Today the permanent population is around 200 and this rises to about 500 in winter when gem seekers come from the south. In 1987 the production of opals from the White Cliffs fields was estimated ...

It has taken 15 years of construction, but the tiny New South Wales town of White Cliffs is now easy to get to from the rest of the world. The opal mining hamlet has never had a sealed road ...

Inquires by police indicate the pilot, whose body is yet to be formally identified, was the sole occupant of the aircraft. Emergency services responded to reports of an aircraft crash at an ...

Geoff Herrmann runs the outback hotel in White Cliffs, a popular drinking hole in the 'lunaresque' settlement in far west New South Wales, where people live under, rather than above, the ground.

A dust storm on Tuesday, November 20, left the rural New South Wales town of White Cliffs blanketed in a haze of red dust. There were reports of dust storms throughout regional New South Wales, ...

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