Staff at one of Australia's busiest airports have been setting up camp and sleeping at work, which they say is because they cannot afford to go home between shifts.

NSW hospital patients whose private medical records were found in a public carpark and on a footpath were not informed of the privacy breach, documents reveal.

Airline REX says six of its planes will remain grounded, pending the outcome of an investigation into a plane that lost a propeller.

Wests Tigers respond to horror start to season by announcing the sacking of coach Jason Taylor.

Gold Coast, St George Illawarra and Newcastle face fines totalling $350,000 after being issued with breach notices for failing to follow the NRL's concussion rules during round three.

With housing affordability a huge concern for many Sydney residents, one organisation is offering low- to middle-income earners the opportunity to live smaller and more cheaply in micro apartments.

Intense storms over parts of the New South Wales north coast over the weekend have caused flash flooding and damaged farmland.

A musical miner from Russia who was instrumental in establishing orchestras in the Hunter Valley is being remembered for Harmony Day.

A three-year-old Hunter Valley karate kid with a rare genetic condition is fighting for a better life as his family heads to the US to lobby for a key medication.

Olympic gold medallist Danielle Roche will stand against long-time incumbent John Coates for the Australian Olympic Committee presidency, citing a significant cut to the position's salary as one of her key priorities.

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A 23-year-old is missing after being swept off rocks by five-metre swells along with another foreign student at Nobbys Beach at Newcastle in the New South Wales Hunter region.

In the next 20 years Sydney's west is expected to bear the brunt of population growth and areas traditionally used to grow food for people in the city are being squeezed out by developers.

More Egyptian migrants are expected to call the New South Wales mid-north coast home after the opening of a Christian Coptic Orthodox Church at Cundletown.

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Ashley Sullivan from the NSW State Emergency Service updates the weather situation.

The dusty but iconic St Patrick's Races in outback New South Wales give young Adelaide jockey Justin Huxtable the most prestigious win of his short career.

A Sydney teenager's online petition prompts the New South Wales Government to cut the cost of car parking at public hospitals by about $200 a week.

Rough seas hamper the search for a Pakistani national missing after being swept off rocks with another foreign student and into the sea at Nobbys Beach at Newcastle.

A professor who has been at the forefront of providing health care vulnerable people around Sydney's Kings Cross for 30 years is calling for drug use to be decriminalised.

Round three of the NRL wraps up as Canberra hammers the Wests Tigers before Cronulla is shocked by St George Illawarra.

The New South Wales Corrections Minister defends a rise in Indigenous incarceration rates, saying the issue should not be judged on race.

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Facing retirement as one of New South Wales' longest serving police chiefs, Andrew Scipione says his work is not done in addressing domestic violence, the scourge of ice and associated violent crime, March 19, 2017.

Residents in northern New South Wales are warned of severe thunderstorms with the potential to cause flash flooding, after a weekend of wild weather.

Facing retirement as one of New South Wales' longest serving police chiefs, Andrew Scipione says his work is not done in addressing domestic violence, the scourge of ice and associated violent crime.

Of all the nicknames the Sydney Harbour Bridge has received in the past 85 years, the Iron Lung is one that echoes its significance for those who built it between 1923 and 1932.

Louis Nowra's new history of the Sydney neighbourhood of Woolloomooloo is affectionate but shines light in some dark corners.

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