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Malyangapa Baaka Wiimpatja artist Leroy Johnson says the axing of an arts grant, which he is the last recipient of, has left the Broken Hill arts community feeling unsupported. 

Barkindji mother-of-two Sonya Dutton, 31, was found in her family's Wilcannia residence on March 29, 2022 — four days after she was reportedly last seen.

A NSW inquest has been told exploding lithium-ion batteries caused volatile fires killing three people in separate blazes within minutes.

Alice Wilkinson loved music and was the life of the party. Her death has prompted her family to help others who might be struggling.

Regional ratepayers are shouldering higher energy bills than their city counterparts, and their councils have had enough.

Two outback stations 800 kilometres west of Sydney are purchased by the state government in an effort to protect the environment. 

Only 15.6 per cent of national child protection funding goes towards family support services aimed at keeping families intact, a report has found. Advocates are urging the government to "invest in families, not crisis".

Broken Hill will be the location of Australia's first large-scale compressed air energy storage system. What is it and how does it work?

One man, one little yellow Vespa and a 12,000-kilometre road trip to attend every Ashes Test.

With Broken Hill's Barrier Truth newspaper in the process of selling off its usable assets, some wonder if its still-working press would be more valuable as scrap or even a museum piece.

For months, people in remote Indigenous communities have been reporting skin rashes after going in the water, and a report confirms something is wrong with the river.

When there are so few taxis in your regional city that you can actually use, it can be detrimental to your independence when it no longer shows up.

Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Kyle Chalmers is inspiring young and aspiring athletes, and speaking about the importance of mental health. 

One of the few childcare operators in Broken Hill has closed its doors indefinitely with 24 hours warning after entering voluntary administration.

Gurmesh Singh's election as the new leader of the NSW Nationals is being hailed as great news for Indian Sikh communities across the state.

For the past 25 years the "king of weeds", Mark Facer, has been chasing and eradicating weeds. Now he has been called in to help graziers in far west NSW with the worst mesquite infestation he has seen.

US-based Air T will become the new owner of Regional Express Holdings (Rex) after creditors voted in favour of a deal to keep the airline's regional operations in the air. 

Drivers on regional roads are being warned of an increase in kangaroo activity on South Australian roads, with large mobs of roos seen lining roads at dawn and dusk, creating growing safety concerns for road users.

Animals and plants aren't automatically taken off most national and state extinct species list in Australia if they are rediscovered, leaving them without protection as threatened species.

The consequences of a contaminated biopsy sample, which led to a man being wrongly diagnosed with lung cancer and having part of his lung unnecessarily removed, were "profound", a coroner has found.