The Latest Breaking News from Bourke

Inexperienced police are being sent to rural and regional areas while governments struggle to address the root causes of crime, an inquiry has been told.

The report from parliament’s inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children is due this week – for one Bourke family, it’s another step on a long road for police accountability

A man will face a sentence hearing in March after pleading guilty to the domestic-violence related murder of a woman in Bourke.

Fewer backpackers will mean higher labour costs for farmers. Are you ready to pay more for food?

Many people are unaware of the history of the Afghan cameleers in Australia and their early contribution to society.

While summer flooding has caused much heartache, for a group of paddlers, it's meant the realisation of a 10-year dream: to paddle more than 200 kilometres down the flooded Darling River.

There is an urgent call for blood donations this Easter long weekend after supplies have dropped to record low levels. There is currently only enough supplies of emergency blood type O negative to last one and a half days. For the first time, Newcastle Blood Donor Centre will open its…

A new era of cooperation between the New South Wales Department of Education and rural parents is set to begin, according to the head of the newly-formed Regional, Rural and Remote Education Policy Unit.

Nurses say they have been abused, threatened and assaulted in the town of Bourke. They are afraid the threat of violence is compromising the care of patients at the local hospital.