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BlueScope, Rio Tinto and BHP say Australia needs a commercially viable alternative to blast furnace steelmaking, but securing enough gas and green hydrogen will be a challenge.

A magistrate grants a forensic order allowing police to do an external examination and take DNA samples from 48-year-old Milenko Snjegota, whose father's body was found by a neighbour outside the pair's home on Sunday.

The closure of the Russell Vale mine in Wollongong prompts calls for miners to be given better re-employment options.

The charge comes after the accused's father was found dead with head injuries at a home just south of Wollongong.

The troubled Russell Vale Colliery, located in the northern Illawarra region of New South Wales, has notified its workforce of its impending closure. 

Police attended a home in the Wollongong suburb of Farmborough Heights after a neighbour discovered the 74-year-old man's body.

Wollongong surgeon Laurencia Villalba's technique uses a catheter to "destroy" and "dissolve" pulmonary embolisms. Here's how it works.

Young people say a "flaky" train system and limited bus timetable in Western Sydney leave them reliant on driving, as a state parliamentary inquiry considers the current and future needs of public transport in the booming region. 

After months of protests against offshore wind farm projects, people have gathered in support of turbines being developed off Australia's east coast, hopeful of more work and job security.

An extensive search is underway after a man was swept from rocks while fishing in the Port Stephens area. It comes after a man was found dead on rocks in a separate incident on the NSW North Coast.

The NSW Rural Fire Service says the trial is an opportunity to improve its relationship with farmers and share resources and responsibilities.

Hany Barsoum says he feared for the safety of his staff during the exchange, which he believes "could have been really bad". Meanwhile, police have made courtroom arrest of a man associated with those involved in the incident over an unrelated matter.

Former prison guard Liana Braithwaite has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service for engaging in intimate relations on multiple times with a high-ranking member of the Nomads outlaw motorcycle gang in her care.

A major road linking south-west Sydney to Wollongong has received NSW government approval for a long-awaited upgrade that accounts for impacts on a growing koala colony.

Michael Gill dedicated nearly four decades of his life to building a miniature version of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as a cocktail cabinet, but the ongoing threat of bushfires means it needs a safe home where the public can enjoy it.

Problems for Russell Vale coal mine in Wollongong have escalated with the state's Resources Regulator shutting down work on the site because of safety concerns.

The comedian has a 97-per cent chance of contracting cancer, but taking a genetic test to shed more light on the risk could ruin her chances to obtain life insurance.

From having picnics at the beach near where Mary grew up, to friends of her late mother getting together to mark the milestone, here's how Australians have celebrated the rise of one of their own.

An anti-Zionist activist involved in a protest against an Australian armoured steel manufacturer has pleaded not guilty to assaulting one of the company's employees.

Fisheries officers are expected to take further action against a man for illegally spearing three female blue gropers at Jervis Bay off the NSW South Coast after seizing both the fish and all his fishing gear.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is at risk of suicide if the UK High Court next month rejects his final appeal against extradition to the US, his lawyer warns.

Australian artworks are featured among thousands of others that have been digitised and included in a time capsule sent to the moon.

The fate of a time capsule loaded with thousands of artworks, including pieces by Australians, hangs in the balance as attempts are made to get it back on course. 

To reduce graffiti and vandalism, a traffic signal box program pays artists to design and paint street art onto the big metal box at every light interchange.

Veteran lifeguards in New South Wales say more education about beach safety is required for tourists and people from non-English speaking backgrounds, along with a shake-up of patrolling strategies.