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The paddlesteamer PV Jandra, which meanders along the Darling River, is out of operation because there is no-one to take the helm.

The outback New South Wales community of Bourke celebrates the good fortunes of its previously troubled local abattoir which processes sheep and goats.

An Australian aviation startup on a mission to decarbonise air travel is developing a battery that could power a small aircraft to travel 1,000 km using hydrogen, and it already has a customer.

A domestic violence support service that helps women in an area half the size of NSW says it has been blocked from applying for funding that would employ 148 extra workers.

On a road out the back of Bourke, the lives of two Indigenous teenage girls ended in 1987. They were failed by the police as the lawyer for the defendant played on racial tensions in the town.

A coronial inquest has found the predatory and horrifying behaviour of a man responsible for the 1987 deaths of Aboriginal teenagers Mona Lisa and Cindy Smith was poorly investigated by police.

The NSW State Coroner finds racism tainted an "inexplicably deficient" police investigation into the 1987 deaths of two Indigenous girls.

From laps in outback water holes to Sydney's stadium of Olympic dreams, a tiny NSW primary school defies the odds and raises the roof in the state championships relay race.

It has been a wet and wild day across New South Wales with more extreme weather expected over the weekend. In Sydney more than 160 millimetres of rain has fallen since 9am on Thursday, its heaviest in 4 years.

The expected deluge overnight in parts of Sydney and the Illawarra, Blue Mountains and Hunter, could see severe flash flooding and rapid river rises.

Police allege a country officer had 19 cans of capsicum spray, four police-issued batons and almost 500 rounds of live pistol and simulation ammunition at his northern NSW home.

In a western NSW sports hall, dozens of young people gather each week to hone their hooks, jabs and upper cuts. And while it might sound serious, the sessions at Bourke PCYC are also full of laughter and conversation.

A man has died after the crop dusting aircraft he was in crashed into a paddock near Bourke in western New South Wales.

Thousands of Australians who collectively lost millions of dollars to failed funeral insurer Youpla could now get some of their money back, under a newly announced government scheme.

An official survey estimates the roo population declined significantly across New South Wales in the past 12 months, yet farmers say numbers appear healthy.

The Indigenous mother of a 15-year-old girl who died on a highway with her cousin 35 years ago tells an inquest into their deaths she felt discriminated against during the initial investigation, which the counsel assisting the coroner has blasted for a litany of failures.

A senior detective tells an inquest into the historic deaths of two Aboriginal girls on a NSW highway that manslaughter charges against a non-Indigenous man would have been more appropriate.

Lack of public awareness around self-managed funds is leaving people vulnerable to scams.

ABC News has exclusively traced a devastating case of financial crime described as "bizarre". It comes as the financial watchdog reveals that investment scams are on the rise in Australia.

In a world where recipes can be accessed with a keystroke, well-thumbed, old cookbooks can provide more than nostalgia and the comforts of home — they're a snapshot of who we are and where we've come from.

B-Town Warriors enjoyed international success and won a national Indigenous music award back in 2018, and has now re-formed to inspire a new generation.

The mother and aunt of two Indigenous teenagers who died in Bourke in 1987 has told a coronial inquest that she was never contacted by police, and learned of her daughter's death through her brother.

An inquest has heard from a former senior police officer, who admitted he accepted at face value, a non-Indigenous man's account of a fatal road accident, which killed two Aboriginal girls in the 1980s.

A retired police officer has told an inquest he suspected a man had sexually interfered with a teenage girl after she died in a road crash in Bourke in 1987.

The crash investigator tells an inquest there was "something not right" about the initial investigation into the 1987 crash in regional NSW.