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Natural disasters have punctuated most years of their high school life, but this year's Heywire winners only have tales of resilience to share. 

Country road deaths have risen 18 per cent across NSW in the year since findings from a parliamentary inquiry into regional road safety were handed down, with the government yet to respond.

Female motorcyclists are outnumbered by their male counterparts in New South Wales, but the gap is becoming smaller each year, which some have credited to riding groups and social media.

Four years after the fires, an art exhibition titled Burning Generation gives rural NSW teens a space to process painful memories about the disaster and voice their concerns about climate change.

Regional communities want to know whether powerlines connecting renewables to the grid to power the state's transition can go underground — but the answer may not be so simple.

See Me Hear Me Theatre's The Planet Man is making plays accessible for all afficionados.

A top energy expert says Australia is adding renewable energy at less than half the pace required to replace retiring coal-fired power generation and meet its 2030 climate targets.

After witnessing the impacts of climate change, urban encroachment, and tree diebacks, Sharon Field is drawing a plant species a day on paper scrolls, which have been on display as far afield as New York.

A southern NSW family has built their own bridge over a local creek using donated items, after flash flooding swept away the only passage on and off the property where they live.

Terrifying flash floods have ripped out trees, smashed cars into bridges and washed away furniture in the NSW Riverina and Southern Tablelands — leaving businesses and residents to clean up the mess.

Adelong's main street floods

Heavy rain and strong winds cause dangerous flash flooding and rapid river rises in parts of central and southern NSW.

Landowners affected by the HumeLink transmission network across NSW are frustrated to learn the project will stay above ground.

Massive crowds descend on Sydney's CBD and other parts of NSW as teachers from Catholic and public schools unite to demand better pay and conditions, as Education Minister Sarah Mitchell claims their deal is the best in the country.

The high voltage transmission lines will connect Australia to an upgraded Snowy Hydro, but landowners say the fire risk is being ignored and want them underground.

Turquoise parrots were fighting back from the brink of extinction when the Black Summer bushfires wiped out much of their nesting habitat. Small populations in the Snowy Mountains survived by populating unburnt sections of bushland and now the local community is doing everything it can to help them.

Yaven Champagne Romance was tipped to be a favourite at the performance horse auction in Tamworth and she did not disappoint.

Harrowing and heartwarming photographs from the 2019-20 Upper Murray Black Summer fires are on display in a bushfire recovery photographic exhibition.

Thousands of Telstra customers are offline after two separate faults took out more than 40 mobile sites overnight. Mice are suspected to be behind the outage at one of the exchanges.

More than 400 farms in the Snowy Valleys still need help to fix fences destroyed in the Black Summer bushfires.

Magda Szubanski's a much-loved comedian. He's a teenager who went viral when he cracked an egg on a senator's head. Together, these unlikely buddies have a plan to help people like "Macca".

A dawn service is held to memorialise the loss of the Sugar Pine Walk in Bago State Forest, with burnt sugar pine repurposed into handcrafted pieces.

NBN Co has no immediate plans to extend fibre broadband outside its current footprint, and new state and council investments are making getting online in the bush even more complicated. Enter, the Regional Tech Hub.

A Riverina farmer who deliberately stockpiled guns on his rural property because he believed in "external threats" will spend more than two-and-a-half years in jail.

After more than 70 years, the new owner of the Adelong gold mine is confident it will make a profit this time.