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A Yass pub says it's spending at least $50 a day on bottled water, while GPs are relying on hand sanitiser, as a treatment problem with the water supply remains one week on from when it started.

Residents in Yass, Murrumbateman, Bowning, and Binalong are told they should not drink tap water until further notice, and should use caution when bathing children.

The ACT Chief Minister is pushing a novel plan to help future residents of one planned community, shifting the border between New South Wales and the ACT. 

A state border may shift for the first time in more than 100 years due to a proposed development stretching from the north-west of the ACT into NSW farmland.

Bathing in dirty, smelly water is nothing new in this town where residents spend thousands of dollars on bottled water to avoid drinking the "rotten" local supply. 

Regional and rural communities are struggling to access legal services amid a funding review into legal aid which sees the "missing middle" who earn too much to be eligible unable to afford private representation.

Thirty-four-year-old Tina Quinn was last seen at a property on Yass River Road in mid-July.

Families are rallying against a Crown Lands plan to demolish holiday shacks that have been passed down through generations.

Yass Valley Deputy Mayor Jasmin Jones moved a motion at the council's meeting to take Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes's Welcome To Sex off local library shelves.

Yass Valley Council in New South Wales has voted down a motion to remove sex education book Welcome to Sex, co-authored by Yumi Stynes, from its library.

Service NSW says staffing shortages are behind the hefty waiting times for driving tests, as young people report travelling hours for provisional licences. 

Tina Quinn, 34, remains missing after last being seen at her Yass acreage on July 16. Authorities are expanding their search for the woman.

NSW Police are treating the fire as suspicious and want to hear from anyone who was in the area when the blaze started early this morning.

A popular farm vehicle that replaced quad bikes due to safety concerns is causing grief for farmers as a growing number of the vehicles have caught alight across New South Wales.

Multiple side by side vehicles have been catching on fire on farms in New South Wales.

The benefits of switching to renewable energy are hard to argue with, but some farmers say the up-front costs are too high and the technology isn't up to scratch.

Just 68 kilometres from the biggest policymakers in the country, Yass residents are protesting about the water supply in their town, saying it is brown and smells foul.

Founder of the Yass Queer Book Club, Cecelia Tanton-Wright says finding a community couldn't be more important.

The fire is now under control but authorities remain nervous a change in weather conditions could see the blaze jump containment lines. 

Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council says it has no choice but to propose steep rate increases, despite conceding some residents will not be able to afford about $800 extra each year. 

Since August an Aboriginal flag has flown outside the Yass Memorial Hall, but some said the decision was made without due process. Now, months after the flag was raised, a decision has been made to keep it there.

Scott Miller transported methamphetamine across NSW hidden in candles, with a judge saying the former swimmer played a "central role" in a drug supply operation.

Terrifying flash floods have ripped out trees, smashed cars into bridges and washed away furniture in the NSW Riverina and Southern Tablelands — leaving businesses and residents to clean up the mess.

Authorities say regional NSW dams are at their fullest since the 1990s ahead of a third La Nina is hanging around this spring.

NSW Southern Tablelands farmer Vinnie Heffernan plants nearly 80,000 trees and shrubs on his sheep property, and says it is helping prepare the land for the effects of climate change.