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Jyedon Pollard

As a town mourns a toddler’s death, questions are raised about dog restrictions

Experts are divided over the need for tighter restrictions to prevent dog attacks after the death of a toddler in the NSW Central West on Tuesday.

  • Millie Muroi and Sally Rawsthorne
The toddler was airlifted to Westmead Hospital but died on Tuesday afternoon.

‘The most sweet little boy’: Tributes pour for two-year-old killed in dog attack

The two dogs – believed to be a Rottweiler and a cattle dog – were seized by the local council. 

  • Sarah Keoghan
The two-year-old died at the Sydney Children’s Hospital at Westmead on Friday.

Toddler dies after dog attack at NSW motel

Police have set up a crime scene at the motel, and two dogs have been seized by the local council.

  • Megan Gorrey
Missing Mildura teenager Dom.

Missing Mildura teen’s phone detected 700km from home

Police used mobile phone location data to track 15-year-old Dom’s movements to Cowra after he went missing on September 14. But since Saturday, his mobile phone has been disconnected.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola
Wyangala Dam has been releasing up to 85,000 megalitres of water a day over the past few days.

Up to 800 properties at risk as floods move towards Forbes

Heavy rain, which has caused the Lachlan River to swell, is threatening towns in the NSW Central West, where residents are preparing for floods.

  • Josh Dye and Sarah McPhee
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Water being released down the spillway at Wyangala Dam in 2016.

'Expensive brain fart': Cost of dam project may triple, documents show

The cost of NSW's biggest dam project could blow out to $2.1 billion, or more than triple the original estimate, delivering what is likely to be the most expensive water in the Murray-Darling Basin.

  • Peter Hannam
Three teens are fighting for life after a horror smash in Cowra, which killed one passenger.

Teenager dies, three critically injured in Central West NSW smash

Two teenagers are fighting for life in hospital after their Holden sedan hit a tree, killing one of the passengers.

  • Josh Dye
As a party raged around her, Kristy Lee Williams lay dead on the floor

As a party raged around her, Kristy Lee Williams lay dead on the floor

Fifteen years on, her family need answers. 'Someone in this community knows what happened,' her mother says.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
Police locate body of man who tried to rescue nine-year-old

Police locate body of man who tried to rescue nine-year-old

Emergency services have resumed a search for a man who went missing on Friday evening while trying to rescue a nine-year-old boy from a dam in the state's central west.

  • Sarah Muller

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