tourism opportunity driven by another in five years' time.

A woman in her 60s and another in her 50s have been "severely injured" in an aggressive dog attack in Broken Hill. Both have been airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Max Bell was a 65-year-old taxi driver in outback New South Wales who was dying from stomach cancer. When the NT government decided to legalise euthanasia, he saw a way out.

The ABC understands some Southern Cross Austereo staff were unaware that last night's broadcast was the final one.

For decades, the problem of overcrowding has plagued the outback NSW town, but some relief is in sight with five elder housing units completed and more to come.

Broken Hill police note a spike in "dangerous and silly driving" after engaging in seven vehicle pursuits in one week.

The town's only aged care provider says unless it can find extra nurses, it will have to reduce numbers at one of its homes by the end of the year.

Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish…