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Parents of school age children and first-home buyers are set to benefit from a NSW budget that the Treasurer says is the "envy of the Western world".
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Explore who wins and who loses as a result of New South Wales Treasurer Dominic Perrottet's budget.
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Australia's most populous state is in the midst of a boom that just keeps on giving and outperforming its peers in economic growth, employment, debt and revenue, explains ABC News business editor Ian Verrender.
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Regional communities are being touted as winners in this year's New South Wales budget, crowned by a Regional Growth Fund of more than $1 billion for projects to promote economic advancement outside of cities.
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Police arrest the estranged husband of NSW school teacher Sharon Edwards, who was last seen on a night out with friends in Grafton in March 2015.
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Shopping centres and entertainment complexes across NSW conduct urgent fire safety checks to investigate whether they contain flammable aluminium cladding, similar to the kind thought to have been used in the tragic London Grenfell fire.
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Iranian woman Mojgan Shamsalipoor has been living in Brisbane for the past nine months after being released from immigration detention. But she says her future in Australia has been "destroyed" after being told she could face deportation by the end of the year.
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Soldiers training at North Head used to brag about bashing gay men and treated it as "fun and games", a witness tells the inquest into Scott Johnson's death.
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North Korea says the now-dead American student suffered severe brain damage following a bout of botulism while in custody, but medical experts have cast doubt over the claim.
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Australia temporarily halts air operations over Syria after the United States downs a Syrian military jet that dropped bombs near US-led Coalition fighters in western Raqqa.
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Former mayor of Ipswich Paul Pisasale is charged with extortion and two other offences after being questioned by the Crime and Corruption Commission.
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Footage recorded from inside a fire engine making its way to the Grenfell Tower fire shows the shock and disbelief of firefighters as the scale of the blaze becomes apparent.
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Rosalind Croucher will replace Gillian Triggs as the new President of the Human Rights Commission, and while many have welcomed the choice, one group has lashed out at the "Triggs-lite appointment".
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AFL players will receive a 20 per cent pay rise this season after agreeing to a new six-year deal with the league worth $1.84 billion that ties their wages to competition revenue for the first time.
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An amateur photographer with a passion for preserving Australian history uses old railway lines to lead him to relics that have withstood the test of time.
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If you're having a bad day, spare a thought for Mr Flea. A 300 gram ball of gunk has been removed from his penis. The vet who removed the "huge ball of smegma" says it might be the biggest ever found.
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The Federal Government will intervene to restrict gas exports in a move Malcolm Turnbull argues will put downward pressure on power prices.
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The peak body for independent schools in New South Wales is demanding equal treatment after learning the Federal Government is negotiating a special funding deal with the Catholic sector.
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The Bangarra Dance Theatre prepares for its newest challenge — portraying the life of Woollarawarre Bennelong, the first Indigenous man to travel to Europe and return.
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The construction boom is starting to weigh on Melbourne and Brisbane apartment markets where prices are starting to fall.
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The man who allegedly shouted "I want to kill more Muslims" after driving a van into worshippers outside Finsbury Park is described by friends and neighbours as someone who kept to himself but was, seemingly, a "normal bloke".
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A mother and calf humpback whale that appeared to be stuck inside a north-west Australian coral reef long after they should have migrated south to feed, seem to have made an unlikely escape to safety.
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A boy in the care of child protection in the Northern Territory was covered in infected cockroach bites and had track marks down his arms when taken back into care by his mother, a royal commission hears.
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A 20-year-old Perth man who was filmed kicking a quokka on Rottnest Island "just can't account" for his actions and has since received death threats, a court is told.
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Playing State Of Origin seems like one of the hardest things an athlete can do, but it is nothing compared to watching your son from the sidelines.
