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The housing change that has these doctors furious

FIFO doctors raised concerns ranging from the distance between the hospital and accommodation to a lack of comfortable furniture and crockery.

  • Angus Thomson

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The weekend that landed Latrell in trouble

It was meant to be a weekend of good deeds by the South Sydney star. It made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Daniel Billings is now in custody.

The cruel twist of fate that let an accused killer walk free

Daniel Billings was charged with stalking, rape and animal cruelty. Police said he’d threatened his former partner. There was no magistrate, so a registrar gave him bail.

  • Jordan Baker, Perry Duffin and Jonathan Drennan
The male driver, believed to be in his 30s, died at the crash site.

Bus driver hailed for saving lives in fatal crash near Dubbo

A man is dead and multiple people injured after a car that police had been pursuing moments earlier collided with a bus on a highway in Central West NSW.

  • Megan Gorrey and Angus Thomson
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Last weekend, a five-year-old broke into a house to steal a car

A youth crime crisis in some areas of regional Australia is fuelling long-standing tension between Indigenous residents, the wider community and police.

  • Jordan Baker
Mieka Pokarier died while on her way to see Taylor Swift’s concert.

Swiftie killed on ‘road trip of a lifetime’ to Melbourne Eras show

A teenager has died and her 10-year-old sister has been critically injured in a crash in NSW as they were driving from the Gold Coast.

  • Alex Crowe
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An artist’s impression of No.1 Church Street in Dubbo, a 15-storey apartment building that is under construction.

High-rise in country NSW points to new way of bush living

Big houses among the gum trees dominate the streetscape in regional towns and villages. But that’s about to change.

  • Catherine Naylor
The Toll ambulance rescue helicopters carry a paramedic and doctor conducting rescues and hospital transfers of patients around NSW and the ACT.

One-year-old boy dies after being hit by ute at holiday park near Dubbo

A one-year-old boy has died in hospital after he was struck by a ute on the shores of Lake Burrendong on Saturday morning.

  • Catherine Naylor
A quiet Macquarie Street in the centre of Dubbo, a regional centre which has seen its sales and rental market struggle to cope with the influx of newcomers.

Calls to build more one-bedroom apartments ... in Dubbo?

After an unexpected influx of tree-changers, regional areas are trying to accommodate both locals and new residents, and tame runaway property price growth.

  • Tawar Razaghi
Jayleigh Murray died after Dubbo Base Hospital staff did not check her X-ray results.

How unchecked results led to three missed cancer cases and a baby’s death

A scandal over unchecked test results at a NSW hospital has deepened amid revelations three cancer diagnoses were missed.

  • Carrie Fellner

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