Lisa Visentin is an urban affairs reporter based in Sydney. She has previously worked covering courts and in federal parliament.
A Sydney man has been released from jail one week after he was charged over breaking into his former home after it was compulsorily acquired by the NSW government for the WestConnex motorway project.
A Sydney man who protested against the WestConnex motorway project is facing Christmas in jail after he was refused bail.
The City of Sydney will redouble its efforts to reduce emissions in a bid to bypass the federal impasse.
A man has died after he and another camper were struck by lightning during a camping trip on the top of Mount Warning, near Murwillumbah, as severe thunderstorms hit the state's north on Tuesday morning.
A large slice of undeveloped land on Sydney's northern beaches will be transformed into a new suburb with over 3,000 new homes in what is the latest bid by the Baird government to boost housing supply.
Councils across Sydney are taking the lead on affordable housing by adopting targets more ambitious than those set by the state government in a bid to tackle the city's housing affordability crisis.
Councils embroiled in legal challenges with the NSW Government over forced amalgamations say they are more resolute than ever in continuing their fight, even as a deadline for holding council elections elapsed on Wednesday.
Labor has accused the government of leveraging state-owned land to fill government coffers rather than provide housing for low-income workers.
A mixture of non-profit organisations, churches and academics want the Premier to tackle affordable housing.
An elderly man was bashed by a teenage boy at a train station in south Sydney on Saturday after he attempted to stop another boy from applying graffiti to the station's platform.
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