The NSW government today spruiked that Casino's CBD will host one of Australia's great transport events after Casino Truck Show secured funding under the state government's 2026/27 Regional Event Fund.

Sixteen years old, lining up to get into a music festival, separated from friends, taken into a tent and forced to strip.

Last week at about 2.30 in the afternoon I was meeting someone at a pub when two sketchy-looking dudes came into the front bar...

The NSW Greens are leading a push to end the use of drug detection dogs without a warrant on public transport, at festivals, bars and in Kings Cross in Sydney.

Police are targeting drug driving in a statewide blitz amid claims that motorists are being wrongly targeted because of “imprecise legislation”. They are also continuing to use sniffer dogs in Nimbin and other centres despite studies showing the success rate of detecting drugs is very low.

The never-ending war against inanimate objects – in this case drugs – was highlighted recently with police dog operations targeting children as they entered both Murwillumbah and Mullumbimby high schools.

Parents in Murwillumbah are outraged after another police sniffer-dog operation targeted school students on their way to school this morning.

The use of police sniffer dogs to target high school students in Byron and Tweed shires has prompted an angry response from local politicians and parents.

Police are this morning conducting sniffer dog operations in Mullumbimby and are expected in Byron Bay this afternoon.