Sydney News

She Will Reign's preparation for the Golden Slipper is being helped by a tight bond the filly has developed with the nine-year-old granddaughter of one of her owners.

A police officer who slapped the testicles of a senior colleague — who later had one surgically removed — is found not guilty of grievous bodily harm.

Police are investigating after the bodies of a woman and a child are found in a unit in Hillsdale in Sydney's east.

Recruitment is changing fast. Specific tertiary degrees are becoming less relevant, and the buzzword is diversity. That's got employers thinking more laterally about who they need.

A fight that has pitted Mike Baird against Tony Abbott, a homegrown local against a powerful party insider, and the moderates against the right, will end tonight when a Liberal candidate for the state seat of Manly is preselected.

Parramatta winger Semi Radradra has been given the freedom to shift across field by coach Brad Arthur, and it is paying the NRL club dividends.

One in 50 festival-goers were found with drugs at a music event in Sydney's eastern suburbs on a weekend that saw nearly 150 people caught with illicit substances — including at an under-18s festival.

Semi Radradra scores four tries in Parramatta's 34-16 triumph over St George Illawarra, while Penrith flexes its muscle to hammer Wests Tigers 36-2 as round two of the NRL wraps up.

A 23-year-old man who was fishing off rocks without a life jacket dies after being swept into the ocean, while another angler, also without a life jacket, is rescued in a separate incident thanks to someone throwing him a flotation device.

Former Wests Tigers centre Tim Simona comes clean on his drug use, gambling addiction and embezzlement of charity funds.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull sits on a couch wedged between satirical newspaper Betoota Advocate's staff for beers and "a bit of chinwag" at a pub in Sydney's Woolloomooloo.

Wests Tigers coach Jason Taylor says the club was "disappointed" in Tim Simona, but will be support their player during this difficult time.

The average price of taxi licences in Australia's most populous city has fallen below half what it was at the launch of ride-booking app Uber.

Neighbours of the man who allegedly pretended to be Dr Sarang Chitale say they have not seen him for months and when they contacted him he told them he was working overseas.

A beauty college run by a National Party donor that had its computer systems "maliciously" hacked the day it went out of business is still, months later, unable to help its students gain access to their academic records.

Sydney FC squeezes out a 1-0 win over Central Coast on Friday night to come within touching distance of the Premiers' Plate.

The Uniting Church in Australia apologises to children sexually abused in its congregations while senior members of the Jehovah's Witness church defend the two witness rule and the shunning of victims.

A man who gave his girlfriend ecstasy tablets before she died is given a 12-month good behaviour bond, which the girl's mother says will just allow him to continue partying.

South Korea destroys 20 per cent of its poultry industry with avian influenza while China records serious strains that has spread to people.

Hundreds of fans line the streets outside Sydney's iconic State Theatre to welcome US actor Josh Gad who plays Disney's first openly gay character, LeFou, in a remake of Beauty and the Beast.

For thousands of years the Aboriginal people of Parramatta smoked eel for seasonal feasts, but the practice was slowly lost as British settlers brought their own recipes.

One of Australia's big shopping centre chains is trialling robotic cleaners, so what does that mean for the future of blue-collar jobs?

Wests winger Tim Simona is out of the NRL after the league found he had bet against the Tigers and been untruthful when interviewed by the integrity unit.

The driver of a car, who was being followed by police, has died after colliding with a school bus in Sydney's west and injuring several students.

Three hundred people pack into the Redfern Community Centre for the first public consultation on the redevelopment plan for the Block but angry protesters force the meeting to be shut down.