Conor Burke

Wendy Elizabeth Chattaway has pleaded guilty to some charges related to the fatal crash in southern NSW last year, but had a predatory driving charge dropped. 

Squatter started out as a side hustle and turned into one of the most successful Australian board games ever.

More than 870,000 people in Australia speak little-to-no English and supporting them, from paying bills to sharing their trauma, commonly falls to volunteer translators like Wagga's Shelan Khodedah, who is recording Hayam's experience as an ISIS sex slave.

The new cub at Altina Wildlife Park near Wagga Wagga is the first born in Australia for two years — and with only 10,000 red pandas left worldwide, breeding programs like it are key to survival of the species.

Last year Australia had its highest road death toll since 2019 and experts say one way to bring it down is better data. The call comes after deaths yesterday in Sydney's north-west, the Riverina and central west.

Mothers have cried while telling a NSW inquiry into birth trauma of being ignored and mistreated by hospital staff.

Country road deaths have risen 18 per cent across NSW in the year since findings from a parliamentary inquiry into regional road safety were handed down, with the government yet to respond.

Emergency services were called to the incident on the Sturt Highway at Carrathool, 60 kilometres from Hay, at 2pm on Wednesday.

Irrigators who have for more than a decade been fighting "death by 1,000 cuts" water buybacks say it won't just be those on farms who are hurt by proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

The case brought by the victim of a notorious paedophile priest marked the first time a civil trial against the Catholic Church was heard by a jury, with a lawyer suggesting the high payout awarded served as a "warning shot" across the bow of institutions.

A man has died after a serious crash between a car and a truck near West Wyalong, which the local mayor says is sending shudders through a small town.

An abuse survivor who will potentially receive one of Australia's largest-ever compensation payouts from the Catholic Church says he wants the verdict to give other survivors a "sense of hope".

Bob Holder, also known as "the Cootamundra Cat", won his first event in 1945 when he was 14. Now 92, he rides in an arena that was named in his honour.

The corrections minister said the contract with GEO Group will not be renewed when it expires in March 2025.

The Silo Kick is Mirrool's claim to fame, but the annual event does more than crown the biggest kicker of a football in the New South Wales Riverina town.

Southern Cross Care is closing its facility at Moama in the southern Riverina, leaving residents devastated.

Researchers are now studying the movements of the elusive and endangered Australian painted-snipe after a "sleep deprived" stake-out lasting several days in regional New South Wales.

Julia Cornwell McKean says she comes from a family of motivated problem solvers. The Wiradjuri woman is one of an increasing number of Aboriginal politicians taking up positions on local councils in NSW.

The discovery of an Australian painted-snipe at Lake Cargelligo in the Riverina has twitchers aflutter as sightings of the small bird are so rare that ornithologists don't even know what they sound like.

On Monday evening an 18-year-old man handed himself in to Wagga Wagga police station where he was charged with three offences, including assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

The village of Rankins Springs was once described as "hanging on to life", but after a century of challenges — including four separate pubs burning down — its future is finally looking bright.

A university program that targets students interested in medicine as early as year 9 could prove crucial in addressing Australia's ongoing healthcare crisis.

A cross between tennis, badminton and table tennis, pickleball emerged out of the US in the 1960s and continues to go from strength to strength in Australia.

The Maternity Consumer Network filed a complaint with the Health Care Complaints Commission on behalf of 30 women who say they experienced traumatic birthing experiences at Wagga Wagga Base hospital.

A standing committee found that laying cables underground would be too costly and could put the electricity grid under pressure, incensing landowners and opposing politicians who said the finding was predetermined.