The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

Lismore is breathing a sigh of relief with river levels receding and forecast heavy rain avoided, as Byron Bay starts its clean-up.

Nurses and midwives across NSW have walked off the job for 24 hours to call for extra staff after their union warned patients risked gambling with their health.

All because he called on them to free refugees and others in detention.

Sightings of the leatherback turtle are rare in NSW and the species is considered endangered in the state

Predicting the weather is notoriously a difficult task, but getting the severe weather forecast right can be even harder, according to Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Neil Bennett.

Heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of people fled their homes for the second time within weeks after fast-moving flood waters burst river banks and broke over levees. Several towns in northern New South Wales, already reeling after record floods over a month…

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says rain that triggered the state's fourth deadly floods in four months in easing as the system moves south into NSW.

A Newcastle man was among the 15 people who died with COVID-19 across NSW in the 24 hours to 4pm on Tuesday, as the region's daily case number soared.

The Wilsons River at Lismore is expected to reach a peak of about 12 metres this evening as the NSW SES says the state's flood crisis "still has a number of days to go".

Charlestown MP Jodie Harrison says the NSW government needs to urgently respond to the safety needs of students at university campuses, after the results of a survey released last week showed almost 18 per cent of students polled at the University of Newcastle experienced sexual harassment since beginning their studies.

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