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NSW disaster agency introduced amid floods

NSW is introducing legislation to create a Reconstruction Authority to cut red-tape and help communities quickly rebuild after natural disasters.

AAP · Nov 8, 2022

Floods hit pipeline, 20,000 without gas

Some 20,000 residents in Bathurst, Lithgow, Oberon, and Wallerawang could be without gas "for weeks" after a pipeline was hit by floods.

AAP · Nov 4, 2022

Sydney to host global mining execs in 2023

The biggest event on the mining calendar will return to Sydney for a second year despite opposition from climate activists.

AAP · Nov 3, 2022

$250 travel card for regional NSW students

A $250 travel card will soon be available for university students, apprentices and trainees living in regional NSW to help them get from place to place.

AAP · Oct 30, 2022

Drink spiking across NSW at highest level in five years, data shows

Phoebe Gorman was enjoying a night out with her friends in Wollongong when her mind suddenly went "blank". What unfolded next was so traumatising for the then-19-year-old, she didn't enter another nightclub for nearly two years.

ABC News · Oct 28, 2022

Farmers offered $200k to host NSW wires

Landholders in regional NSW will be offered $200,000 per kilometre to host transmission wires as the Perrottet government looks to ramp up renewables.

AAP · Oct 25, 2022

Reward increases as police search for answers to the death of Cessnock teenager Allison Newstead

Police and the NSW state government will offer a reward of $750,000 for information into the suspicious death of a 17-year-old girl at Cessnock in 1993.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 22, 2022

Where once there was coal smog, a cloud of uncertainty now hangs over Lithgow

The NSW town is in a hurry to transition from mining and power generation – but attracting new industries has its own pitfalls

The Guardian - AU · Oct 21, 2022

The difference between a drug trafficking charge or not could be less than a gram

ACT Chief Police Officer Neil Gaughan holds concerns about drug decriminalisation.

The Canberra Times · Oct 20, 2022

The NSW Police Minister’s Bro Is An Alleged Drug Dealer, Which Should Make Chrissy Interesting

"No one is above the law."

Pedestrian.tv · Oct 13, 2022