The New South Wales Government is under fire over reports a Sydney high school scanned its students' fingerprints without parental consent.

The Federal Government's plans for greater accountability for health funding have hit their first stumbling block, with New South Wales effectively vetoing the idea of league tables to compare hospitals.

The University of Sydney will set up a number of outreach clinics to help improve Indigenous health in remote western New South Wales communities, thanks to a mystery $10 million donation.

The Federal Government's move towards a new industrial landscape is one step closer, with a new report outlining a changed workplace relations system.

The Sydney Chamber of Commerce has called on the New South Wales Government to fix the problems that led to the failure of the Tcard venture before it embarks on a new cashless ticketing system.

Winemakers from across Australia are expected to travel to the New South Wales Hunter Valley today for the funeral of respected vigneron Trevor Drayton.

A new report has found a national carbon trading scheme could wipe out the expected $15 billion windfall to New South Wales taxpayers from privatising the electricity sector.

There are fears the New South Wales Government has abandoned its promise to businesses to overhaul the state's workplace health and safety laws.

It is tragically ironic that as South Sydney Leagues Club is looking at scrapping its poker machines, the NSW Government is considering a move that will further strengthen gambling's grip on the state by allowing pubs to introduce the Keno lottery game.

Dubbo's jazz festival is vying to be the top event of its kind in New South Wales. The Dubbo Jazz Club will stage its 17th annual festival from today, which is expected to attract hundreds of jazz lovers from the eastern states to central western NSW.

The New South Wales Transport Minister, John Watkins, says he will consider issuing bus drivers with DNA kits so passengers who spit on them can be traced by police.