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Mayor Sue Heins and state MP James Griffin at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Northern Beaches Council’s Freshwater Beach Playground, before it was abruptly shut.

This northern beaches playground opened in November. So why has it spent three months shut?

The $1.05 million Freshwater Beach Playground was opened with great fanfare last year – but it abruptly closed after a piece of equipment broke, injuring a child.

  • Anthony Segaert

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The modernist interiors at St Alma in Freshwater.
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Tacos and tequila-based cocktails with a side of coastal languor.

Coral trout crudo with bottarga.
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Pilu at Freshwater

Seaside institution that’s still as fresh as an ocean breeze.

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Our seven favourite Sydney homes for sale right now

From a renovated whaler’s cottage to a corner-block designer terrace, we’ve got you covered.

  • Pauline Morrissey
The contents of a black bag containing 39 bricks of cocaine discovered by Newcastle’s Ocean Baths.

Five more cocaine ‘bricks’ washed up on Sydney beaches as drug mystery deepens

More than a quarter of a tonne of cocaine has bobbed up on beaches in the region since December, with the latest packages found at Freshwater and Curl Curl.

  • Ben Cubby
The mother of Ivan Korolev, 18, thanked people for their support after his body was recovered from Freshwater Beach on Sunday morning.

Mother said teen who died was bodysurfing with friends

The mother of Ivan Korolev, 18, thanked people for their support after his body was recovered from Freshwater Beach on Sunday morning.

  • Laura Chung
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Police were searching for a missing 18-year-old man off Freshwater Beach on Saturday evening.

Body found in search for teen missing at Sydney’s Freshwater Beach

Police have found a body after an 18-year-old swimmer was reported missing off Freshwater Beach in Sydney’s north on Saturday.

  • Anthony Segaert and Harriet Alexander
Adam Gilchrist has sold his house in Freshwater.

F45’s Adam Gilchrist cashes in second Freshwater house for multimillion-dollar profit

F45’s Adam Gilchrist - not the cricketer - never went through with his grand plans for the site, but secured a bullish result for his Freshwater property play.

  • Lucy Macken
Adam Gilchrist bought the three-bedroom house by Freshwater Beach in 2017 for $5.4 million.

F45’s Adam Gilchrist ends grand Freshwater housing play amid $8m hopes

F45’s Adam Gilchrist once described Freshwater as the “best beach in the world” amid grand plans for his double block behind the car park. He’ll be hoping someone agrees after he listed the final piece to it this week.

  • Lucy Macken
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St. Alma in Freshwater is more Mex than Tex

This Mexican cantina is the type of place you'll want to hang out at on the way to or from the beach.

  • Terry Durack

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