Josh Dye is a news reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
The remarkably inactive cyclone season off Australia's north has finally been disturbed by a major storm, as Tropical Cyclone Blanche brings heavy rain and strong winds to the Top End around Darwin.
Large hailstones as wide as 50¢ pieces lashed Sydney on Friday afternoon as severe storms hit the city.
It's 5.40am in Moree, northern NSW, as Ben Adams wakes up and prepares for work.
NSW students returning to school this week face extreme heat on Monday and Tuesday with temperatures reaching into the 40s for much of the state.
Walking under a train overpass in Summer Hill, the last thing Josh Pirini and Scott Martin expected to find was a baby penguin.
A man has attempted to throw a net over Premier Mike Baird as tensions boiled over in Ballina after the installation of the first shark nets in the region.
The state government will deploy extra resources to prevent shark attacks along northern NSW beaches after 17-year-old Cooper Allen was bitten last week.
Rising flood waters are threatening hundreds of homes in central NSW as the State Emergency Service responds to thousands of calls for assistance and road closures cripple the region.
Spring is in the air, which means one thing is certain: it's magpie swooping season.