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The number for Local Land Services for people affected by the NSW floods is 1800 814 647. ABC Rural RoundUp newsletter Stories from farms and country towns across Australia, delivered each Friday.

Insurers want governments to invest in a "flood defence fund" as residents on the NSW Mid North Coast count the costs of last week's inundation and skyrocketing premiums.

Dozens of Australian Defence Force personnel are being deployed to the New South Wales Mid North Coast to help with recovery efforts in flood-affected communities.

As is increasingly the case with every “natural” disaster, last month’s floods again exposed the unpreparedness and neglect by both the state and federal Labor governments.

A straying scorpion sent a scare through a suburban Sydney home after the little stinger had lost its way and wandered into ...

Taree was one of the worst-hit areas along the mid-north coast, copping five times its annual rainfall in a matter of days. The mid-coast town experienced record-breaking floods in what has been ...

As the recovery ramps up, the NSW State Emergency Service (SES) continues to operate in force, with 2,200 volunteers active across the state. More than 12,000 residents remain isolated, and supply ...

Pictures emerging from regions like Cooma and Canberra show cars buried, fields dusted in snow, and roads turned to ski runs.

After nearly 30 years of dual carriageway upgrades, the Pacific Highway between Hexham and the Queensland border acts as a major supply route for the entire north coast of NSW. More than 26,000 ...

Michael Kemp, state MP for Oxley — which covers four local government areas on the Mid North Coast — said it was tough seeing “people’s livelihoods on the side of the kerb”. Insurers ...