New South Wales

Maddison Elliott and Dylan Alcott have won Australian Paralympic Awards after starring in the nation's Rio Games campaign.

Twenty-first century technology like CT scans is shedding light on the lives of six ancient Egyptians, including a temple singer, a priest and a child, who were mummified as long as 3,000 years ago.

Retired deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas claims a minor victory in his fight to stop the publication of a report into illegal police bugging, with the New South Wales Ombudsman promising not to release the document until the matter is heard in court.

The key decision makers — and award winners — in the Australian film industry are still overwhelmingly male, writes WIFT president Sophie Mathisen.

NSW police are examining a suspicious device, initially thought to be a homemade bomb, that sparked an emergency response and evacuations after being found at a power substation in Sydney.

World-renowned street artist Guido van Helten uses the sides of train wagons to paint portraits of residents of Manildra in central west New South Wales.

A Newcastle school student has won a scholarship to learn from some of Australia's leading Shakespearean actors.

A lamb vending machine in operation in southern New South Wales

The first ready-made lamb meal vending machine in Australia opens in southern New South Wales.

A woman is charged with selling toxic moonshine that was found by the NSW coroner to have contributed to three deaths in the remote Indigenous community of Collarenebri.

Low-income students in Sydney band together to see their apartment block become one of the first in Australia to install a shared solar and battery storage system.

Virtual fencing may soon be a reality for cattle producers with the release due next year of cattle collars.

A Coffs Harbour massage therapist who indecently assaulted dozens of his female patients will spend at least nine years behind bars.

The latest count of platypus in the Upper Murrumbidgee Catchment suggests numbers are increasing as the health of waterways improves.

The discovery of a large aquifer on farmland in the Snowy Mountains spawns a mineral water company taking on the global market.

New South Wales dairy cooperative Norco introduces paid domestic violence leave for its employees.

A New South Wales man struck liquid gold when he discovered a rare mineral water aquifer underneath his property in the Snowy Mountains.

A national helpline will replace Orange's only dementia support officer when the position runs out of funding next year.

A new 30,000-seat rectangular stadium at Parramatta, in Sydney's west, will be the envy of the country, the New South Wales Government boasts.

Russian wheat aphids' damage to grain crops is limited by insecticides and cooler weather.

Sydney GP Brian Crickitt faces the prospect of a lengthy jail term after being found guilty of injecting his wife with a lethal dose of insulin over New Year's Eve in 2009.

A senior doctor from Sydney's Concord Hospital pleads with the NSW Health Minister to deliver promised funding, saying dying patients and those who should be in isolation are being forced to share rooms with others.

The New South Wales Government's controversial lockout laws have been eased for live entertainment venues in the CBD and Kings Cross as part of a two-year trial.

Australian scientists are mapping grass pollen levels across the country from space, in a bid to develop an early warning system for asthma sufferers on high-danger days.

A woman who fell from the second floor of an apartment building has sparked another emergency at a hospital in western Sydney, after having to be cut from a car.