Lucy Thackray

The Dharriwaa Elders Group say flood-struck Aboriginal communities are being forced to choose between dispossession or homelessness due to a lack of emergency accommodation. 

Receding floodwaters are allowing some evacuated residents to fully comprehend the extent of damage to their homes and businesses.

A pregnant woman whose waters broke during a near-record flood has been rescued by the State Emergency Services and rushed to hospital just in time to give birth.

With around 1,000 Forbes residents already affected by flood evacuation warnings in NSW, the SES is urging people to be aware of the danger as a river peak looms. Crews also rescue a pregnant woman in labour overnight.

After four-and-a-half hours of deliberation, the jury has returned a guilty verdict in the Bowie murder trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court.

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The jury has been told that in the 40 years since Ms Bowie's disappearance, police have never contacted experts to establish important facts for the case.

Prosecutors tell the Supreme Court that John Bowie, who is accused of murdering his wife 40 years ago, invited a neighbour into his house on the night Roxlyn disappeared as part of a "staged performance".

A man charged with murdering his wife has been accused of being violent to two former partners in court. 

Former colleagues of a man accused of murdering his wife have told a court about separate occasions when he said "pigs don't leave any evidence".

The jail sentence for an unlicensed driver who killed two young brothers in NSW while under the influence of drugs is too short, the victims' family say, after learning he may be eligible for parole in nine years.

A jury has heard John Bowie, who is accused of killing his wife Roxlyn 40 years ago, admitted to having affairs with other women.

Evacuation orders are issued in parts of New South Wales, dozens of people are rescued from floodwaters, and the SES fields hundreds of calls for help after wild weather hits already flooded parts of the state.

As the ADF prepares to mount flood rescues across NSW, yet another rain trough is forecast to sweep across water-logged eastern Australia.

Water New South Wales says it is highly likely several major dams will spill this weekend as authorities prepare for the worst.

The Bureau of Meteorology briefs the SES as it prepares for another week of concerning conditions with much of the state's west already impacted by floods as rain falls on already full catchments and rivers.

John and Roxlyn Bowie's only living child has told a court she witnessed her father being violent towards her mother.

A man accused of killing his wife and "feeding her to pigs" 40 years ago has been defended in his murder trial.

A court has been told that Roxlyn Bowie was killed by her husband 40 years ago while living in outback New South Wales so he could assume an "unfettered relationship" with another woman.

While inland NSW is being inundated with water, regional leaders in the state's west are urging the government not to forget about preparing for the "inevitable" next drought.

Several people have been rescued from flooded vehicles in western NSW and heavy downpours are forecast to continue pounding rain-soaked regions along the coast overnight.

With an extremely wet year leaving soil saturated in western NSW, the RFS finds that goats can go where machinery can't.

Ricky "Dougie" Hampson Junior died from perforated stomach ulcers hours after being discharged from Dubbo Base Hospital. His family say he was not properly examined.

After years of delays and false starts, the major jobs driver will start operating next month.

Initial attempts to control a fire that threatened homes, a solar farm and substation in the state's central west were unsuccessful as fire trucks could not get through the wet paddocks.