Many residents forced to flee their homes because of a huge bushfire in central western New South Wales are yet to return, a local mayor says, while insurance assessors begin to count the cost of the blazes which have raged across the state.
People who hope to be revived after death will be able to be housed in a warehouse on the outskirts of the sleepy NSW town of Holbrook, frozen in time until science has advanced enough to bring them back to life.
A former NSW Rural Fire Service volunteer is refused bail after being charged for lighting two fires north-west of Forster, a crime the RFS Commissioner slams as "heinous".
It is a national epidemic that leaves its sufferers trapped inside their own bodies; isolated, depressed and misunderstood. Obesity affects almost a quarter of Australians, but help can be almost impossible to find.
Former Archbishop of Brisbane Peter Hollingworth is found by the royal commission into child abuse to have prioritised the needs of an abusive rector over those of one of his victims and other children at risk.
The coach of minor premiers the Adelaide 36ers says his side will need to be 'hungry' when they face off against the Illawarra Hawks in the NBL semi-finals.
The former partner of rugby league star Semi Radradra tells a Sydney court he punched her in the face soon after she gave birth, and then confessed to their pastor.
Residents are returning to communities in NSW to find nothing left after fires engulfed thousands of hectares across the state, with firefighters still working to contain a bushfire burning to the east of Dunedoo.
The death of a man during the Southern 80 waterskiing competition — the sixth fatal incident at the event since 1987 — sparks renewed concerns about the popular tourist attraction on the Victoria-New South Wales border.
Samuel Koschel was born with only one good ear and is spending the year learning classroom and social skills for his transition into a mainstream school.
Lin family killer Robert Xie, who murdered five members of his family, is given five life sentences without the possibility of parole, while his wife says he is innocent and a "scapegoat" for the crimes.
Most of the small community of Uarbry has been wiped out by a bushfire burning near Dunedoo, residents say, with some of the destroyed homes belonging to volunteer firefighters who were out combating the blaze.
Sydney couple Claudine and Dave Fitzgibbon were facing the difficult decision to proceed with a pregnancy after another spina bifida diagnosis or to terminate, but then doctors offered a glimmer of hope.
