Environment

Eryk Bagshaw

Eryk Bagshaw is a journalist with Fairfax Media

Neil Mattiske with his daughter Jo and 2yo grandson Riley on their flood affected farm near Forbes where they grow ...

Neil shrugs off $500,000 damage to his 'black gold'

More than 246 properties evacuated, 97 flood rescues, 181 families stranded on islands, and tens of millions of dollars in losses to local businesses throughout central NSW. That is the human, emotional and economic toll of a flood that was in some ways, man made.

One of the ads for a puppy from an Armidale puppy farm

Labor to ban puppies from pet shops

The NSW Labor party would ban the sale of puppies from pet stores if elected to government in March. Labor leader, Luke Foley, will announce the policy on Saturday along with a ban on large scale puppy farms that limits the amount of breeding dogs to ten per farm.

A labradoodle puppy from the puppy farm advertised for sale.

RSPCA raids NSW puppy farm

A puppy farm in northern NSW has been investigated by RSPCA NSW after animal activists claimed that they had found evidence of dogs living in "appalling conditions."