Rachel Olding is a Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
One of two teenage boys arrested in Bankstown last year, allegedly moments away from an Islamic State-inspired knife attack, spiralled into mental breakdown after he was detained and tortured during a family holiday in Egypt, his father says.
Police are still at a loss to understand why a student at Bonnyrigg High School allegedly went on a stabbing rampage during roll call on Thursday morning.
Ten minutes after the first bell rang out at 8.42am at Bonnyrigg High School on Thursday, chaos unfolded in popular science teacher Carolyn Cox's classroom.
A radicalised white supremacist who was stockpiling homemade guns and weapons across Sydney had expressed an intention to commit a mass shooting at a popular Westfield shopping centre.
He has made a career out of conducting covert operations on unsuspecting spouses. But disgraced private detective Brett Sutcliffe, 37, has failed to cover his own tracks.
A man has been charged after he was allegedly found with 22 balloons of heroin in him in Centennial Park, in the city's east.
A Sydney man accused of fatally stabbing a dog spooked by New Year's Eve fireworks says he was bitten by the animal on his private parts.
She was a cocktail-loving, smiling "bright bubble of joy" who was on the up in the insurance industry.
"When you weigh it up, the way he was killed and the life he lived, it doesn't make sense."
A farming family from tiny Riverina town of Barellan is again in mourning following their second tragedy in just two weeks.
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