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The NSW Coroner is investigating the circumstances surrounding the 2022 death of jockey Marina Morel.

Injured horse returned to work six months early before jockey’s fatal fall

Marina Morel was fatally crushed underneath a racehorse in country NSW. An inquest will examine whether the animal’s prior injury contributed to its fall.

  • Amber Schultz

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NSW Police found two bodies in a shipping container in Gulgong.

Two bodies discovered in shipping container in Central West

Police are investigating after two bodies were found in a shipping container in a small town in the state’s Central West on Saturday.

  • Harriet Alexander
Michael Durrant with a fossil from the spine of a spinosaurus, which would have featured in the Gulgong museum.

Fossil fight: How a rural NSW town’s stoush over a museum got ‘personal’

The town of Gulgong in rural NSW has seen its plans for a dinosaur museum go up in smoke after a fierce online backlash.

  • Catherine Naylor
Michelle Bright was murdered by Craig Rumsby in 1999.

‘Her dreams were stolen’: Slain schoolgirl’s family confront ‘monster’

Michelle Bright’s mother and brothers sobbed as they told the court of their “unending grief” in the decades since the 17-year-old was murdered by Craig Rumsby.

  • Sarah McPhee
Column 8 granny dinkus

Copping one in the Googles

And touting tripe.

Dr Matthew McCurry from the Australian Museum with one of the fossils found at McGraths Flat.

Gulgong farmer’s fantastic fossil find uncovers unknown ancient species

What did ancient fish eat? How many hairs on the leg of a 15 million-year-old spider? What colour was a feather? A new fossil site can answer these questions.

  • Julie Power
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Hayley Olivares told the inquiry a cook had to look after the other patients while her mother bled to death in Gulgong.

Cook ‘cared for patients’ as woman died in NSW hospital with no doctors, inquiry hears

An inquiry has heard extraordinary evidence that kitchen staff are stepping in to care for patients due to critical staffing shortages at NSW hospitals.

  • Carrie Fellner
Health Minister Brad Hazzard.

Health Minister demands action over 'shocking' death in hospital

Brad Hazzard says 'everything possible must be done' to get a doctor into a hospital where a woman bled to death last month.

  • Carrie Fellner
Dawn Trevitt, 66, died last month while being treated by teleconference in a NSW emergency department.

'We couldn't believe it': Woman bleeds to death in NSW hospital with no doctors on site

Patients have been warned to have their heart attacks "between nine and five" as emergency departments move to treat patients via videolink outside business hours.

  • Carrie Fellner
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Haldi

It's a long way from Goa to Gulgong, but the dishes on offer at Haldi (it's the Indian word for ...