Lucy Thackray is a reporter with ABC Dubbo.
The vaccine that protects Australians from a serious bacterial infection is expected to run out this week.
An outback town has had a glow-up, transforming into "Dollymine" for the day to celebrate country music star Dolly Parton's legacy.
A Dubbo business owner is fighting comic book giant DC Comics over allegations his promotional character "Fanman" is deceptively similar to Superman.
After receiving violent threats online, NSW Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty has stood by hefty fines for those who don't participate in a feral pig control plan.
Farmers, sporting shooters and gun sellers are all reacting angrily to the NSW government's buyback scheme, with some saying the compensation being offered is "like stealing".
WaterNSW in a "death spiral" and irrigators say steep price rises for water will not save it.
A splash of green has returned to New South Wales paddocks that were bare and barren just weeks ago, but the soil is still depleted and so are farmers' bank accounts.
Up to 100 millimetres of rain has been welcomed across drought-hit parts of western NSW, but some farmers expecting relief were left disappointed.
Water users in part of the Murray-Darling Basin are anxious that a proposal to protect their interests during droughts has been abandoned, as the dry conditions continue to worsen.
Photos show a kangaroo moments before being rescued from a dam in Central West NSW, after it became bogged in mud while searching for water in an increasingly barren landscape.
A leading researcher is calling for the platypus to be recognised as a threatened species in NSW, saying a lack of data is the only reason it has not been reclassified.
A fathers interest in poultry soon became a family obsession and now young Sophie Watson is a champion breeder at just 10 years of age.
More than 500,000 head of cattle have already been sold across New South Wales this year, with Scone seeing its biggest sale in 20 years.
The Australian Opal Centre in Lightning Ridge risks becoming a "white elephant" as construction indefinitely stalls and an auditor raises concerns about the organisation's viability.
Topic: Regional Development and Planning
Exports have been halted and shipping containers filled with Australian meat are stranded at sea as the Middle East conflict takes a toll on trade.
Brett Edward Sorby is sentenced to a maximum of 13 years' jail for his offending, which his victim described as "evil", saying she was ready to "give back the shame".
Jurors are discharged after failing to reach a verdict in the trial of Cecil Patrick Kennedy, who was accused of killing a toddler nearly two decades ago.
Families have told a sentencing hearing for a bus driver who caused a fatal crash in the NSW Hunter Valley that their lives have been "shattered".
Ten people died when the bus Brett Andrew Button was driving crashed on the way home from a wedding. This week he is expected to receive a jail term, but not before hearing from dozens of the victims' family and friends and those who survived the crash.
Topic: Road Accidents and Incidents
Only two people, both in their 20s, have completed a double crossing swim of the treacherous channel between New Zealand's North Island and South Island. Craig Clarke is training to do it at 60.
The Dharriwaa Elders Group say flood-struck Aboriginal communities are being forced to choose between dispossession or homelessness due to a lack of emergency accommodation.
Receding floodwaters are allowing some evacuated residents to fully comprehend the extent of damage to their homes and businesses.
A pregnant woman whose waters broke during a near-record flood has been rescued by the State Emergency Services and rushed to hospital just in time to give birth.
With around 1,000 Forbes residents already affected by flood evacuation warnings in NSW, the SES is urging people to be aware of the danger as a river peak looms. Crews also rescue a pregnant woman in labour overnight.
After four-and-a-half hours of deliberation, the jury has returned a guilty verdict in the Bowie murder trial in the New South Wales Supreme Court.