Forests on the North Coast are earmarked for a national park to protect “the best patch of koala habitat in the world”,but the area is still being logged in epic proportions.
NSW households can claim up to $2600 towards the cost of installing a battery to store solar energy and as much as $400 to connect to a virtual power plant.
Broken Hill has endured 10 days of rolling power outages after a storm cut the outback city off from the electricity network.
NSW landowners cleared land equivalent to almost twice the size of the Australian Capital Territory over the five years to 2023.
Forcing cafes to accept reusable cups,banning the release of helium balloons and phasing out plastic lollipop sticks are among ideas the government is considering.
The local government nomination debacle has possibly derailed what could have been the next generation of NSW parliamentarians for at least four years.
Just months before it announced the deal to extend the life of Eraring,the NSW government asked the electricity grid operator to undertake more conservative modelling.
The biggest ecological survey to date for Australia’s oldest national park and adjoining areas found previously unseen mammal species.
Labor minister Patrick Gorman’s zinger about French submarines had Australian diplomats in Paris holding their breath.
The Minns government will tighten land-clearing laws loosened by the Coalition in 2016 and strengthen the contentious biodiversity offsets scheme.
The beach communities at Little Garie,Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027,and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.