All the updated news related to New South Wales

All the news related to New South Wales updated in real time

Found 39

forNew South Wales

Order by:

GB’s Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling crowned junior time trial world champions

Cycling

Zoe Backstedt wins junior women’s time trial at Road World Championships

Great Britain’s Zoe Backstedt and Joshua Tarling stormed to victories in the junior women’s and men’s time trials at the UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. The 17-year-old Backstedt clocked 18 minutes 26.78 seconds over the 14....

20 Sept 2022 at 11:34

World

Australia to declare east coast floods a national emergency

Australia’s prime minister has said he will declare a national emergency following floods across large swathes of the east coast that have claimed 22 lives. Scott Morrison made the announcement during a visit to flood-devastated Lismore in ...

09 Mar 2022 at 08:55

World

500,000 people on flood alert as rain lashes Sydney

Around 500,000 people in Sydney and its surrounds had by Thursday been told to evacuate or prepare to flee floodwater as torrential rain lashed an extraordinarily long stretch of Australia’s east coast. Rivers were rising in the country’s ...

03 Mar 2022 at 08:55

British-born dog breeder dies after getting caught in Australian floods

A UK-born dog breeder has died after being caught in floodwater on the outskirts of Sydney. The body of a 68-year-old man was found in his van on Friday morning at Cobbity some 43 miles south-west of Sydney’s central business district, ...

09 Apr 2022 at 06:55

UK mother remains in critical condition after holiday landslide in Australia

A British mother remains in a critical condition in an intensive care unit after her family was caught in a deadly landslide while holidaying in Australia. A 14-year-old boy has undergone surgery and is in a stable condition, while a ...

06 Apr 2022 at 07:25

British father killed in landslide while hiking in Australia named

A British lawyer killed along with his nine-year-old son in a landslide while on holiday in Australia has been named as Mehraab Nazir. Mr Nazir, 49, had been on a hike with his family in the Wentworth Pass area of the Blue Mountains,...

06 Apr 2022 at 13:55

Convicted child sex offender and actor Robert Hughes to be deported to UK

Actor and convicted child sex offender Robert Hughes will be deported from Australia to the UK following his release from a correctional facility. Hughes, 73, was imprisoned in 2014 after being found guilty of 10 sexual and ...

14 Jun 2022 at 03:04

World

First wild koalas caught and vaccinated against chlamydia

Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the marsupials against a widespread disease that causes ...

09 May 2023 at 08:47

World

Millions of rotting fish to be removed from Outback river

Contractors are being hired to remove millions of rotting fish from a river in the Australian Outback after an unprecedented die-off following floods and hot weather, police said on Monday. The fish started dying in the ...

20 Mar 2023 at 13:05

World

Millions of dead fish wash up in Australian river after flooding and heatwave

Millions of fish have washed up dead in south-eastern Australia in a die-off that authorities and scientists say is caused by floods and hot weather. The Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales said the ...

19 Mar 2023 at 09:08

World

‘No chance of survivors’ after Australian army helicopter crashed off coast

The Australian army helicopter that crashed on Friday during a multinational exercise hit the water with a “catastrophic impact” and there is no chance its four crew members survived, officials have said. ...

31 Jul 2023 at 08:12

Surgeon probing Australian woman’s mystery symptoms finds live worm in her brain

World

Surgeon probing Australian woman’s mystery symptoms plucks worm from her brain

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital said she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a ...

29 Aug 2023 at 09:19

Years
2026

Iconic Media is Ireland's largest independently owned regional newspaper and media group, with an unrivalled audience in print, online and mobile. We have 19 regional newspapers and 21 digital sites.

Iconic Digital Titles

Iconic Print Titles

Letterkenny Live

This publication supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and Office of the Press Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice of the Press Council. You can obtain a copy of the Code, or contact the Council, at www.presscouncil.ie, Lo-call 1800 208 080 or email: info@presscouncil.ie.