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Port Hacking High School year 7 students Willow Middleton and Luca Barnsley are in their own extension class this year.

Every public student granted access to ‘gifted’ education programs

Schools are now offering a range of education options, ranging from enrichment streams, extension classes and STEM programs.

  • Christopher Harris

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Wagga Beach.

The inland beach where bunyips and water dogs dwell

Indigenous storytelling instils in children that this river must be treated with respect and is a dangerous place to visit alone.

  • Amy Peden
Trainer Bjorn Baker.

Talented filly heads to Wagga to try and break her maiden

Trainer Bjorn Baker has produced Pyrolysis at the races four times, and she’s been placed in each of them.

  • John Schell
A poster with the words “End Domestic Violence” was anonymously plastered on top of the sign in March.

Michael Slater has an oval in honour of him. It’s yet to be renamed

For more than a year, Wagga Wagga council has been wrestling over a decision to rename the controversial oval despite vandalism attempts and community backlash.

  • Cindy Yin
Former NSW Liberal MP Daryl Maguire has been sentenced to prison after giving misleading evidence to the corruption watchdog.

Fallen MP Daryl Maguire given bail after being jailed for lying to ICAC

The former member for Wagga Wagga was on Wednesday taken into a subterranean cell, but was swiftly released pending an appeal.

  • Perry Duffin
Daryl Maguire faces a maximum penalty of two years’ imprisonment.

Daryl Maguire found guilty of misleading corruption watchdog

The former Liberal MP is facing up to two years in jail after being found guilty of giving misleading evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

  • Amber Schultz
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Top jockey Chad Schofield.

‘I will destroy you in court’: Top jockey’s night of drunken, racial abuse of police

Chad Schofield was meant to be in Wagga for a lucrative horse racing carnival, but instead ended up in custody after a wild confrontation with police.

  • Adam Pengilly
Inland Rail

Freight trains up to 3.6km long incite fears in regional towns

The double-stacked trains will travel through some centres up to 20 times a day under plans for a 1700-kilometre freight line between Brisbane and Melbourne.

  • Catherine Naylor
A number of suburbs in Wagga Wagga recorded some of the steepest house price growth in Australia last year.

The unlikely NSW suburb where house prices rose most last year

A new tree-change hotspot hundreds of kilometres from Sydney has recorded the strongest house price growth in the country, and prices in neighbouring suburbs are soaring too.

  • Kate Burke
Emergency Services Minister Steph Cooke.

Large hail and severe thunderstorm warning for flood-stricken towns

Severe thunderstorms and dangerous flash flooding are forecast to hit inland areas of central and south-east NSW on Sunday and Monday.

  • Megan Gorrey and Millie Muroi