Hugh Hogan

A NSW magistrate found there was reasonable doubt Molong-based trainer Augustus Weekes gave the greyhound alcohol, despite declaring him an "unreliable" witness.

There are serious concerns for a population of endangered Macquarie perch at Bathurst after a deadly virus was confirmed to be behind a recent fish kill in Lithgow.

Investigations have begun into the deaths of large numbers of redfin at Lake Wallace near Lithgow in New South Wales.

Two bolts of lightning struck the Catholic Church in central NSW on Tuesday night, sending "an explosion" of bricks onto the road.

Hundreds of nursing vacancies across the state are being filled by agency nurses on locum rates, in a cycle described by health officials as "completely unsustainable".

Remote Area Firefighters are at work near Bylong where a grassfire sparked by a train derailment on Wednesday has been controlled.

The federal government has reneged on a $2-billion funding promise for the troubled Great Western Highway project between Katoomba and Lithgow, with a former transport minister slamming the missed opportunity for a "proper highway". 

Bobby Bourke has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, but he will not serve time behind bars, after being found guilty of misconduct in public office for helping to blackmail fellow councillor Jacqui Rudge in 2020.

A greyhound trainer accused of fixing a race says he didn't give one of his dogs actual "liqueur", as police phone taps appear to show.

Central west and northern NSW are watching and waiting for a change in weather in the hope it'll ease a severe day of bushfires.

Independent federal Senator David Pocock has hit back at the No campaign slogan "If you don't know, vote no" during a regional Yes Voice forum in Orange.

Police say a man in his 30s has died after being trapped inside a truck that crashed south of Wellington in central west NSW.

Paramedics performed CPR on the man, but he died on the way to hospital. A 52-year-old woman was arrested at the scene.

Police are investigating a "suspicious" fire that has severely damaged a primary school.

An 83-year-old woman who fainted into floodwater while waiting to be rescued is the first Eugowra resident to move out of temporary accommodation nine months on from the disaster.

A man has died in a car crash on Mount Panorama near Bathurst in the Central West of New South Wales.

The NSW government has announced $9 million in grants for districts flooded across the Central West last year, but one federal MP says the funding doesn't go far enough.

A parliamentary inquiry is is weighing up the environmental risks and financial impacts of putting transmission lines from renewable energy projects underground.

Brendan Thomas Doolan, a 33-year-old father of three, is sentenced to 18 years in prison after being found guilty of murder in the Supreme Court earlier this year.

Honey producers remain confident varroa mite can be contained despite 23 hives having to be euthanased in state's central west.

A magistrate tells the court the Molong man poses an "unacceptable" risk despite being incapacitated in intensive care.

A massive volunteer effort sees135 air-conditioning units installed in the town of Eugowra as it recovers from an "inland tsunami".

Cadia Valley Operations says the NSW mine has breached clean air rules but maintains public health is not at risk.

A greyhound breeder from NSW's central west has faced court charged with corrupting the outcome of a race and gambling on it.

Robert "Bobby" Bourke was on trial for his role in the attempted blackmail of fellow Bathurst councillor Jacqui Rudge in March 2020.