Lucas Forbes

Farmers are no strangers to protecting their homes from bushfires and have welcomed a new trial that will abolish expensive registration fees for private firefighting vehicles.

When Indian mynas move into an area they force native birds out of their wood hollows and kill their chicks, leading to a decline in native bird numbers.

Five years after two southern New South Wales public schools were combined they have split and parents and students are welcoming the decision.

Wagga Wagga, NSW Jess is a reporter based in the Riverina, NSW. She has worked in radio since 2008 and in many regional communities of New South Wales.

Wine growers in New South Wales are celebrating after reporting a 50 per cent increase in yields amid renewed optimism that China's tariffs on the industry will be lifted.

The man who operates a southern New South Wales property that he says is at the centre of an investigation into hundreds of dead horses is denying any wrongdoing.

The RSPCA missed hundreds of dead horse carcasses during investigations into an alleged illegal knackery, a NSW Upper House inquiry has heard.

A New South Wales aquaculture farm will export tens of thousands of native golden perch fingerlings to China as demand grows for Australian fish.

A police officer's admission that he falsified a breath test for the son of a superior officer brought down a "house of cards" on himself, a New South Wales court has heard.

A little-known freshwater fish parasite which can infect humans could be far more widespread than previously thought.