Premier Mike Baird has appointed a former deputy police commissioner to oversee the clean-up of central NSW, as the region braces for further floods.

Two workers left suspended 60 metres from the ground after the crane they were working on collapsed in Sydney have been discharged from hospital.

A pinch on the bottom sparked a man accused of murder to launch himself into a fight between two other men, a witness has testified.

Two brothers attacked a man whose burnt body was later found in a suitcase in a Sydney reserve, the victim's friend has told a jury.

There have been four shark attacks off the NSW coast this year, with only two of those victims injured.

Extra staff have been rostered on to deal with a series of rolling strikes by border protection workers at Sydney Airport.

An elderly man will undergo surgery after he was attacked by a knife-wielding man at an aged care facility in Sydney's south.

A man who was taken to hospital after being bitten by a shark off Lighthouse Beach at Ballina will only need a few stitches.

A man and a woman have died after a two-vehicle collision on a northern NSW road.

A piece of steel has been impaled in a man's leg after a fall at a northern Sydney construction site.

A 66-year-old woman is recovering in hospital after being struck by a car in Sydney's northwest.

Athletes from around Australia and the world will spend the week competing in the 15th Australian Transplant Games in western Sydney, to promote organ donation.

Almost halfway through its term, the NSW government has only delivered 7000 of 45,000 promised vacation care places, leaving thousands of families waiting.

The SES says people in flooded parts of central NSW might not be able to return home for days, due to rising waters which may cause power and sewage problems.

Rupert Murdoch made more than $US34.5 million last financial year.

The 29-year-old man involved in a violent altercation with guards at Adelaide's Yatala Labour Prison is brain dead, according to his family.

NSW Services Minister Dominic Perrottet has defended changes to opening hours at Service NSW outlets, which he says are based on demand.