National

Eryk Bagshaw

Eryk Bagshaw is a journalist with Fairfax Media

Parents are pushing house prices up in suburbs within popular school catchments.

Sydney's most dangerous school zones revealed

NSW drivers were caught speeding through school zones more than 80,000 times in the past year while children as young as five were being dropped off by their parents, new data obtained from the Office of State Revenue by Fairfax Media has revealed.

Halloween pumpkin.

The costume NSW schools are banning for Halloween

Several NSW schools have banned students from wearing "creepy clown" outfits for Halloween celebrations in the wake of the phenomenon sweeping the United States and copy-cat pranksters appearing closer to home.