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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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Vic Labor govt locks in cabinet, deputy

Victoria has scrapped select COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates.

Warning as vaccine, mask rules ease

A woman's been charged with the attempted murder of a 74 year old man in New Norfolk, Tasmania.

Woman charged over Tasmanian shooting

Foreign minister Penny Wong's second trip to Southeast Asia will include her former home on Borneo.

Wong heads to Vietnam, Malaysia

The inaugural non-stop Qantas flight to Italy will take off from Perth on Saturday night.

Qantas opens Perth to Rome route

The process of finding and appointing a new CEO at GRNSW is underway, and this process will be an extensive one.

New role, same mission: making greyhound industry the best

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

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

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

92 years young: 'What hip replacement?' Joy Krippner at the exercise classes for over 60s in Lawson.

There's an old saying 'use it or lose it' and for participants of a special over 60 fitness program in Lawson nothing could ring more true.

Over 60s say personal training helps body and mind

Missing: Police have asked for help finding Zachary McLoughlin, aged 19, who was last seen leaving a hospital in Katoomba about 4pm on Thursday June 16.

Police are appealing for assistance to locate a 19-year-old man missing from the Blue Mountains area.

Search for missing man, 19 from Blue Mountains

Nomadic artist Jake Allen spent a few months in the Blue Mountains during lockdown and on his regular jogs around Wentworth Falls Lake was drawn to an ugly grey cement block which he was keen to paint.

New mural livens up Wentworth Falls Lake

Star on the rise: Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis movie. Picture: Warner Bros.

Lower Blue Mountains Rotary and Glenbrook Cinema are delighted to announce the return of their highly popular charity movie nights!

Elvis screening for charity

Potholes a plenty: Mayor Mark Greenhill said council should borrow if it needs to fix the urgent issues following March floods.

All the Mountains villages and towns are in desperate need for road repairs and Mayor Mark Greenhill has asked council to borrow money to fix the roads if it has to.

Borrow to fix the roads if we have to

Queen's Birthday Honours: Championed the needs of Stolen Generations, those in out-of-home care and in the juvenile justice system, for many years, Aunty Glendra Stubbs.

She's a proud Wiradjuri women and a strong voice for her people, especially those in the Stolen Generations.

Glendra's honour

From little things big things grow: Ruby Thompson of Hazelbrook (Wiradjuri), Madeline Betts of Lawson (Kamilaroi) and Eva Bigland of Hazelbrook (Wiradjuri) in their new uniforms at the Lapstone courts, on Explorers Road Lapstone late last month.

When the Mid Mountains Netball Club decided to change the players uniform, the strong feeling was it should reflect First Nations people.

First Nations 'warm embrace'

Sean Burford of Glenbrook: Flushing out the nation's public facilities keeps him busy.

He has the moniker of the great Australian dunny hunter.