Fewer than half of Northern NSW emergency patients needing admission or transfer met a six-hour hospital access target in 2025–26, according to a health district review released yesterday.

A long weekend is to be included in the calendar as part of this and next year’s Anzac Day commemorations in NSW.

The NSW Productivity and Equality Commission is to review market impacts of prohibiting strata managing agents from accepting commissions or what is described as ‘other conflicted payments’.

After Council’s compliance team threatened to demolish the homes of a small Main Arm multiple occupancy (MO) community, councillors voted unanimously last Thursday to review their enforcement policy in the coming months.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal is inviting people and businesses involved in the NSW biodiversity credits market to provide feedback on issues related to competition, fairness and efficiency in the market.

The closing date for submissions to a statutory review into the NSW Reconstruction Authority Act 2022 has been extended until Monday, 17 June.

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal yesterday quashed the convictions of Kathleen Folbigg, who was convicted for the deaths of her four children in 2003.

Member for Ballina Tamara Smith MP is today calling on the NSW Premier and the Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Harris to undertake an urgent and independent review of the NSW government’s decision not to allow the residents of Cabbage Tree Island to return to live on the island after the 2022 floods.

The issue of gambling advertising has resurfaced after federal opposition leader Peter Dutton announced that the Coalition government will move to ban sports betting advertising during the broadcasting of games and that would include air time an hour on either side of a sporting game.

Herewith is a brief summary of 2022, as seen through the Echo lens. Given the constrained space, only a few topics can make it in.