‘Huge moment’: long-awaited extension to Sydney’s metro line to open next week, Minns reveals
The southwest metro extension will open on Friday 30 October, more than two years after the former T3 heavy rail line closedA long-awaited extension t...
Gone to the dogs: racing fans mourn closure of ‘Wenty’, Sydney’s historic greyhound track
Thousands pack Wentworth Park for the final time before the stadium is demolished and returned to parklandGet our breaking news email, free app or dai...
Boy, 13, charged with murder after man stabbed to death in Sydney’s west
A second boy, 16, was also charged in relation to the stabbing death of a 30-year-old man in Mt DruittA thirteen-year-old boy has been charged with mu...
Plans for Sydney’s controversial new public square in doubt after NSW government intervention
State planning minister declares project ‘state significant’, wresting approval process away from local councilPlans for a grand new public square in ...
Coogee ranks as Sydney’s worst ocean beach for faecal pollution – again
Seventy-nine per cent of all NSW swimming sites rated ‘good’ or ‘very good’, as state’s cleanest and most polluted beaches revealed Get our breaking n...
Jacinda Ardern and husband Clarke Gayford buy $5.3m home in Sydney’s northern beaches
Former New Zealand prime minister’s purchase biggest recorded in suburb of Dee Why this year Jacinda Ardern and her husband, Clarke Gayford, have boug...
One of Sydney’s largest councils joins ban on ‘pervert’ glasses at local swimming pools
Councillors say locals have been raising concerns about people secretly filming in change rooms, swimming pools and around schoolsGet our breaking new...
Sydney’s beaches enter the drone age to get swimmers back in the water after spate of shark attacks
Seventy beaches across New South Wales are part of the $34m dawn-to-dusk drone monitoring program, which one expert has called ‘the best technology we...
Three private school students charged after alleged sexual assault of 14-year-old girl in Sydney’s east
The three teenagers are students at Scots College, one of Sydney’s oldest all-boys’ private schoolsThree students from a Sydney all-boys’ private scho...
Sydney’s ‘unbuildable motorway’ to be completed after two-year delay caused by sinkholes
State government and consortium strike deal to complete M6’s twin tunnels with minister insisting there is ‘no extra cost to NSW taxpayers’Follow our ...
Sydney’s UNSW overtakes University of Melbourne in global rankings for first time
University of New South Wales ranks 19th in QS World University Rankings, with nine Australian universities achieving record-high positionsGet our bre...
One person dead and four in hospital after alleged shooting in Sydney’s south-west
NSW police establish crime scene at Canley Heights home after two pairs of men present at different hospitalsOne man has died and four others are in a...
‘This has to be a wake-up call’: NSW attorney general urged to order inquest into death of Sydney’s ‘birdman’
Alex Greenwich says inquest crucial to understand what failures led to Bikram Lama’s death and avoid similar deaths Get our breaking news email, free ...
Death of Sydney’s ‘birdman’ described as ‘beyond tragic’ by Albanese government
NSW housing and homelessness minister says Bikram Lama’s death shows the ‘gaps’ that people without residency can fall throughGet our breaking news em...
