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A man has died after the crop dusting aircraft he was in crashed into a paddock near Bourke in western New South Wales.

Thousands of Australians who collectively lost millions of dollars to failed funeral insurer Youpla could now get some of their money back, under a newly announced government scheme.

An official survey estimates the roo population declined significantly across New South Wales in the past 12 months, yet farmers say numbers appear healthy.

The Indigenous mother of a 15-year-old girl who died on a highway with her cousin 35 years ago tells an inquest into their deaths she felt discriminated against during the initial investigation, which the counsel assisting the coroner has blasted for a litany of failures.

A senior detective tells an inquest into the historic deaths of two Aboriginal girls on a NSW highway that manslaughter charges against a non-Indigenous man would have been more appropriate.

Lack of public awareness around self-managed funds is leaving people vulnerable to scams.

ABC News has exclusively traced a devastating case of financial crime described as "bizarre". It comes as the financial watchdog reveals that investment scams are on the rise in Australia.

In a world where recipes can be accessed with a keystroke, well-thumbed, old cookbooks can provide more than nostalgia and the comforts of home — they're a snapshot of who we are and where we've come from.

B-Town Warriors enjoyed international success and won a national Indigenous music award back in 2018, and has now re-formed to inspire a new generation.

The mother and aunt of two Indigenous teenagers who died in Bourke in 1987 has told a coronial inquest that she was never contacted by police, and learned of her daughter's death through her brother.

An inquest has heard from a former senior police officer, who admitted he accepted at face value, a non-Indigenous man's account of a fatal road accident, which killed two Aboriginal girls in the 1980s.

A retired police officer has told an inquest he suspected a man had sexually interfered with a teenage girl after she died in a road crash in Bourke in 1987.

The crash investigator tells an inquest there was "something not right" about the initial investigation into the 1987 crash in regional NSW.

The system already dumped a month's worth of rain in an hour on parts of Adelaide on Tuesday morning, and is now heading towards the eastern states.

Three decades on an inquest has resumed into a road crash which killed two aboriginal teenagers in the NSW far west.

A witness has told an inquest of the catastrophic injuries he saw at a crash he and his brother came across in far western NSW.

A coronial inquest into the deaths of two Indigenous girls killed in the 1980s will be reopened next week.

It's been more than 35 years since the deaths of Mona Lisa and Jacinta "Cindy" Smith, and the family continues to question what exactly happened that night, and how their two girls ended up dead.

Fresh milk is a staple in many people's refrigerators, but for the Far West New South Wales town of Brewarrina, it went missing from households and businesses for close to two weeks last month.

The ABC spoke to a number of First Nations people in Sydney and the regions to hear what the Voice means to them.

With no local maternity services, women in Bourke cannot have their babies on country, but they are being welcomed back to their ancestral land.

Over $7bn has been spent trying to increase the amount of water going to parts of the Murray-Darling basin, but scientists say not enough is getting there.

A group of scientists finds despite billions of dollars spent on the Murray Darling Basin Plan, many of the indicators used to measure whether the environment is receiving enough water have been getting worse.

The NSW Rural Fire Service issues an extreme fire danger rating for the Upper Central West Plains, with a high fire danger rating also in place for the state's North and South Western zones.

Telehealth is revolutionising medicine in remote areas, but one obstetrician says entrusting the delivery of a baby to "pure luck" in Australia during 2023 "isn't good enough".