New South Wales

The residents of the Pappinbarra Valley on the New South Wales mid north coast are rallying together to help rebuild after the devastating fires in February.

The Oscar-winning actress accuses Hollywood of exporting a "not-very-good image of women", and is working behind the scenes to bring gender balance to American films and TV shows.

Thousands of pelicans have gathered at Lake Brewster – some 500 kilometres from the coast – for the mating season. But how they knew to flock to the inland lake is a mystery to scientists.

Senior doctors at The Tweed Hospital on the NSW far north coast say patients are being forced to go across the border to Queensland because the facility is at breaking point.

The police case against Gordon Wood over the death of his model girlfriend Catherine Byrne was "completely without malice", the Supreme Court hears.

Debi Hazelden loves a challenge and not even rain, hail and shine will stop her from trying to complete 100 triathlons in 100 days to raise money for the Red Cross.

The FFA says there is no room yet for A-League expansion, but a Chinese-backed group says its ready to go with a bid for Southern Sydney.

There are growing calls for the New South Wales Government to fix derelict and run-down public housing properties, as the state's waiting list passes 60,000 people.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton was involved in delaying the public release of a Making Children Safer report, which found just half of alleged incidents of abuse toward child detainees were adequately addressed, the child sex abuse royal commission hears.

A health and safety organisation said it may be time to consider mandatory laws around the wearing of helmets on quad bikes

Airbnb gives neighbours unhappy about short-term rentals a way to provide feedback.

Thousands of pelicans have found their way to Lake Brewster in southern NSW to breed and feed.

Sydney Airport made $97.8 million in profit from car parking fees in just one year, a report released by the ACCC shows, as the consumer body calls for greater regulation of airport competition.

Long before kombucha made it onto the menus of hipster cafes, shelves in Australian alternative communities were stacked with jars of fermenting concoctions.

A six-year-old girl dies and a 13-year-old is injured in a quad bike accident near Narrabri in north-west New South Wales.

The discovery of high-grade cobalt at an exploration site in South Australia has come at a time when prices for the precious metal have soared to record highs amid a supply shortage.

Taronga Zoo's Bellinger River snapping turtle breeding program celebrates the birth of 21 hatchlings.

Jimmy Rizk wants people to know that a gender transition can be successful and lead to happiness, even when it comes at a significant emotional, physical and financial cost.

A court requests a psychiatric assessment for a woman charged with the murder and attempted murder of her two sons after she allegedly attacked them in the Murray River, drowning one.

The death of a man in a makeshift camp at a northern New South Wales public park prompts calls for a designated area for homeless people to sleep without the threat of being fined.

Airlines and their passengers have paid up to $1.6 billion too much for airport access over the past decade due to a textbook example of how not to privatise monopoly assets, the competition regulator says.

A Hunter Valley's winemaker blasts New South Wales tourism officials for failing to support the industry adequately.

Assaults have dropped in Kings Cross but risen in parts of Sydney outside of the city's lockout law zones, in some places as much as 17 per cent, new statistics reveal.

The Brisbane Roar beat the Newcastle Jets 3-1 in Newcastle to hang on to fourth place on the A-League ladder.

Melbourne City climb into third place after surviving a frenetic 3-2 A-League thriller against 10-man Central Coast, thanks to some luck and Paul Izzo's goalkeeping implosion.