Tim Fookes

Momentum is growing in one of Australia's largest cattle-producing states to overturn a ban on virtual fencing technology. However, a peak animal welfare charity says using electric shocks to train animals raises significant ethical and animal welfare concerns.

After going to the rescue of countless residents and businesses for decades, it's a job this man is unable to stop doing.

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.

Two people are dead and many more are injured following a multi-vehicle crash on the Great Western Highway near Lithgow.

Sarah Ryan lives on a 1,200-hectare sheep farm, but she prefers being indoors, living out her dream of making candles. What started out as a hobby has grown into a fully fledged company.

Soil ecologist Frank Ashwood starting taking macro photographs of the life in UK soil as a COVID project. He has since come to Australia to see what is here. 

The 11km tunnel would ease transport costs, saving trucks from traffic lights, congestion and frequent crashes, farmers say. 

A second person has been charged after three people were hospitalised with stab wounds during an incident at a house in central west New South Wales.

Volunteers are recreating habitat for the fish along Oolong Creek in a bid to boost southern pygmy perch numbers.

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

This woman hopes horse therapy will help share her love of the animal with NDIS clients and people experiencing mental illness.

Eugowra's Lesley and Brian Smith are welcoming the setting up of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the response of insurance companies to Australia's 2022 flood disasters.

A joint training program by TAFE NSW and the education department is opening pathways for high school students to learn about hard work in the shearing sheds.

The luxury fibre has fallen out of favour amid a global slowdown, with some producers choosing to dump lower-grade fleece instead of paying to store it.

Max Hazelton is remembered as a man who "broke a few rules", provided regional Australians with access to air travel and survived six days lost after a crash in NSW, at a memorial service in Orange attended by hundreds.

For miniatures enthusiast Meg Lowe the best thing about living in Oberon is collecting her morning coffee on a horse-drawn cart.

Meg Low has always had a dream of training horses, so when she retired she bought two miniatures, Posie and Chip.

This town of 12,000 had never had a statue of a woman, so locals decided to raise nearly $130,000 to honour its most well known advocate for women's rights, Louisa Lawson.

Four early-career doctors have been removed from the Bathurst Base Hospital after the Royal Australasian College of Physicians withdraws its accreditation to train medical registrars.

Colour runs, zoo visits and tenpin bowling were offered to students in Eugowra to help them through the holidays. As the new school year begins, principals say ongoing counselling will be required.

Police allege the fire at Glenroi Heights Public School in the NSW Central West was deliberately lit.

An investigation, which will be independently reviewed, is launched after a man dies in police custody at Orange in central west New South Wales.

The small community of Cowra on the New South Wales has been left shaken after a dog attack at a local motel has left a two-year-old boy dead.

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

A shallow earthquake hits the NSW South West Slopes, with some residents close to the epicentre describing the sound as "like 20 gas bottles exploding at once".