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A English class watched on in awe as a supercell hailstorm pelted the classroom in Sawtell New South Wales, covering Maya Farmers school oval in what looked like snow.

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

Majestic Cinemas says a slump in film releases has forced it to enter voluntary administration this week despite record-grossing films last year. 

The new year has got off to a dramatic start in northern New South Wales with heavy rain causing waterways across the Tweed to break their banks overnight.

It is a wet end to the year on the NSW Coffs Coast, with floodwater inundating car parks and apartment buildings, and a New Year's Eve event being cancelled.

People with myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, say society has long underestimated and downplayed their struggles. They share what their lives are really like. 

For the first time in more than 20 years, glossy black cockatoo nests are discovered on the NSW Mid North Coast, in an area ravaged during the Black Summer bushfires.

As the Matildas are celebrated for their success at the FIFA Women's World Cup, we turn the spotlight on the grassroots heroes — the beating heartbeat of the game.

These friends are both waiting for a lifesaving heart transplant. Neither knows what the future will bring, but both are certain their friendship is forever. 

The destruction wreaked by the savage weather event is still evident in the NSW city, where frustrated locals are still waiting for repairs and insurance payouts.

It's taken two years, but Sydney Swans have won their AFLW licence. Now regional players are competing for their chance at the big time.

Despite breaking his neck and becoming a complete quadriplegic, Barney Miller has taken on the biggest surf of his life.

A huge hailstorm that battered Coffs Harbour and stunned residents and emergency workers on Wednesday has left a damage bill in the hundreds of millions, says a local MP.

There's been a string of teenage stabbing attacks in recent weeks, but what do the statistics reveal about youth knife crime?

Police are investigating after a fight broke out among a large group of people on Murrays Beach in Sawtell on Sunday night.

Noel Crocker, Elgwen Herdegen and Henry "Corky" Caldwell are among an estimated 6,000 Australians aged over 100 years old nationwide.

As court proceeding begin in New Zealand over the White Island volcano disaster, the mother of one victim says the island should remain a memorial with visitors allowed no closer than 1 kilometre.

Byron Bay's beaches are at risk of further erosion as wild weather creates hazardous tides and damaging conditions along the state's north coast.

The NSW Bureau of Meteorology issues a severe weather warning for the northern NSW, with heavy rain along the coast, expected to ease later today, before worsening conditions tomorrow.

A former shark spotter and surfer says helicopter surveillance may have prevented two fatal NSW shark attacks this year.

David Joseph Perrett, 82, dies on bail, awaiting trial over 139 allegations of child sexual assault spanning four decades.

The over-60s population of Coffs Harbour will grow by two-thirds in the next 20 years, but the rise in millennials will be minimal. So how will the local council plan for such vast change?

A former Catholic priest accused of assaulting 40 victims across eight NSW parishes from the 1960s to the mid-1990s has pleaded not guilty to the 139 charges.

A 3.5-metre leopard seal has come ashore in northern NSW as authorities warn eager onlookers to keep their distance from the potentially deadly marine mammal.

As the head of a large legal firm's abuse department acting for about 1,000 survivors, Lisa Flynn knows what it's like to work on a challenging case.