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LONG-COVID: Surveys of COVID-19 patients around the world indicate a stronger link between some genetic precursors and long-COVID development. Picture: FILE

Preliminary surveys suggest there are a few indicators of whether you might develop long-COVID.

Who's most likely to end up getting long-COVID symptoms?

Gazette photographer Simon Bennett was out-and-about in the Hawkesbury assessing the current lay of the land on Friday, March 4.

PICTURES | Shots from around the Hawkesbury from Friday, March 4.

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Kumanjayi Walker, 19, died after Constable Zachary Rolfe shot him three times. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO)

NT inquest revised amid community tensions

Ravi (pictured) escaped his enclosure in Adelaide Zoo on Friday, August 12, 2022. Photo: Adelaide Zoo.

The seven-year-old panda, named Ravi, escaped from its enclosure in Adelaide Zoo, in the city's CBD, on Friday, August 12.

Escaped Red Panda is caught after two days on the run and ready to mate

FRIENDS: The aim is for Nina (right) to ride the final kilometre to complete the journey with Karen. Picture: Facebook.

An epic journey for health and friendship is about to hit the road.

Two women with the 'wheelpower' to tackle cancer

A man has been charged over a shooting incident at Canberra airport at the weekend. (Mick Tsikas/AAP PHOTOS)

Alleged Canberra airport shooter detained

Walt Secord is standing aside from the shadow ministry. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

NSW Labor MP steps down amid allegations

The Blue Mountains Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Day service returned to Springwood on Sunday, August 14.

PICTURES: Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Day Service returns to Springwood

Winner: Zoe Leach with Zonta club member Alison McLaren (left), Linda Adair, coordinator of the Young Women in Public Affairs Award and Gina Vizza from Blue Mountains Womens Health and Resource Centre.

Year 10 Winmalee High student Zoe Leach has been recognised as the Zonta Blue Mountains Young Woman in Public Affairs Award recipient for 2022.

Zonta: Young woman of achievement

Broadcaster and musician James Valentine will MC the Live at the Village music festival in Springwood on August 27.

Come alive with music in the village

Sight line issues on the northern side of Bullaburra station: Residents Gary Hyland and Adam and Bernadette Bielderman with daughter Elaria and their newborn Edward, with Crs Romola Hollywood and Claire West.

Concerns over pedestrian access and safety around train stations continues to dominate concerns of many Blue Mountains residents, according to Ward 2 Cr Romola Hollywood.

'Access on that side is in the Dark Ages': Safety fears at Bullaburra station

Winmalee High School Year 10 students Simona Bustamante-Lopez, Bella Higginbotham, Emma McHardy, Hayley Scanlon and Georgia Campbell at the Planet Youth Blue Mountains community workshop.

Locals work closely with Iceland's Planet Youth.

Locals working with Iceland's Planet Youth

Blue Mountains canine, Kobe, has released his first cookbook.

Kobe the Pyr, a 52kg Pyrenean Mountain Dog with a prodigious appetite, has just released his first canine cookbook.

Australia's furriest author releases new book to help fight food waste

Voices raised as choir festival returns to Blackheath.

Voices raised as choir festival returns to Blackheath

Local heritage fund: Helping to preserve heritage buildings in the Blue Mountains.

Blue Mountains heritage saved through council grants

A 53-year-old Katoomba man was attacked by two strangers about 11pm on Wednesday July 27 after withdrawing money from an ATM on Katoomba Street.

Katoomba man, 53, robbed after using ATM

New owner Adrian Guest, former owners Dale Gregory, Kerrie Ray and new licensee Jake Toivonen outside the Ivanhoe hotel in Blackheath.

New owners end a long era with the Ray family and the Ivy.

End of an era at New Ivanhoe Hotel in Blackheath

The Two Mile section of Jenolan Caves Road (pictured during roadworks last year) has been cut off since early July due to a landslip. Picture: Transport For NSW

Jenolan Caves Road is set to open later today.

Jenolan Caves Road to reopen after six-week closure

A RAAF Iroquois helicopter at Fire Support Base Discovery in May Tao, South Vietnam on December 2, 1969. Picture: Australian War Memorial EKN/69/0146/VN

Blue Mountains Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Day Service returns to Springwood

An artist's impression of part of the Great Western Highway duplication.

"Further geotechnical investigations along the corridor" are planned.

Preparations continue for highway duplication

Students at Lawson Public evacuated after gas leak.

Students at Lawson Public evacuated after gas leak

The mayor, Cr Mark Greenhill, near some roadworks being carried out by council.

New council pothole portal keeps residents in the loop.

Pothole portal to keep residents in the picture on the state of roads

Bins can continue to be political billboards: Mark Greenhill and his bin before the federal election with a picture of the former Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Blue Mountains Mayor Mark Greenhill has vowed to give every Blue Mountains resident the right to turn their garbage bin into a political billboard.

Stink over bins: Right to make bin a political billboard continues

New leader at Western: Growing up in housing commission in the Blue Mountains and on the NSW Central Coast, Jennifer Westacott said that experience has driven her throughout her life

Chief executive of the Business Council of Australia, and former top public servant Jennifer Westacott AO has been named the next Chancellor of Western Sydney University.

New chancellor for Western Sydney University

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A 74-year-old man will appear in court this month charged with stalking after allegedly approaching a 14-year-old girl in Leura.

Man, 74, charged with stalking, after approaching a girl

Bachelor of Cyber Security and Behaviour student, Thomas Rowe. Picture: Dinil Jayasekara, Western Sydney University

Thomas Rowe is on the frontline in the fight against cybercrime.

Meet Hazelbrook's 'digital defender' tackling cybercrime

Govetts Leap, Blackheath: Closed to vehicles from August 11. Picture: Simone Cottrell, DPE

Govetts Leap lookout at Blackheath closed to vehicles from August 11.

Govetts Leap to be closed to cars until 2023

Australia's News Media Bargaining Code made it easier for most Australian news media to do deals with global platforms such as Google and Facebook. Picture: Shutterstock

Public interest journalism is essential to a well-functioning society, even for those who do not watch or read it.

Australia's News Media Bargaining Code led the world. It's time to finish what we started

It is easy enough to become trapped in a cycle of constantly minimising your own capacity. Picture: Shutterstock

If arrogance and self-confidence are two different things, why are so many of us struggling with believing in ourselves?

Why believing in yourself is really important

Energy: Owners of 'Australian' companies are often foreign, an Australia Institute report has found

Government should tax windfall profits of gas firms: report

Female business owners fund a sizeable chunk of the $418 billion that small businesses add to GDP, and they have the capacity to contribute even more. Picture: Shutterstock

Levelling the playing field involves reducing red tape and taking steps to ensure contracts aren't awarded primarily based on existing connections.

Government should award more tenders to female small business owners

The Brisbane River flooding of 2011. Picture: Shutterstock

With scientists predicting more frequent and severe natural disasters, we need a full picture of their likely costs, who is going to pay, and how.

Calculating income tax revenue lost to natural disasters

Ultimately what we care about is the proportion of the population that is in work, rather than the number of jobs created, which can be related to population.

Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a '3'. How do we keep it there?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison campaigning with Bass MP Bridget Archer on Thursday. Picture: James Croucher

The unemployment rate has remained steady at 4 per cent as the federal election fight over jobs and economic management heats up.

'Not just luck': Frydenberg cheers steady 4 per cent unemployment rate

Prime Minister Scott Morrison with fourth year apprentice Jack Davie at Air Affairs Australia's Advanced Manufacturing Centre in South Nowra. Picture: James Croucher

The Prime Minister will use a campaign stop in Sydney to commit a re-elected Coalition government to creating 1.3 million over the next five years.

Coalition pledge 1.3m new jobs as Morrison eyes NSW battleground

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Pic: Getty Images

Just days away from entering caretaker mode, the Australian and Indian governments are signing a long-awaited trade deal.

Australia and India to sign interim trade deal

Engineers Australia's chief engineer Jane MacMaster said gender diversity in the field hasn't changed much since she studied 30 years ago. Picture: James Croucher

A new report calls for schools, government and industry to make a renewed effort to entice women and girls to become engineers.