Wagga Wagga, Australia News

IT'S an appropriately balmy 25C when we fly into Kunming, tagged the City of Eternal Spring, on a late autumn afternoon.

The New South Wales Health Department has confirmed it has been flying a doctor from London to Wagga Wagga Base hospital because of a shortage of local specialists.

AN obstetrician from London is regularly being flown 19,000km to rural NSW in a desperate bid to deal with the critical shortage of doctors.

Cybergirl has discovered the joys of retail therapy. She has also discovered that if she wants to buy, she has to earn.

Christmas is a time to be with family. But for whatever reasons that's not always possible.

Swarms of locusts are sweeping across Australia as many farmers prepare to harvest their crops.

MORE migrants working on 457 visas have died since Labor won the federal election than in more than three years under the previous government, Immigration Department records show.

A WOMAN who says she was sexually abused by her Mormon stepfather 20 years ago wants to sue the church for failing to report the abuse to police.

Cool and rainy weather has stopped locusts from swarming in southern New South Wales, giving landholders more time to spray.

Locusts are beginning to swarm in southern New South Wales at the worst possible time for farmers, who still have a crop to harvest.

The Commander of Sydney's City Central Police, Mark Murdoch, has been promoted to the rank of Assistant Commissioner.

ANOTHER temporary migrant working on a 457 visa has died from injuries sustained on the job after attempts by the union to visit his worksite were repeatedly thwarted, the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union ...

A policewoman named in a Police Integrity Commission report into alleged brutality by Wagga Wagga police, in southern New South Wales, has complained to the PIC Inspector that she has been unfairly treated.

Safflower experts from all over the world are in Wagga Wagga, in southern New South Wales, for their international conference this week.

Kate Maree Hoolihan is set to breathe new life into a classic literary tomboy. LITTLE WOMEN: The Broadway Musical sounds as girly a night out as they come.

COURTING drama from her boyfriend's criminal charges, Kate Neilson was seeing more pink than red when she went to visit Wayne Carey's family at the weekend.

NSW will not face any electricity shortages until 2014 as a new report shows private investors have stepped forward with plans to build power stations to fill the looming gap.

Police are appealing for public help to catch two men who robbed a Catholic priest at knifepoint in Wagga Wagga in southern New South Wales.

SILHOUETTED against a brilliant blue sky, Andrew Polidano conjures up memories of E.T. as he powers along in his flying bike, the so-called flyke.

Farmers in southern and western NSW are facing a locust plague as the drought eases in parts of the state.