Sydney News

Wests Tigers respond to horror start to season by announcing the sacking of coach Jason Taylor.

With housing affordability a huge concern for many Sydney residents, one organisation is offering low to middle income earners the opportunity to live smaller and more cheaply in micro apartments.

In the next 20 years Sydney's west is expected to bear the brunt of population growth and areas traditionally used to grow food for people in the city are being squeezed out by developers.

A Sydney teenager's online petition prompts the New South Wales Government to cut the cost of car parking at public hospitals by about $200 a week.

A professor who has been at the forefront of providing health care vulnerable people around Sydney's Kings Cross for 30 years is calling for drug use to be decriminalised.

Round three of the NRL wraps up as Canberra hammers the Wests Tigers before Cronulla is shocked by St George Illawarra.

Facing retirement as one of New South Wales' longest serving police chiefs, Andrew Scipione says his work is not done in addressing domestic violence, the scourge of ice and associated violent crime.

Of all the nicknames the Sydney Harbour Bridge has received in the past 85 years, the Iron Lung is one that echoes its significance for those who built it between 1923 and 1932.

Louis Nowra's new history of the Sydney neighbourhood of Woolloomooloo is affectionate but shines light in some dark corners.

The Brumbies notch back-to-back wins over the NSW Waratahs for the first time in Super Rugby history.

Monopoly fans have voted in droves to replace three of the game's traditional tokens, the thimble, the boot and the wheelbarrow, with new tokens including a tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin and a rubber ducky.

Champion mare Winx makes it 16 wins in a row with an easy victory in heavy conditions at Rosehill in the Group One George Ryder Stakes.

Regional Express Airlines confirms their fleet will continue operating as normal despite one of their planes losing a propeller on a flight between Albury and Sydney yesterday.

Visitors get a glimpse of a rare newborn pygmy hippo learning to swim, in what could be the Taronga Zoo's cutest addition yet.

A Regional Express flight from Albury to Sydney is forced to make an emergency landing after losing one of its propellers while flying at approximately 6,000 feet with 16 passengers and three crew members on board.

Irrigators reliant on the Snowy scheme want reassurances water will be released when they need it, after the Prime Minister's announcement the hydro scheme will be expanded.

Macquarie Group submits a proposal to the NSW Government to build a metro station at Martin Place, complete with two office towers and shops on elevated terraces.

Even the luck of the Irish has not spared Sydney's St Patrick's Day celebrations from the drenching the city has received this week with the event now cancelled.

National Farmers Federation calls for energy solution, but farmers fighting coal seam gas fear it will be at their expense.

The New South Wales Government pledges $77 million towards the construction of a tunnel to bypass Sydney's Spit Bridge, just weeks out from the North Shore and Manly by-elections.

No solid news about the future make-up of the Super Rugby competition is leading to frustration in Australia, with speculation one team is likely to be culled.

The NSW Liberal Party finally have their candidates for the by-election — just three weeks away — with the former president of the NSW Liberal Women's Council winning party preselection for the seat of North Shore.

More than two years after the hostage situation at the Lindt Cafe, in which two people died, there is sill no timeframe to build a planned permanent tribute in Sydney's Martin Place.

In 1990, two Sydney schoolgirls were celebrated by The Bulletin as women who would make it in "a man's world". So did they? Ann Arnold tracks them down to find out.

The father of a young boy who died at a hotel in Hurstville, in Sydney's south in 2015, appears in Blacktown Local Court charged with manslaughter.