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Volunteers never imagined the centre would stay open so long. But it has been a long road to recovery — and the "face of Black Summer" is still rebuilding.

Bushfire survivors and RFS volunteers have welcomed the state coroner's call to overhaul emergency warning systems, back-burn investigations, and vehicle standards.

Today a coronial inquiry delivered its findings into the deaths of 25 people during the 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires in New South Wales.

Traditional fire management strategies such as hazard reduction burns, logging, and the thinning of undergrowth have increased the flammability of forests, new research has found.

Gary Henderson and Sara Tilling have dedicated their lives to helping injured wildlife. Now they have been tasked with the job of rehabilitating 11 burned eastern grey kangaroos which were caught in an out of control bushfire days earlier. The roos now rest in their care.

At a wildlife sanctuary in south-east NSW, 11 eastern grey kangaroos are recovering from burns sustained in October's Coolagolite Road bushfire.

Selfless acts are remembered and chilling last words are heard as the long-running coronial inquiry into the Black Summer disaster continues.

Hundreds of people come together, share ideas, and help each other at the Triangle Tool Library in Cobargo, fuelled by the generous donations that poured into the bushfire-affected community after the Black Summer.

They were insured when the bushfires came, but not when they lost everything after signing up with builders who have now been stripped of their licenses. Now they are asking the federal government to step in and help.

Green Magic Homes Australasian distributor Alex Greig visited Sue and Gordon's home in November 2022 to see the flaws in the construction for himself and plan rectifications.

Sue de Marco and Gordon Sanger were left in limbo when the Australian contractor for Green Magic Homes was stripped of its licence in June 2022.

John and Cathy Fawbert lost everything when the building contractor they engaged to rebuild after the bushfires, Atomic 6, was stripped of its licence.

A priest in the Black Summer bushfire-ravaged town of Cobargo says it must be made it easier to build affordable housing in the region, as at least 50 families remain in emergency accomodation.

Some of the recipients of this year's Australia Day honours are well-known personalities, while others have been quietly working away behind the scenes. The awards have also posthumously recognised songwriter and activist Archie Roach.

For more than 70 years, generations of Rhonda Ayliffe's family and the Cobargo community have worked together to host the town's annual Christmas Eve party. This is the story of how it all began.

Samuel Robert Doolin told his mother he loved him before he was sentenced over a police siege in Cobargo in June.

A flaming tree smashed through the roof of a teacher's aide's home during the Black Summer bushfires. More than two years on, the charred pine is helping students come to terms with their trauma.

Artefacts from disasters across the country feature in a striking National Museum exhibit that showcases the power of nature.

A caretaker has told a court he was needed to look after pigs, sheep and plants. He then had some choice words for the magistrate when that failed to win his freedom.

Bushfire survivors Sue De Marco and Gordon Sanger have spent their life savings on an unsatisfactory rebuild by a company they say was exposed too late by the state government.

Drivers from across Australia join an Anzac Day convoy to deliver livestock feed to farming families in NSW's North Coast where many properties are still muddy after the recent flooding.

The tourism sector in regional New South Wales has struggled to bounce back this Easter after being decimated by the pandemic and a summer of rain.

Record amounts of smoke from Australia’s 2019-2020 bushfires may have caused changes in the atmosphere that caused a drop in ozone levels, a study suggests.

Cobargo blacksmiths are collaborating on a hand-forged bushfire memorial for their 'handcrafted' community.

Two blacksmiths from the Cobargo region have set themselves an ambitious task – to create a memorial tree, with thousands of leaves forged from fire by locals who were impacted by the Black Summer bushfires. In a series of blacksmithing workshops, they are mentoring community members to create a leaf, inscribed with their name, for a sculpture of “a tree that does not burn”, which will stand as a symbol of what was lost, and the enduring strength of their community.