The Latest Breaking News from New South Wales

COVID updates: Millions of RAT kits sent to schools as NSW and Victoria reveal education plans — as it happened

Students and teachers in NSW and Victoria will have access to weekly rapid antigen tests, with those states planning to do away with school closures when classes resume. Our coronavirus updates — as it happened

ABC News · Jan 22, 2022

Man convicted of murder of US mathematician Scott Johnson lodges appeal days after guilty plea

Scott White admitted to the killing in court earlier this month but now appeals against his conviction

The Guardian - AU · Jan 22, 2022

The Right stuff: why shellshocked NSW Liberal moderates are fearing factional fights

Tim James’s preselection in Gladys Berejiklian’s former NSW seat shows the growing influence of the hard right in the state

The Guardian - AU · Jan 22, 2022

Man dies in NSW river after fleeing police

The body of a man who ran from a traffic stop in the NSW mid north coast town of Taree has been recovered from the Manning River.

AAP · Jan 22, 2022

NSW records 30 deaths from COVID-19, hospitalisations increase to 2,762

NSW is in a good position to manage further likely increased COVID-19 case numbers when schools return and post-holidays, Dominic Perrottet says, as the state records 2,762 patients and 30 new COVID-19 deaths in the 24 hours to 8pm.

ABC News · Jan 21, 2022

NSW records 30 deaths, Victoria 20, Qld 10, SA three and Tasmania one – as it happened

Australia to scrap PCR test requirement for international arrivals; Triple J counts down Hottest 100. This blog is now closed

The Guardian - AU · Jan 21, 2022

Locals ‘devastated’ after Whitehaven Coal allowed to bury used tyres at Maules Creek mine

NSW government’s approval compromises ‘environmental integrity of the operation’, say campaigners

The Guardian - AU · Jan 21, 2022

NSW may have hit its Omicron peak based on hospital data — and that's good news for other states

The evidence is firming up that at least one state — New South Wales — has reached its hospitalisation peak for this wave of the pandemic.

ABC News · Jan 21, 2022

NSW still awaiting school COVID-safe plan

NSW parents are still waiting to hear how the government plans to keep school children safe when they return to school at the end of the month.

AAP · Jan 21, 2022

Postal vote option for NSW by-elections

Residents of four NSW electorates due to vote in by-elections on February 12 will all have the option to do so via post, as the state's COVID outbreak goes on.

AAP · Jan 21, 2022