Above average fire danger this week

The Beach to Bush team from Surf Life Saving NSW is traveling through the Central West to help teach safety awareness in the water to children in the bush.

Girls and young women across regional and rural NSW are showing everyone they know how to handle a bushfire as they partake in the Girls on Fire emergency training. 

The Regional Telecommunications Review received a record number of submissions highlighting the struggles of getting good internet and mobile service in regional and rural areas.

A national report flags a troubling trend towards falling water safety skills among the younger generations.

Among the new laws to protect renters in NSW is at least one that could come at a high cost to rental property owners

A new partnership between the Warren Jockey Club and Women in Cotton brings a fresh look to the Cotton Cup. Join the inaugural Marquee Luncheon on 10 November.

Aboriginal Languages Week was celebrated across the state last week

Western travellers will benefit from Mitchell Highway upgrades set to start this month

Brewarrina Shire Council are calling on residents, local businesses and stakeholders to come together to help create a plan to make the shire more active.

A 21-year-old driver lost control of a vehicle on Gulargambone Road Thursday afternoon.

Firefighters put out a grass blaze that spread to neighbouring crops and affected over 85 hectares of land near Mount Tenandra yesterday.

Read the full race report by Colin Hodges here.

A visit to the Macquarie Marshes before re-working the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Police are asking for anyone with information related to the death of a 47-year-old woman in Bourke to come forward.

Top prizes for Baradine and Nyngan hotels in accommodation stakes.

Five people were arrested after a 40-year-old man sustained a serious laceration on his arm during an affray in Coonamble earlier this week.

Telstra's 3G network was shut down on Monday, stakeholders say its not the end of the story.

A visit to the Macquarie Marshes before re-working the Murray Darling Basin Plan

The NSW government dropped the recommended breast screening age for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women from 50 to 40 to increase breast cancer survival rates.