The Latest Breaking News from Darling

‘As we go into another hot, dry spell, it is more critical than ever that we deliver fully on the Murray Darling Basin Plan’, Tanya Plibersek said

Tanya Plibersek warns Victoria as state holds out on signing deal while move to lift embargo on federal water purchases likely to enrage farmers

Low levels of dissolved oxygen in the water caused up to 20 million fish to die at Menindee last week, authorities said.

Millions of dead fish float on the surface of the river. Native bony herring and introduced young carp, as well as a few mature Murray cod and golden perch. History is repeating on the Darling River at Menindee. This new fish kill is even worse than the enormous 2018–2019 fish…

Government agencies are mobilising at Menindee in outback NSW to co-ordinate the response to enormous clusters of dead fish in the Darling-Baaka River.

Politicians are calling for the urgent removal of the millions of dead fish clogging the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River near Menindee.

The great flood of late 2022 changed the ecology of the basin’s rivers, and not in a good way

After back-to-back floods, water in the Darling River and its tributaries reaches levels not seen since the 1970s.

Residents in far western NSW face an uncertain couple of days as the swollen Darling River continues to rise and threatens more properties and homes.