Elloise Farrow-Smith

The final resting place of more than 30,000 Australian soldiers from World War I and II is unknown. With DNA breakthroughs, more families are trying to find their ancestors' graves.

A man who only took up golf in his 80s has had his name added to the legends board of a country NSW club.

The families of more than 800 people killed on rural roads in the past year place their loved ones' shoes on display, as part of an action calling for improvements to road safety.

A surfer sitting on his board was attacked early this morning on the New South Wales north coast.

A retired nurse who lost money in a Byron Bay real estate fraud case vows to be in court when the agent is sentenced, after she was ordered to return to Australia from the United States.

A tribunal orders a landlord to pay a New South Wales tenant for causing stress, frustration and intimidation. As new rental laws come into effect, tenants' advocates say they don't go far enough.

Tensions are high in the NSW seat of Richmond, where nurses desperate for better pay say they are under pressure from their former allies for handing out Greens flyers.

The South East Forest Rescue group alleged the Forestry Corporation of NSW did not conduct a broad area habitat search for features of habitat for three species of glider in areas of native forest logging in NSW.

Police are investigating three fatal crashes across NSW in the past 24 hours, including the deaths of two men who were killed when their car left the road and crashed into a river.

Hair and make-up artists got 34 services done in three-and-a-half hours as part of a massive team effort to stop a cyclone from wiping out a couple's NSW wedding.

The ship from the 1890s, uncovered at a popular swimming beach at Ballina, is believed to be the remnants of paddle steamer The Comet.

Police say the car crashed through a safety barrier and boundary fence, before flying through the air and smashing onto the Port Macquarie home.

Many businesses trade off the Byron Bay brand, but when the product has nothing to do with the iconic location, angry locals are left with few options.

The Ballina Shire mayor says "enough is enough" after a spate of vehicle thefts in the region, but senior police officers and crime data paint a more complicated picture of youth crime.

The New South Wales government says the artwork infamous murderer Leonard Lawson did on the old walls of Grafton Gaol must go before the site becomes part of a new hospital because it could be upsetting for staff.

Engineers hope easy-to-erect, sustainable cardboard homes may provide the answer to crisis accommodation after floods and bushfires.

1970s pro-surfer Larry Blair has co-authored a book called The Outside detailing his crime-ridden childhood living in fear of The Toecutters and the murder of his bank-robbing father.

Two men have been arrested over multiple arson and ram-raid attacks targeting tobacconists in northern NSW.

The witness had been trying to photograph a getaway car outside a tobacconist in northern NSW. Police allege a Queensland criminal network is behind the raids.

Indigenous rights pioneer Joyce Clague persevered through early life on a mission and a childhood of racism and discrimination to become an international activist.

It is an iconic Australian logo, but a coalition of businesses want Aussie-made logos to be made clearer after a survey finds more than half of consumers are being misled into buying foreign-owned products.

Music festivals in NSW are being offered a financial assistance as the state government scrambles to save the industry from extinction, but the director of Bluesfest says it may not be enough.

Two people are dead and another is in hospital in a serious but stable condition after a car accident near Mungindi.

A coastal trough is expected to extend from Queensland to the NSW north coast on Tuesday evening and the SES is warning people to be prepared.

An 80-year-old northern NSW resident says she was in the wrong place at the wrong time when she was allegedly hit by a van.