The Latest Breaking News from NSW Health

The union representing prison officers - and a range of other workers considered by many to have been on the front line at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic - says the NSW government should also give one-off payments, like those promised to health workers this week, to employees in…

A man in his 30s has tested positive in NSW and been confirmed as Australia’s sixth case of monkeypox, with his travelling companion likely to have it too.

A man in his 50s has become the second person to be diagnosed with monkeypox in NSW and the third in Australia.

Queanbeyan pharmacists were working through the implication of free flu shots.

An inquest calls out shortcomings in the care of 18-year-old Alex Baes, who died from a toe infection despite attending Broken Hill Hospital four times in less than two days.

Health authorities are urging anyone who visited the CBD in the past 10 days to be on alert for symptoms of a fever, cough or shortness of breath.

Visitors to the city in the past 10 days advised to look out for symptoms after five people admitted to hospital

MORNING BRIEFING: Sydney has woken up to a thick blanket of heavy fog over much of the city and metropolitan area.

For three months, Corowa's David Kiefel was in a critical condition in hospital, battling the mosquito-borne virus Japanese encephalitis.

NSW Health authorities are warning people not to forage for potentially lethal wild mushrooms after a spike in poisonings.

Just as the country is learning to live with COVID, another virus has landed on Australian shores after a slow international spread in past weeks.