With International Overdose Awareness Day approaching on 31 August, NSW now has the evidence, the tools and record overdose deaths but lacks the will on permanent, community based pill testing.

The NSW Labor government has announced the launch of a dedicated unit for the prosecution of industrial manslaughter.

The Transport Workers' Union says it will write to gig platforms including Uber and Hungry Panda calling for answers on whether several horrific fatalities and violent assaults of gig workers have been properly reported to regulators like SafeWork.

Tweed Byron police say they arrested 26 people in the week to last Friday, including sixteen for road and/or traffic offences.

A group of around 150 Northern Rivers residents travelled over the state border on Sunday to join Brisbane’s march in support of journalists killed in Palestine.

Three people are dead as a result of three separate crashes on the Northern Rivers over the weekend.

New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Life shows life expectancy in Australia has decreased slightly for the second year in a row.

Local government areas on the Northern Rivers account for eight of the top ten areas with the state’s highest rates of melanoma.

The Bob Brown Foundation says that it is time for the RSPCA to act, with shocking numbers of farmed salmon dying in Macquarie Harbour and around Tasmania.

Coastal drowning deaths and drownings across NSW are up for the 2023-24 year, as detailed in the latest National Drowning Report.