The Latest Breaking News from NPWS

Two experienced hikers rescued after failing to return from the Blue Mountains say they were not lost but unable to negotiate overgrown walking tracks.

More than 20 people have drowned off a three-kilometre stretch of coastline between Newcastle and the Central Coast in NSW since 2008. As the coastal drowning death toll reaches a statewide record this summer, communities are trying to come up with solutions.

"When the kangaroos hit the tent, it flexed and pushed them back up... that was the only thing that saved those girls."

It is not known how the eagle ingested this substance

There's no real sense of arrival, limited signage to the summit and a complete lack of public toilets at the base, according to Tomaree Headland Heritage Group (THHG) president Peter Clough.

National parks staff emailed residents with news, citing lack of progress on the site, before contractors say they were told

"We'll burn around 10 hectares adjacent to properties in Seahampton on Sunday."

NSW Farmers and the Greens have formed an unlikely alliance, calling for the immediate resumption of the aerial culling of pests, which pose a biosecurity risk.

National Parks and Wildlife Service says threat ‘should be condemned by all Australians’