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The State Government assures doctors the next stage of a $550 million upgrade to Nepean Hospital in Sydney's west will begin within two years.
Topics: health, government-and-politics, state-parliament, parliament, hornsby-2077, nsw, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedCity councils will battle on with their fight against council amalgamations, while regional centres celebrate, after the NSW Government's announcement of a split policy on forced council mergers.
Topics: state-parliament, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500
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| UpdatedThe NSW Government will push ahead with forced council amalgamations in the city, but will walk away from regional council mergers that are currently in court.
Topics: state-parliament, government-and-politics, local-government, nsw, uralla-2358, walcha-2354, bathurst-2795, oberon-2787, burwood-2134, blayney-2799, orange-2800, canada-bay-2046, strathfield-2135, dungog-2420, maitland-2320, hornsby-2077, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hunters-hill-2110, lane-cove-2066, ryde-2112, mosman-2088, north-sydney-2060, willoughby-2068, newcastle-2300, randwick-2031, shellharbour-2529, waverley-2024, wollongong-2500
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A controversial housing project in Sydney's North West is put on ice because of the traffic congestion it will cause.
Topics: housing, government-and-politics, hornsby-2077
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People with asthma are warned to stay indoors as city covered in smoke ahead of a hot day.
Topics: bushfire, sydney-2000, mount-kuring-gai-2080, hornsby-2077, penrith-2750
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| UpdatedA man shot by police after refusing to drop a knife he was holding at Hornsby shopping centre in Sydney's north last week is charged with attempted murder.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, hornsby-2077, nsw
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| UpdatedThe father of a psychiatric patient shot by police at a shopping centre on Sydney's north shore says his son was let down by the police and health system.
Topics: mental-health, police, crime, hornsby-2077, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA special commission of inquiry into the use of police force against people with mental illnesses is needed after yesterday's shooting on Sydney's north shore, the Greens say.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, mental-health, hornsby-2077
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Emergency crews respond to a police shooting at a shopping centre in Hornsby on Sydney's north.
Topics: police, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedThree bystanders suffer gunshot wounds after police open fire at a knife-wielding man, who had been reported missing from a psychiatric facility, outside Westfield shopping centre at Hornsby in Sydney's north.
Topics: crime, hornsby-2077, nsw
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| UpdatedA fire at a swimming pool chemical store in Sydney's northern suburbs forces about 50 people to evacuate from their homes over concerns for their health.
Topics: industrial-fires, fires, disasters-and-accidents, hornsby-2077
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Video shows the moment police arrest a man accused of stabbing a couple at a busy shopping mall on Sydney's upper North Shore.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, crime, murder-and-manslaughter, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedA man charged with murder and attempted murder over a stabbing attack on a couple at a shopping mall on Sydney's upper North Shore may have been motivated by jealousy, police say.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, domestic-violence, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedAround 70 nearby residents are evacuated after a crane collapses at a construction site in Sydney's north-west.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, hornsby-2077, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedThe maker of Hornsby's famous water-clock accuses the council of "neglecting" its masterpiece that has inspired affection, ridicule and many other emotions in between since it was built in the early 1990s.
Topics: laws, arts-and-entertainment, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedA woman is arrested for allegedly spitting in the faces of six different people at various train stations around Sydney over the past month.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, police, sydney-2000, bondi-junction-2022, hornsby-2077, north-sydney-2060, edgecliff-2027
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Police say the death of a woman whose body was found in bushland in Sydney's north at the weekend, was not suspicious.
Topics: police, death, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedNSW Police do not rule out murder as their investigation into the discovery of a woman's body on a fire trail in Hornsby in Sydney's north begins.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, hornsby-2077
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A woman caught drink-driving six times over the legal limit with three young children in the car in Sydney's north-west is sentenced to nine months' home detention.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, hornsby-2077, westleigh-2120
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Hornsby Heights Rural Fire Brigade turns 50 this year, and they have come a long way.
Topics: fires, bushfire, hornsby-2077, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA man is taken into custody after a Westfield shopping centre was closed during a police operation in Hornsby on Sydney's North Shore.
Topics: police, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedThe humble Hornsby Odeon turned 100 years old this year, defying the trend towards the mega-cinema experience.
Topics: small-business, film, history, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedEmergency crews have treated a woman for minor injuries after her car went through a car park railing at Hornsby shopping centre in Sydney's north.
Topics: accidents, emergency-incidents, hornsby-2077
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| UpdatedWind gusts of up to 90 kilometres an hour brought down power lines, cut traffic lights and delayed public transport across Sydney this afternoon.
Topics: weather, hornsby-2077, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedThe clean-up is continuing at Hornsby in Sydney's north after a tornado struck last night.
Topics: storm-event, hornsby-2077