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| UpdatedA number of flights arriving and departing Sydney Airport are delayed or cancelled due to wild weather, with heavy rain expected to lash the city as it hosts Mardi Gras this weekend.
Topics: weather, rainfall, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA burst water main on Pitt Street in the middle of Sydney's city centre is causing traffic chaos as commuters try to get home on a very rainy day, with many told to catch the train if they can.
Topics: road, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedFollow the live stats that matter as the Bulldogs take on the Storm before the South Sydney Rabbitohs face off against the Wests Tigers.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, sport, canterbury-2193, balmain-2041, sydney-2000, sydney-south-2000, nsw, australia, melbourne-3000, vic
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| UpdatedSydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson says he expects Mitchell Pearce to show on-field improvement in 2017 to match the improvements off-field since his NRL suspension.
Topics: sport, rugby-league, nrl, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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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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| UpdatedLast year they wore rainbow laces and now Sydney FC will step up their Mardi Gras support by walking onto the pitch behind a sea of rainbow flags.
Topics: sport, a-league, soccer, community-and-society, sexuality, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedLeonard John Warwick formally pleads not guilty to a string of murders and bombings in Sydney in the 1980s.
Topics: courts-and-trials, murder-and-manslaughter, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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The buildings of Sydney city are one step closer to being awash with street art after a proposal to reduce the paperwork needed to commission artworks on walls is passed.
Topics: street-art, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, sydney-2000
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All around your beach towel, a cornucopia of organisms are living in the sand — sometimes microscopic, and almost always out of sight.
Topics: marine-biology, ecology, biology, science-and-technology, sydney-2000, nsw, australia
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| UpdatedIn a homage to the female superhero Wonder Woman, 100 Glamazons draped in a colour palette of red, blue and gold will march at Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, events, carnivals-and-festivals, gays-and-lesbians, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedInsurance claims for damage caused by last month's hail storms across Sydney and Wollongong rise to $186 million, but there are concerns affected homes will be hit again with heavy rains forecast this weekend.
Topics: storm-event, storm-disaster, insurance, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedContractors' links to bikie gangs are discovered alongside dozens of major safety breaches and defects during a police safety blitz on vehicles involved in Sydney's WestConnex project.
Topics: road-transport, road, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000
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Badgerys Creek residents lose a court appeal to allow them to stay in their homes which sit in the path of Sydney's new airport.
Topics: air-transport, community-and-society, badgerys-creek-2171, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedFormer trainee soldier Alexander Gall is found not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of a colleague during a training exercise at Sydney's Holsworthy Barracks in 2012.
Topics: army, defence-forces, courts-and-trials, holsworthy-2173, sydney-2000, nsw
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Young musicians from across western Sydney, the Hawkesbury and Blue Mountains are busy rehearsing for the first performance of the Western Sydney Youth Orchestra.
Topics: orchestral, classical, music, music-education, arts-and-entertainment, human-interest, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe Maritime Union of Australia says it was recently prevented from conducting a safety inspection at a construction site at Sydney's Barangaroo where 32-year-old Tim Macpherson was crushed to death.
Topics: workplace, accidents, unions, millers-point-2000, sydney-2000
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Sydneysiders have endured their hottest summer since records began, with official data revealing records across the city were smashed during the 2016-17 season, and NSW had its third-hottest summer.
Topics: weather, sydney-2000, nsw
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Sydney house prices continued to boom in February, showing the rest of the country a clean pair of heels.
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Federal education regulators were still deciding whether to take action against a problem-plagued Sydney hairdressing college when it closed down leaving 800 students stranded, a Senate estimates hearing hears.
Topics: education, education-industry, university-and-further-education, government-and-politics, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA man is killed after being struck with a metal beam on a New South Wales Government construction site at Barangaroo, near Sydney's Darling Harbour.
Topics: workplace, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, work, death, police, millers-point-2000, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedKPMG urges Australia to get more 'chutzpah' and take risks in developing agtech start-ups to emulate Israel.
Topics: agricultural-prices, agribusiness, sydney-2000, wagga-wagga-2650, israel
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The NRL bans several exotic bets in its top-flight competition and punting on its under 20s league in a bid to boost the integrity of the sport ahead of tomorrow night's season opener.
Topics: nrl, rugby-league, gambling, sport, sydney-2000