ABC NSW News

With spring heralding warmer weather, scientists say conditions are ripe for millions of locust eggs to hatch in parts of Australia's south-east.

Paul Hogan has received another letter from the Australian Tax Office, as his legal team attempt to resolve a long running dispute that has seen the actor banned from leaving Australia.

The New South Wales Opposition Leader Barry O'Farrell has joined the state's Premier in speaking in favour of a bill allowing same-sex couples the right to adopt.

The New South Wales Government says its updated Metropolitan Water Plan will drought-proof Sydney for the next 15 years.

A 60-year-old woman has been terrorised during a home invasion in Sydney's south-west last night.

New South Wales Christian Democrat MP Fred Nile says his staff accessed adult websites for research purposes.

Passengers caught in this week's exploding engine drama on an Australia-bound Qantas flight from the US have finally arrived back in Sydney.

The Embassy of Israel is financing an IT centre that will give Indigenous Australians a new way to share their traditional stories.

A prison escapee has led police on a 200 kilometre chase through central New South Wales.

Powderfinger signalled the beginning of the end when their national farewell tour opened in Newcastle last night.

MPs in NSW have been allowed a conscience vote on the issue of same-sex adoption. I hope they pass the law.

The far south coast-based head of the Motorcycle Council of New South Wales says the State Government has agreed to meet the group next week.

North Sydney lower grader Mitchell Stevens has been suspended for ten matches after being found guilty of biting following a lengthy hearing at the NSW Rugby League judiciary on Wednesday night.

A man and a woman have died in two separate car accidents along the Pacific Highway on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

After more than a decade of drought one of the Murray-Darling Basin's most important waterbird breeding sites is now in full flood.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) has confirmed the controversial suspensions for simulation will stand.

Paul McLeay resigns as NSW's ports and waterways minister after admitting to using a parliamentary computer to access gambling and adult websites.

Two men who visited Sydney's Olympic Park early last month have tested positive to Legionnaires' disease.

Biomechanics experts have been called in by the Central Coast Mariners in a bid to overturn an A-League ban that has sparked fears exciting import Patricio Perez may return home to Argentina.

Traffic is banked up for eight kilometres on the Pacific Highway after a fatal crash on the NSW mid-north coast this afternoon.