Jeff Amatto has been able to recover from drug and alcohol abuse but the Wellington man says a gambling addiction was much harder to get away from.

The NSW accountant siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients via false ATO lodgements over three years.

Scientists mapping koala habitat in the NSW central west find it is larger than previously thought, but concerns remain over expansion plans at a nearby coal mine. 

Dugald Saunders has quit as NSW Nationals leader after two and a half years in the job, in a move that has shocked his colleagues.

Gurmesh Singh's election as the new leader of the NSW Nationals is being hailed as great news for Indian Sikh communities across the state.

A man has been sentenced to a one year intensive corrections order, to be served in the community, after attempting to drive through floodwater in the NSW central west, resulting in the death of a five-year-old. 

The internationally recognised Macquarie Marshes, a key breeding site for waterbirds, has been home to graziers for generations.  With irrigators and regional towns also reliant on the river that feeds the marshlands, is enough water getting through to the fragile landscape?