Police have received more than 20 reports of coercive control since the new laws came into effect at the start of July, tackling abusive and manipulate behaviours against victim-survivors.
'Gunshot wounds, snake bites': The young women swapping city life to learn new skills as rural vets
Vet Michelle Noga moved from Sydney to regional NSW, and says living in a country town brings more than just career benefits.
Man pleads guilty to charges committed minutes before crash killed woman, three children
Tanya Murphy and three boys were killed in a single-vehicle crash which occurred just 15 minutes after the domestic violence offences.
Photo shows two woman standing in front of tiled shop front, the one on the right is holding a takeaway container.Going against the flow: The argument for water buybacks to help farmers and the environment
Farmers have blocked NSW streets with tractors to protest water buybacks but some continue to support them, as an academic claims they are three times cheaper than saving water through infrastructure projects.
Photo shows Man with dogFarmers take water buyback fight to the streets to keep communities alive
Irrigators who have for more than a decade been fighting "death by 1,000 cuts" water buybacks say it won't just be those on farms who are hurt by proposed changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.
Photo shows A big green tractor with protest bannerWorker accommodation for medical staff should ease rental struggles in six NSW towns
Medical staff travelling to the Murrumbidgee, Southern NSW, and the Far West will have access to accommodation services, with the construction of 20 units near Broken Hill Hospital expected to be completed by early 2025.
Photo shows Three men and two women stand together. Two of the men wear blue shirts with the third in pink shirt and suit.Is it disrespectful to sell kava in supermarkets?
A critic says the commercialisation of the drug is potentially dangerous and culturally insensitive, but others say the "great alternative to alcohol" has never been hard to source in the west.
Photo shows A close up shot of a young woman with dyed red braids wearing a blue sweater and staring off into the distance.This fast-growing game is quirky, easy to play and the saviour for some sports clubs
A cross between tennis, badminton and table tennis, pickleball emerged out of the US in the 1960s and continues to go from strength to strength in Australia.
Photo shows Two older men playing pickleball with one man attempting to strike the plastic ball with his paddleMichelle will not visit a lake where she once spent every weekend, as fears grow it could be leading to a cluster of MND
Cases of motor neurone disease have surged by more than 250 per cent in the past 30 years, and advocates are calling for more research funding to find out why.
Photo shows Michelle Vearing stands hold onto a wire fence in front of Lake Wyangan in Grifftih.How this 17-year-old innovator helped 300 Indigenous kids learn to swim
When Piper Stewart was 12, she noticed there weren't many other Indigenous children at her local pool in Griffith, NSW. So she raised $40,000 to give them swimming lessons.
Photo shows A young woman smiling in front of an indoor pool.'It’s opened Dad’s eyes': Grace grew up thinking her brother would get the farm. Things have changed in her life time
For a long time, the eldest son has been seen as the natural successor to a family farm. But there is change on the horizon.
Photo shows a woman smiles into the distance next to a cane fieldWoman faces court charged in relation to Yanco crash that killed four
Wendy Elizabeth Chattaway, 51, appears in court accused of causing a car crash that killed a woman and three children in south-western NSW in April.
Photo shows wreck of a small car on a tow truckWoman chased car, causing it to crash and kill four, police say
Wendy Elizabeth Chattaway, 51, is charged with predatory driving in relation to the horror crash which saw a car hit a pole and roll into a water channel in regional NSW.
Photo shows wreck of a small car on a tow truckDriver to front court for 'predatory driving' in fatal Yanco crash that killed three children
A woman in her 50s will front court today for predatory driving in a fatal crash that killed a 36-year-old woman and three boys near Leeton in April.
Photo shows Police vehicle and tape block off a crime scene in Yanco, NSWTanya Murphy farewelled six weeks after horror car crash killed four in Yanco
The NSW mother of seven is remembered as a generous friend, carer and "beautiful" person at a funeral following the crash that killed two of her sons and a nephew.
Photo shows two woman standing in front of tiled shop front, the one on the right is holding a takeaway container.'Two lives taken too soon': Young brothers killed in horror crash farewelled in moving funeral
Nathaniel and Jeremiah Schmetzer have been remembered as being full of life and love at a twin ceremony in NSW's south.
Photo shows Picture of Nathaniel and Jeremiah Schmetzer on a heart shaped badge pinned to a mournerPolice allege man broke into woman's home just before crash that killed her and three children
Court documents link man in custody on domestic violence offences to a single-car crash that killed a woman and three boys in the New South Wales Riverina.
Photo shows A bunch of flowers infront of a road closed signMan expected to be charged, community in despair after woman, three children die in crash
Police have confirmed that the woman and the boys, 10, 11 and 12, were related to each other. A 32-year-old man remains in custody as part of the investigation.
Photo shows tow tuck carrying the wreck of a small car parked in fron of a police carGenetic rice trials to help industry achieve 'aspirational' water efficiency target
Trials have begun to create rice varieties that don't need as much water to grow. It comes as growers question if the industry's new target can be reached in the time frame given.
Photo shows Two paddocks of rice crop with water channels and a bay between them.Aurora australis is normally synonymous with Antarctica, but we're seeing it further north
Photographers and stargazers spot auroras further north than usual. Why is this happening and how much longer will it last?
Photo shows An ambulance vehicle with the aurora australis and stars in the background.LGBT communities safer thanks to change championed over decades by marchers in first Mardi Gras
Ray Goodlass and Denise McGrath marched in Australia's first Mardi Gras in 1978, and decades later are still making a difference for their communities.
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