The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

Some 85,000 people face evacuation as major flooding begins in the Hunter region and the weather system drenching the state heads north.

Train services for Sydney commuters have been cut by about 40 per cent as a union continues with industrial action.

State and territory health experts are considering whether to expand the availability of fourth vaccine doses as concerns rise over COVID-19 sub-variants.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will tour flood-affected communities in NSW alongside Premier Dominic Perrottet.

Sydney commuters will face further rail delays with trains operating at 60 per cent capacity for the rest of the week.

Dougie Hampson died hours after leaving a Western NSW hospital. Now his family wants the Attorney-General to help them get answers.

Unions have called on the NSW and federal governments to offer more support for Norco's ice-cream factory workers, whose jobs are only guaranteed to mid-July.

Hundreds of homes have been inundated in and around Australia’s largest city in a flood emergency that was causing trouble for 50,000 people, officials said Tuesday. Emergency response teams made 100 rescues overnight of people trapped in cars on flooded roads or in inundated homes in the Sydney area, State…

Soaring vegetable prices could be here to stay for some time, with the New South Wales flood crisis just the latest in a round of hits driving grocery bills sky-high.

For the fourth time in 18 months, floodwaters have inundated homes and businesses in Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Recent torrential rain is obviously the immediate cause. But poor decisions by successive New South Wales governments have exacerbated the damage.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard calls for a fourth COVID-19 vaccine to be made available in NSW for people aged under 65, as authorities warn of another wave of the virus, driven by variants BA.4 and BA.5.