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New South Wales has recorded 1035 new local cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, a slight increase on...

NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said today 800 tickets were handed out overnight, and 50 charges for br...

The most common infringement notices were for people failing to comply with the health directions such as h...

Todays numbers mark the highest daily total yet across the state and the single biggest jump day on day si...

AYLIN WOODWARD, BUSINESS INSIDER 2 JULY 2021 Record heat and growing wildfires are creating firestorms that can generate their own lightning in the skies above British Columbia, Canada. As heat and smoke from large fires rise skyward, they can create firestorms comprised of what are known as pyrocumulonimbus clouds. These thunderheads produce their own weather, including tornadoes in rare cases, which can then spark new fires. Its a vicious cycle.   Temperatures in Lytton, 153 km (95 miles)...

Most Australians are in for a wetter than average winter off the back of heavy rain throughout Autumn prom...

Researchers found that people's bodies don't lose resiliency until well into their 100s.

A flood warning for low-lying communities in Sydneys southwest has been upgraded after heavy rainfall across the city. Waters are continuing to rise on the Nepean River in Menangle, near Campbelltown, with the Bureau of Meteorology upgrading its flood warning to moderate. The Nepean is now expected to peak at 9.2 metres at around 4pm this afternoon - almost three metres higher than forecast earlier today. Motorists are being urged to avoid the area if possible and residents in low-lying areas a...

Australian farmers are set to reap a record $66 billion for their produce this year despite disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic and trade disputes with China. New figures from the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) show that average farm incomes have risen 18 per cent, to $184,000 per farm. The agriculture sector in 2020-2021 will deliver a $5 billion increase on Australian farmings previous record year in 2016-2017. READ MORE: Australian grain far...

Once in a lifetime pink flowers emerge from burnt landscapes We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement A sea of colour has swept across wide swaths of the Blue Mountains just a year on from the huge bushfires as long-dormant pink flannel flowers spring to life. The flowers, known as bushfire ephemerals because their seeds only germinate after fire, are blooming in formerly burnt landscapes from Katoomba to Lithgow and no...