Northwest communities around the Lightning Ridge opal fields are now better protected from bushfires following the Minns Labor Government’s completion of more than $1.35 million in fire trail upgrades ...

Police have dismantled a large-scale drug syndicate in the central west. Tanya is a journalist based at the Central Western ...

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Here is a list of matters listed at Lightning Ridge Local Court on Thursday. Today's court listings are published as part of ...

Australia's Lightning Ridge in northeastern New South Wales, where the fossils were found, now has the most diverse range of monotreme fossils on record, all from the Cenomanian period between ...

Lightning Ridge is the only place in the world where the black opal is found. This frontier town, 350 mi/565 km northwest of Sydney in New South Wales, is also the best place to buy this rare gem ...

Forget eco-friendly de-icers. Wetlands can diminish road salt runoff ...

Today's court listings are published as part of News Corporation's commitment to public interest journalism and are compiled from information made publicly available by the courts in each State ...

winds and lightning lashed a swathe of Australia's southeast on Wednesday. The driver, believed to be in his 80s, was killed in Cowra as a thunderstorm tore through central NSW before settling ...

At Tweed Heads a car was crushed by a falling tree and a motorist reported numerous lightning strikes and heavy rain on a major motorway. Wild storms in northern New South Wales this morning have ...

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