Last day for sale of most paper tickets

Sarah Muller   Thursday will be the last day that people will be able to buy most paper tickets for NSW's public transport system, and commuters are being urged to get electronic Opal cards.

'Don't be disgusting' this new year

Lucy Cormack   Two sites along the Pacific Highway north of Sydney have been named as among the worst black spots in NSW for kerbside rubbish dumping.

Cashing in on New Year's Eve

Rachel Browne   Restaurants in prime locations and Uber drivers are set to do well - but others will also reap the benefits.

Surprise suburbs that are liveable, affordable

Michael Koziol   They are far from the CBD, removed from the tourist trail and unlikely to end up on a postcard. But these Sydney suburbs have been named as the cream of the affordable crop. 

'Too early' to renegotiate Gonski funding

Matthew Knott   NSW schools will remain inequitable and under-resourced unless the Gonski school funding deals are delivered in full, the NSW government has warned.

Sydney fireworks countdown begins

Daisy Dumas   How do you improve on a New Year's Eve display that each year promises to outdo anything Sydney has seen before? More fireworks, of course. 

Boys and girls of summer

Damien Murphy   A near tragedy 55 years ago gave rise to our biggest youth movement, The Nippers.

Inside the drug house where police found boy

Dan Proudman   The eight-year-old  alleged to have been locked in a tiny room within an uninsulated shed told police he was first thrown into the room for being naughty.

Ad agency defends 'stoner sloth' campaign

Eamonn Duff   "Stoner Sloth" is costing taxpayers half a million dollars, but his creators claim he is worth every cent.

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Children injured at trampoline parks

Harriet Alexander   As far as kids' activities go, the warning is about as ominous as they come with risks including serious injury and death.

Shortage of playing fields hits Saturday cricket

Julie Power   There's nothing like the sound of leather on willow on a Saturday morning – players dressed in white, padded up and ready for an all-day session – to conjure up the past. But that's rapidly becoming history.

Catholics defend $55 million a year program

Eryk Bagshaw, Alexandra Smith   One of the state's largest school networks has defended an under-fire program designed to help children with reading problems.

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2016: a big year for Sydney anniversaries

Tim Barlass   It will be a big year of anniversaries for some of Sydney's main institutions in 2016. We look at where some of main birthday celebrations will be.

Uber: prices set to soar on New Year's Eve

James Silver   Newly legalised Uber has offered no apologies for its inflated pricing system, meaning prices are set to soar in Sydney on New Year's Eve.

Two children critically injured in car crash

Louise Thrower and Georgina Mitchell   Two boys have been airlifted to hospital in a critical condition after a car crashed into a tree south of Goulburn on Saturday afternoon.

Man, 19, found dead in yard of home

Georgina Mitchell   A 19-year-old man has been found dead in the yard of a Wollongong home.

What really happens at a 5am sale

Lucy Cormack   More than 300 shoppers lined up outside the Elizabeth Street David Jones store on Saturday, all waiting for the big gold bell to herald the start of the annual Boxing Day sales.