New South Wales, Australia

Nine injured in New South Wales hot air balloon crash. now. share. Source: AAP. A hot air balloon has crashed in the NSW Hunter Valley, injuring nine people. Hot air balloon. Source: 1 NEWS. The balloon, which AAP understands was being operated by Balloon Aloft Australia, came down on McDonalds Road in Pokolbin ...

CORNING - John Barilaro, Deputy Premier Minister for New South Wales, was one of three Australian officials that met Wednesday with local leaders to discuss the best practice to build a robust, sustainable economy. The Australian officials, who are currently in the preliminary stages of implementing ...

Power lines were the likely cause of the devastating bushfire that swept through the small town of Tathra on the New South Wales south coast on Sunday, a preliminary investigation has found. The investigation by the Rural Fire Service has found “electrical infrastructure on Reedy Swamp Road” as the ...

In just two days, more than 300 millimetres of rain has fallen in parts of eastern New South Wales, resulting in flash flooding. A low pressure trough moving slowly along the NSW coast brought persistent rain and storms to parts of the Hunter and lower Mid North Coast during the last 36 hours. The heaviest ...

The government of New South Wales, Australia, is setting aside $47 million to help various groups deal with the transition in the face of China's National Sword policy. The money will assist consumers, local councils and the waste industry. China was by far the most popular destination for Australian plastic, ...

The New South Wales coastline has been battered by torrential rain, causing traffic chaos and flash-flooding, especially around Newcastle. Homeowners have done their best to hold back the tide, with the downpour making life difficult from the Hunter region to the harbour and down to Wollongong.

Nineteen people have been infected during the outbreak – linked to a single NSW farm – including three Victorians and three from New South Wales who subsequently died. Dr Vicky Sheppeard, communicable diseases director at NSW Health, said it was possible more listeria cases surface given those ...

A fire that started southeast of Bega, New South Wales has burned east to the Pacific coast destroying homes in its path. The official tally of the affected structures is not available but Campbell Fuller, communications director of the Insurance Council of Australia, said “We are hearing several dozen ...

The New South Wales Food Authority confirmed that investigations into the deadly outbreak began in January. The fruit was pulled from supermarket shelves across the country. More than 500 samples were tested to determine the source, which was eventually traced to a farm at Nericon in the Riverina, ...

A third person has died in Australia after eating melon contaminated with listeria bacteria. Fifteen elderly people have now been infected in the outbreak, which is being linked to a melon-grower in the state of New South Wales. The first two fatalities were from New South Wales, and the third victim was in ...

New South Wales is now the national leader — we have had tremendous discussions with Tasmania and Victoria, and so I am hopeful that will make progress with them very shortly — but the benchmark has been set here and this is about saving lives and protecting lives, it's about giving people the ...

Patients in New South Wales will be able to access medicinal cannabis within days of a doctor prescribing it, in what the federal Health Minister says sets a national benchmark. Health Minister Greg Hunt said the State and Federal Governments had "taken a machete" to red tape in order to provide "direct ...

The New South Wales government has been lashed for omitting requirements for third-party IT service providers to report cybersecurity incidents. The state's auditor-general released a report into the NSW government's ability to detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents, which studied 10 state ...

They're the fabulous old houses that constantly remind us of the rich tapestry of Australia's history, but what is it really like to live in one? It can be heaven under those high ceilings and among those heritage features, some of their owners say. But it can also, they reveal, be absolute hell. When Libby ...

The Australian state of New South Wales has ordered an inquiry into what happens to your social media accounts and digital assets once you're dead. The State's Law Reform Commission has been tasked with probing “whether NSW needs legislation to regulate who can access the digital assets of a ...

An even greater achievement, in my book, was rationalizing the racing in New South Wales and helping to erect a purse structure, which all by itself explains why Australia has such a thriving middle market. They have regulated syndication, made licensing easier so more people get their names in the program, and limited ...

Table toppers Victoria host second-placed New South Wales at the MCG in the second round of the Women's National Cricket League at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this Saturday and Sunday. The Breakers have named the same 12 players which defeated South Australia twice in Round 1, with Lisa Sthalekar the ...

Renewable energy developer Infinergy Pacific, a subsidiary of UK-based firm Infinergy, has sold the 120MW Metz Solar Farm in New South Wales to unnamed clean energy investors. Once constructed, the project near Hillgrove will be one of the largest solar farms in New South Wales, meeting the annual ...