Aimee Volkofsky

More than 100 dancers from across the country will come together at Mutawintji National Park in August for what is only the second gathering of its kind since colonisation.

A newly funded pipeline will reconnect the Imperial Lakes Nature Park to Broken Hill's sewerage plant, providing indigenous plants with favourable growing conditions year-round.

A regional animal rescue group based in Broken Hill is facing the possibility of reducing its services or stopping them altogether due to a lack of volunteers.

More than 160 mental health professionals have journeyed to Broken Hill to share resources, knowledge and celebrate each other's achievements.

Broken Hill's Landcare group says the council's decision to remove scores of trees from the city will threaten native species and undermine the character of the town.

The 19th century Pirie Chambers building in western NSW will have work done to its facade and verandah to bring it back to a more visually-appealing condition.

Tadhg Kennelley and Kirby Bentley connect with young people in Broken Hill and Menindee as ambassadors for How's Ya Mate? — a successful local mental health and wellbeing initiative they hope will go national.

Broken Hill Landcare has found several threatened and rare species making a home at a former mining dam that has in recent months become a nature reserve.

A woman in her 60s and another in her 50s have been "severely injured" in an aggressive dog attack in Broken Hill. Both have been airlifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital.

Vet, pilot and grazier Ameliah Scott can now add published author to her list of achievements, with her book The Flying Vet to be published in June.

After being on the market for close to 12 months, Broken Hill's Bells Milk Bar has new owners. The couple came across the business during a brief visit to far west from the Gold Coast for Mundi Mundi Bash and fell in love with the region.

The New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority has announced it will investigate last month's Menindee fish kills as a pollution incident.

Broken Hill City Council is making progress on its promise to replace each of the far west city's entrance signs. Staff hope the first sign will be replaced within a couple of months.

Broken Hill city council's general manager says the local government is dealing with the problem of vandalism on a daily basis.

Following the ecological disaster of the Menindee fish kills, an inquiry timeline has been announced. NSW environment minister Penny Sharpe said the investigation could be underway in a matter of weeks.

This time last year, the council won its case against the architecture firm behind bungled renovations at the centre. But with the firm in administration, the city is yet to recoup its legal bill of more than $10 million.

Animal rescuers say that the tiny, native mammals might be found taking refuge on screen doors, inside umbrellas, jacket pockets or anywhere they can hide away.

The town's only aged care provider says unless it can find extra nurses, it will have to reduce numbers at one of its homes by the end of the year.

Menindee residents say authorities owe them answers as to how flood level predictions were bungled when the Baarka-Darling River broke its banks in January.

Broken Hill residents have come together to support the latest fundraising effort for the family of Ryan Lines, with more than $140,000 raised through a variety of funding streams.

When Abbie Kelly started making little packs of rainbow beads for LGBT kids and their friends to thread on their shoelaces, she had no idea it would catch the imagination of people all over the world.

A legal technicality has left people across far west NSW scratching their heads and wondering if His Majesty owns a small block of land in Wilcannia.

John Pickup's hand was "the first animated object" ever seen on Australian television. But that was just the beginning of his remarkable career.

Major work at Broken Hill Airport is now possible thanks to almost $10 million in funding. 

After almost a decade dry, Peery Lake in far west New South Wales has filled thanks to soaking rains from Queensland, signalling an "amazing boom" of birdlife.