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PATIENT OPTIONS: Kirsten Pilatti, BCNA CEO talks with Elizabeth Blane in Latrobe, Tasmania during a Breast Cancer Network Australia event. Picture: Paul Scambler

GPs and advocates want to see the telehealth program extended to provide patients with more options on how they access medical care.

Call to re-instate, expand telehealth services ahead of July 1 cut-off

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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Refugees showcase their detention art

The automated digitisation of the Australian National Herbarium's collection will take nine months.

Australian National Herbarium goes digital

Liton Das made 53 in Bangladesh's first innings of the second Test against the Windies on St Lucia.

Touring Bangladesh improve in second Test

HEARTBREAKING: Dementia Australia says diagnoses of the disease is projected to increase to 41,250 people by 2058.

Imagine being told your husband, not yet 60, has dementia. Julie De Napoli shares her story to help others.

So you thought only 'old' people got dementia...

Australia has to come up with an end-of-life plan for used wind turbines, says a leading academic.

End-of-life plan urged for wind turbines

Stefanos Tsitsipas has powered into the final of the Mallorca Championships.

Good omens for Tsitsipas in Mallorca run

Champion: Ninety-year-old Roy Bennett with his gold medals for javelin and discus.

State record for 90-year-old Roy Bennett.

Veteran's record throw

Once the site is operational - a milestone said to be close - the company will start taking newcomers, but they'll have to pay $150,000 to be indefinitely stored in liquid nitrogen.

Second shot at life, or pure science fiction? Either way, it's on our doorstep

Greyhounds As Pets GM Dr Alicia Fuller spoke to the group about all facets of the program. Photo: Supplied

On June 8 the Parliamentary Friends of Greyhounds Racing were finally able to host Greyhounds Racing NSW at a gathering at parliament house

Friends of greyhounds united at parliament

Solar powered savings as NBMLHD embraces sustainability.

Solar powered savings as Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District embraces sustainability

Blackheathens and Bendigo Bank board members celebrate the 98 solar panels on the roof of the town's community hall.

Solar panels start a cleaner greener future for Blackheath community hall.

Seeing the light: Blackheath hall goes solar

The school community at Our Lady of the Nativity Primary Lawson came together for an extra chilly but heartwarming Winter Sleep Out to support those doing it tough this winter.

PHOTOS: Lawson students brave the cold to support those in need

Bob Clark of Bob's Biscuits at the Springwood Growers Market.

Blue Mountains business, Bob's Biscuits, is hitting the sweet spot since launching in 2020.

Bob's Biscuits are hitting the sweet spot

Thu Le: Founder of Hearty Center in Katoomba.

New cancer retreat opens in the Blue Mountains.

Hearty Center in Katoomba opens its doors

Member for Macquarie Susan Templeman speaks with Fijian Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, at the first Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).

Federal Member for Macquarie Susan Templeman has attended the first Meeting of State Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

MP Susan Templeman represents Australia at landmark nuclear weapons ban treaty in Vienna

NSW Bushfire Hub researcher Dr Hamish Clarke.

Learning lesson from 2019-20 bushfires

Monitoring resident satisfaction: Blue Mountains Council CEO Rosemary Dillon and Mayor Mark Greenhill.

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Blue Mountains City Council has released its 2022 report card at the May council meeting and the response is mixed.

Council's 2022 report card

In firing line: A resident of Berambing, on the border of Blue Mountains and Hawkesbury local government areas, struggling during the December 2019 bushfires. Picture: Jochen Spencer

Backburn tried to evade bad weather but blew out of control.

Backburn took out homes in 2019 bushfires: Inquiry

Blue Mountains City Council has launched a business mentorship program.

Council launches new business mentorship program

The Whitton Street home in Katoomba where a man died following a fire.

A man has died following a house fire in Katoomba on June 21.

Man dies in house fire in Katoomba

Nature walks are planned in Mt Tomah's gardens.

Chase away the winter blues with colourful lanterns inspired by the beauty of the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden's iconic plant species.

What's on in winter at Blue Mountains Botanic Garden

Revival: The return of Winter Magic will take place in Katoomba on August 26-27.

Revival of Winter Magic Festival on the way

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Pressures of COVID played on emergency departments.

Hospitals under pressure during peak of Omicron outbreak: Report

PHOTOS: Winter solstice celebrations in Katoomba

Local support: Information stall about Julian Assange in Katoomba Street.

Local call for loudhailer to save Assange.

Blue Mountains group calls for government action over Assange

Performing at MONA: Opera singer Jo Truman has been given funding for a new Blue Mountains work. Seen here at MONA FOMA. Picture: Alia Grinvalds.

She counts as one of her career highlights, singing for MONA - the controversial Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, Tasmania.

Songbird's call on bushfires and climate change

Try this design instead: A more understated approach to the lake's accessible bridge.

Early reaction has been mixed to the Blue Mountains Council proposal for a new accessible walkway bridge at Wentworth Falls Lake Park.

New look for Wentworth Falls walkway bridge after community feedback

A speech given by Lisa Wilkinson, centre, prompted Bruce Lehrmann, right, to seek a stay of his trial over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins, left. Pictures: Karleen Minney, Sylvia Liber, Supplied

A speech by journalist Lisa Wilkinson prompted an application to delay the trial, which was granted on Tuesday.

Higgins trial delayed as publicity 'obliterates' distinction between allegation, guilt

Aboriginal teenager Kumanjayi Walker, left, was shot three times by Constable Zachary Rolfe. Pictures: Supplied, Sarah Matthews

The jury in the murder trial of Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe has been advised not to be swayed by their emotions or outside opinions.

Jury begins deliberating in Zachary Rolfe murder trial

Assistant Commissioner Travis Wurst. Picture: Sarah Matthews

The team of police officers who set out to arrest Kumanjayi Walker on the night he died were only deployed to provide respite for the overstretched local officers, the NT Assistant Police Commissioner has told the Zachary Rolfe murder trial.

Rolfe's team not deployed to arrest Walker: Assistant Commissioner

Kumanjayi Walker's family leave the Darwin Supreme Court. 

Kumanjayi Walker's uncle has taken to the witness stand to relive the moment he heard gunshots from inside the house two police officers had just entered in search of his nephew on the night of his alleged murder.

Kumanjayi Walker's uncle relives moments before nephew's shooting

Zachary Rolfe, front, leaves the Darwin Supreme Court with supporters on the third day of his trial, and Kumanjayi Walker, inset,was involved in a violent incident with police three days before his death. Pictures: Sarah Matthews and Facebook

Policing is done differently in Aboriginal communities compared with urban areas, the court has heard on the third day of NT cop Zachary Rolfe's murder trial.

Police officers warned Kumanjayi Walker's family before his death, court hears

Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from the Blue Mountains.

Update: Found | Police appeal for information to find man missing from the Blue Mountains area

UNDERWAY: Zachary Rolfe leaving the Darwin Supreme Court with a number of supporters on the first day of the trial. Picture: Sarah Matthews

A resident of Yuendumu gave evidence about visible weapons on the night Kumanjayi Walker was allegedly murdered.

NT police team looked like they were 'going to shoot someone': witness

Zachary Rolfe, centre, leaves the Darwin Supreme Court with supporters on the first day of his murder trial. Picture: Sarah Matthews

The murder trial of NT Police officer Zachary Rolfe is expected to run for an extra week because of COVID-19 protocols.

Special COVID rules to extend NT cop murder trial an extra week

A large contingent of police officers cleared an illegal camp of hundreds of anti-vaccine mandate protesters outside the National Library of Australia on Friday morning. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

An additional three anti-vaccine mandate protesters were arrested on Wednesday.