Gary-Jon Lysaght is ABC Riverina's Chief of Staff, based in Wagga Wagga. He grew up in Newcastle and has worked across parts of regional NSW and South Australia.
33-year-old Timacoy Williams has been refused bail after police found two suspected homemade explosives in his vehicle, forcing them to close the Sturt Highway in the Riverina region for eight hours.
Nathaniel and Jeremiah Schmetzer have been remembered as being full of life and love at a twin ceremony in NSW's south.
Residents in Gunnedah, Wagga Wagga and Forbes are being ordered to leave their homes.
Flooding will cut off some communities, but in places like Brewarrina the rejuvenating inflows are more than welcome.
Floodwaters moving quickly through inland rivers across New South Wales has sparked a warning for people to reconsider swimming in affected areas.
Teachers at a Dubbo public school aren't striking today, to allow for the return of students after a fire destroyed buildings there last week.
The cause of a fire that destroyed four classrooms at a Dubbo school is to be investigated.
The north-western New South Wales community of Brewarrina is set to have a majority Indigenous council after this weekend's local government election, with seven of the 10 candidates identifying as Aboriginal.
An early childhood centre in Bourke, 750km west of Sydney, is providing play sessions and developing kids' motor skills online, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues across western NSW.
Brewarrina has only seen two cases of COVID-19 during Western NSW's outbreak, faring much better than its neighbours. Here's how the locals did it.
Grocery store manager Paresh Patel and his staff are among those doing all they can to help the community weather the pandemic.
The Mungindi Community Store is set up in the town's RSL and bowling club, providing locals with the opportunity to get essential goods as border closures drag on.
A resident of the St Mary's aged care facility in Dubbo has passed away. Health authorities said she had significant underlying health conditions.
The Wellington Aboriginal Corporation Health Services, which supports around 5,000 people, requested the move after being alerted to internal financial discrepancies.
The COVID-19 death toll in western New South Wales has reached seven, after three more deaths were recorded.
People living in Walgett in north-western New South Wales no longer need to isolate while awaiting COVID-19 test results, aiming to raise numbers in a town which saw only 80 tests on Monday.
Low vaccination rates, few GPs and a system that was limping before the pandemic began could be a recipe for disaster in regional NSW, doctors warn.
Only 2,200 COVID-19 tests were carried out in the LHD yesterday and health authorities say the simultaneous decline in case numbers is "extremely worrying".
An Aboriginal man in his 60s from Dubbo has died in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney after contracting the Delta variant.
Health authorities in western NSW are urging Aboriginal people to mourn the death of an Enngonia woman by attending livestreamed funerals and staying at home.
An unvaccinated Aboriginal woman in her 70s, from Enngonia, north of Bourke, is the second person to die from COVID-19 in western NSW.
In locked down Dubbo, Wiradjuri elder Frank Doolan praises the Indigenous community's response to a COVID crisis heaping pressure on their lives and emotional wellbeing.
As the city passes 500 infections, it remains at the centre of the regional New South Wales caseload, with health officials repeating calls for people to get tested in greater numbers.
Aboriginal leaders began raising the need for their communities to be vaccinated last year. Now the Delta strain has infected hundreds and many remain exposed.
First cases in Narromine, Gilgandra, and Broken Hill are confirmed, while an additional 18 new cases were reported in Dubbo overnight, as the virus spreads to the state's most remote communities.