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The tribunal overseeing energy prices in New South Wales is investigating whether power infrastructure company Transgrid failed to provide a reliable supply to residents in the far west after a second outage within a week.

Residents in the far west of New South Wales will be without power until Tuesday afternoon as the sole generator being used since wild weather brought down transmission towers has shut down.

Broken Hill's power supply was disrupted by a storm which damaged energy infrastructure in the isolated outback town.

Rolling blackouts are still impacting residents in the state's far west after severe storms flattened high-voltage transmission towers last week. The NSW opposition has called for the area to be declared a natural disaster zone.

Power has been cut to residents in parts of outback NSW overnight, as authorities seek to secure supply to the region after transmission towers were significantly damaged when wild weather ripped across the state last week.

If you have baulked at the price of table grapes at the supermarket lately the good news is they could drop by up to $10/kg when the Australian season brings locally-grown produce to the shelves.

Farmers fear a company that "couldn't do the right thing" when exploring western NSW for rare earth minerals won't be able to manage if its project goes into full production.

The River Murray is expected to emit an unpleasant odour this week but experts say it has been years since they have seen it so healthy.

For three decades, hundreds of notebooks filled with detailed descriptions of sacred Indigenous practices were locked away in a museum's archives. Now, Ngadjuri man Vincent Copley Junior hopes to finally have access to his great-grandfather's history.

Scientists say rotting dead fish from a massive fish kill at Menindee earlier this year may create a domino effect on water quality if oxygen levels in the river plummet again putting more fish under stress.

When you live hundreds or even thousands of kilometres from the nearest coastline, fresh seafood can be hard to come by. Fortunately, rural Australia has an "inland lobster" with a flavour described as "just like eating prawns and crayfish".

He didn't know it at the time, but Wes Herring wasn't standing alone on the precipice of breaking point — we explore how he and others are overcoming the mental torments of life on the land.

Growing watermelons in NSW's Far West to the scale the Gebert family planned had never been done before, but where there is a will, there is a way.

When it comes to the art of picking a good watermelon, Nick Gebert is well versed in the process.

Five decades ago, when geologist Jim Bowler brushed sand away from the dome of an ancient human cranium, it changed the way we thought about Australia's past.

Tens of millions of native fish have perished along the Darling River over the past five years following a series of mass kills. In an attempt to mitigate future deaths the NSW government is trialling technology that pumps pure oxygen into the water. 

Locals say communication from Water NSW was poor, and requests to release more water from dams were ignored during meetings.

Darren and Deana Tangey were looking for a career change when they decided to take on the challenge of running two outback pubs.

For Paul Grose, damage to his home during flooding in late 2022 was "devastating". He hopes a recent review into the event will help authorities prevent others from experiencing the same fate.

This 64-year-old outback man recently had skin cancer removed from the top of his head.  It is one of hundreds he has had after a youth spent in the sun.