Pallavi Singhal

Pallavi Singhal
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Reporter and social media assistant at The Sydney Morning Herald

Jessie the elephant is transported across Sydney Harbour in 1916 on a barge to the new Taronga Park Zoo.

Taronga Zoo to recreate 'Operation Noah's Ark'

At 5.30am on a Sunday morning exactly 100 years ago, Jessie, a 3600 kilogram elephant sauntered through Sydney's CBD.

Todd Stark, head gardener at Sydney Living Museums. He's pictured at Elizabeth Farm in Rose Hill.

Never-ending task: preserving Sydney's heritage gardens

All year round a team of gardeners works to preserve some of Sydney's oldest gardens, meticulously recreating them from 19th century paintings, photographs and snippets of letters.

This year, 77.6 per cent of HSC students are studying at least one maths subject.

HSC maths enrolments drop to lowest rate in 50 years

The percentage of HSC students studying mathematics has fallen to its lowest level in 50 years, while the number of students studying at least one VET course is at its highest.

Nearly half of international students enrolled in NSW universities are studying management and commerce courses.

International education in NSW grows to $7 billion

The value of international education to the NSW economy has jumped nearly 30 per cent in two years, with the state drawing about a third of Australia's total international education earnings.

Sydney's youngest and oldest suburbs revealed

Sydney's western suburbs are among its youngest, and a number of north shore postcodes are the oldest.

Nearly 9000 of the 13,000 fines issued by police during two weeks in August were for speeding.

NSW drivers, pedestrians cop 13,000 fines in two-week crackdown

Police issued more than 13,000 fines over two weeks in August, under a "high visibility" operation that has drawn concerns from lawyers about the excessive use of fines for relatively minor offences.

Students from Australia Street Infant School with their Street Library which was painted by kids in after school care.

School joins street libraries movement in a tiny reading revolution

Tiny street libraries popping up in front yards across Australia could soon outnumber conventional public libraries.

Seven-year-old Laurence Bennell in 2016 with a tree he planted four years ago in Roseville.

Australia gears up for 21st National Tree Day

Planet Ark is expecting about 300,000 people to plant 1.1 million trees on Schools Tree Day and National Tree Day,

Staff at Wok On Inn, which voluntarily displays its hygiene and food safety rating.

Push for food safety standards to be displayed

Some retail food businesses in NSW are being given the option to display their food safety and hygiene rating in the window, but only if their council signs up to the program and only if the business is happy with its rating.

Food & Wine: Susan Parsons Kitchen Garden. Grant Dumigan uses ground coffee as compost in his garden. 27th of February ...

Councils step ahead on climate action

They're the councils leading community action to move to renewable energy, and they already have plans to go beyond the federal government's emissions reduction target.

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