Max Tillman

Denise Lowe and her son have been living in temporary housing since the NSW 2022 floods. They and others faced eviction and homelessness but were thrown a lifeline.  

The mother of a NSW teenager murdered in his bed says "true evil exists" as the 21-year-old killer is sentenced to prison.

A 'hand-picked' team of divers braved big swells to free a humpback whale pinned to the ocean floor off the NSW North Coast. 

Lismore's annual Lantern Parade has never missed a beat in its 30-year history, despite devastating floods and the COVID pandemic. Now it's one of four locations around the world selected for a global study on revelry and resilience.

People living in parts of Mullumbimby in the Byron Shire hinterland are being warned to avoid using groundwater or harvesting homegrown fruit and veggies after PFAS chemicals were detected near their fire station.

Overseas travellers and itinerant workers say they were encouraged to travel to Lismore and squat in flood-affected houses via an online network created during a Tasmanian festival.

For the second time in as many years, a mobile tower in the New South Wales town of Mullumbimby has been toppled in what police suspect was a deliberate act of vandalism.

Staff at the new Tweed Valley Hospital say they have to arrive two hours before a shift to hunt down a place to park. Visitors say they are having similar issues finding free spaces.

Police believe the 38-year-old had an access visit on the day and the boy's mother raised concerns when he was not returned as expected.

The white spot virus found in prawns off northern NSW could be "as uncontainable as COVID" as authorities respond with restrictions on the movement of uncooked prawns.

Theresa Mitchell was named NSW Regional Woman of the Year in March after 15 years of supporting the homeless and those in need, but she and her volunteers are struggling to meet rising demand.

Gomeroi teenager Mark Haines was found dead on train tracks south of Tamworth 36 years ago. Now the second inquest into the circumstances surrounding his death has been adjourned after possible new evidence emerges.

Glenn Mannion has denied ever discussing the circumstances of Mark Haines' mysterious death in 1988 during a fresh coronial inquest in Tamworth.

An inquest into the 1988 death of Mark Anthony Haines hears that on the morning the Gomeroi teenager's body was discovered, one of his friends spoke of being in an accident and said that Mark was dead.

Mystery still surrounds the 1988 death of Gomeroi teen Mark Haines, whose body was found on train tracks just outside of Tamworth. His loved ones hope the new probe will deliver the answers they have sought for so many years.

More than three decades on, the circumstances surrounding the death of Gomeroi teen Mark Haines remain a mystery to his family. They hope this time, a coroner will give them answers.

Mark Ross has spent years volunteering in his community and building a huge amount of trust, but now he says it's hard to carry on. 

Helicopters are being used in northern New South Wales as part of a $600 million program to stamp out red imported fire ants, after nests were detected south of the Queensland border late last year.

Gomeroi people who have successfully appealed against the Narrabri Gas Project say the ruling is groundbreaking and could set a precedent for other major fossil fuel projects.

A country NSW MP says he had been contacted by patients whose elective surgeries were suddenly cancelled by the hospital without any explanation.

The Wolfe Brothers dedicated a song on what is now an award-winning album to their mother, who passed away just before Livin' the Dream was released. Other winners on the night included Newcastle's Max Jackson.

The unsung hero of the baroque world, and the bane of parents across the country, has a welcoming home at the Australasian Recorder Festival this week.

A father-of-three was driving a vehicle that had been out of registration for a month when police tried to stop him at Gunnedah. Three minutes later he crashed while doing more than 170 kilometres an hour.

Telstra apologises after a faulty part leaves business owners and residents in a north west NSW town in a service blackout.

New owners of the circa 1860 building and its trademark, made famous in a Peter Allen ballad, say their aim is to preserve and protect the building's charm.