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This Kyogle home sold for just $347.

This NSW house sold for $347. It came with a catch

Flood-affected homes bought back by the state government are going up for auction – and bidding starts at just $1.

  • Jessica McSweeney

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Lismore pranksters were exhausting

Bus drivers had to keep their eyes peeled.

Michelle Bennett’s Croki home was inundated when the Manning River burst its banks.

It’s not a matter of if, but when Taree floods again. Locals are asking themselves if they can survive it

As clean-up from the record disaster continues, many are wondering what the future of their town looks like.

  • Riley Walter
Lismore locals are buying in the area as it recovers floods in 2022.

‘Highly desirable’: NSW tree-change towns where house prices boomed

House prices across regional NSW have recorded the strongest gains in a year, and several towns rose by double digits.

  • Alice Uribe
People squatting in homes on Pine St, Lismore, were allegedly harassed by people doing burnouts and throwing fireworks on Saturday night.

Minns accused of ‘fuelling vigilantes’ after Lismore squatters allegedly targeted

Police are investigating after reports a group of people allegedly “performed burnouts, harassed residents and damaged vehicles” on a street in Lismore where Premier Chris Minns promised to evict squatters.

  • Michael McGowan
Harry Freeman says Lismore is “dying” as residents relocate from the city’s most flood-prone areas.

Doug and Alyse spent three years fighting their insurance company. Then the floods came again

“What happens if we keep getting smashed?” Many Lismore residents are considering their future after a near-repeat of flooding three years ago.

  • Riley Walter
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Tyson says he and his mother will return to living in their car if they are evicted from the Pine Street property they are living in.

On a flood-ravaged Lismore street, ‘squatters’ take on premier

With nowhere to go, these people turned a street of condemned government-owned homes into a community. Now Chris Minns has vowed to demolish the buildings.

  • Riley Walter
Liz McLeod, care co-ordinator at the Friends of the Koala rehabilitation centre, with Troppo, a 10-month-old joey found at the base of a tree.

Alfred knocked koalas out of trees and swept a kangaroo into a drain

Wildlife rescue groups have reported an influx of injured native fauna and are planning a search-and-rescue mission for koalas across forests in northern NSW.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
NSW Premier Chris Minns, Minister for Emergency Services Jihad Dib and Lismore MP Janelle Saffin joined nervous Lismore residents to watch the river rise at the Browns Creek pumping station earlier today.

She swam to save lives in 2022. History is repeating itself for this NSW MP

Lismore MP Janelle Saffin helped save a man as floods ravaged Lismore in 2022, but it’s her approach to politics that two premiers rave about.

  • Max Maddison
Lismore could be hit by major flooding again as a result of the tropical low.

Northern NSW towns brace for flooding as Lismore warning downgraded

Ex-tropical cyclone Alfred continues to leave its mark after the crossing the coast of South East Queensland, with more heavy rain forecast on Sunday.

  • Chris Barrett

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