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 ...

Bill Kotru has seen many mines give way during the 43 years he has been digging for opal in Lightning Ridge ... closed two roads in the north-western NSW town after dips began appearing in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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