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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…

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.

Two men, in their 30s and 40s — who are recently returned travellers — have been diagnosed with monkeypox, but both have mild symptoms and are in isolation, authorities say.

NSW Health is carrying out confirmation testing after a possible case of the rare disease monkeypox was identified, as more nations grapple with outbreaks.