Simon Wallace

Huge piles of tumbleweeds are surrounding houses, frustrating farmers and heightening fire risk in rural areas. But academics say very little can be done to wipe them out.

Bob Holder, also known as "the Cootamundra Cat", won his first event in 1945 when he was 14. Now 92, he rides in an arena that was named in his honour.

Chemical run-off from the Forest Hill RAAF base has been found just 650 metres from Wagga Wagga's water supply, despite recent studies by Defence claiming it would take at least 50 years to reach the bores.

Researchers say an asteroid impact crater up to 520 kilometres in diameter could lie under a the town of Deniliquin.

A critic says the commercialisation of the drug is potentially dangerous and culturally insensitive, but others say the "great alternative to alcohol" has never been hard to source in the west.

Young netballers from Junee in New South Wales are collecting sports uniforms for Fiji players after an eye-opening overseas carnival.

A cross between tennis, badminton and table tennis, pickleball emerged out of the US in the 1960s and continues to go from strength to strength in Australia.

More than one million people in Australia volunteer in sports as an official and almost 15 per cent are teenagers, according to the Australian Sports Commission.

"I didn't want to stay in a tent, so I cancelled," says one mum, who pulled the plug on a trip to Wagga Wagga this month, as large events stretch short stay options in regional centres.

A decade after infamous fugitives Gino and Mark Stocco terrorised southern NSW and shot at Senior Constable Matthew Shaw, the memory of that day is seared in his mind.

A teenager whose life was changed when he took up wheelchair basketball says he loves the physical and team-building aspects of the sport.

Emu feathers were synonymous with the Australian armed forces effort during WW1 but they were first placed on a slouch hat in 1891, a fact some enthusiastic volunteers are keen to teach.

Australia's newest soldiers have marched out of Wagga Wagga's Kapooka training base under the proud gaze of the Governor-General.

People spilled into the streets in southern NSW towns as tremors from the Mansfield earthquake rippled through the region.

Worth in excess of $80,000, this classic Holden Torana is still missing after being stolen from Leeton in April. It was last seen in Liverpool.

Three athletes from the Riverina will compete in the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Ashley van Rijswijk from Tumut will start by swimming in the 100 meters Breaststroke SB14 event on Sunday.

From next year, all health students studying at Australia's largest regional university will have to be fully vaccinated against COVID to be allocated a training placement. 

A 10-hour round trip from a Hockey Australia training centre didn't stop Dylan Martin from becoming an Olympic medallist.

Dorothy Hoy — who watched last night's historic performance from her home in regional NSW  — says that, after eight Olympics, she still gets excited watching her son compete at the highest level.

Riverina families will be on the edge of their seats over the next two weeks as these five local loved ones compete for Olympic gold in Tokyo.

The campaign continues for Indigenous voices to be heard and for an increased role for First Nations people in the management of water operations in the Murray-Darling Basin.

NSW Labor has moved to force the government to unseal hotly anticipated council demerger reports that have been under wraps since they were tabled in February.

Ungarie 'got away with it this time' as floodwaters peak at low level — but a truck driver who bypassed road closure signs was not so lucky.

Regional Australians will receive their vaccinations at the same time as metro counterparts when the expected nationwide rollout begins next month, according to the Rural Doctors Association.

Qantas says uncertainty around COVID-19 in Sydney and border restrictions will delay the start date of three new routes in regional NSW.