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Western Sydney has had malls for more than 50 years.

Concerts, weddings and a famous fruit bowl: How shopping centres changed western Sydney

For decades, western Sydney’s shopping centres were the beating heart of our suburbs. As they enter a new era, there’s a fresh push to preserve their history.

  • Anthony Segaert

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The Wentworth Street offices were raided by the integrity agency on Monday afternoon.

Hours before a council meeting, ICAC raids City of Parramatta staff offices

Officers took over the council staff’s boardroom and seized devices.

  • Anthony Segaert, Ellie Busby and Mostafa Rachwani
Tow truck driver Brett Jenkins at a workshop in Yennora, Sydney, Tuesday, 15 July 2025. Freeway and infrastructure tolls are screwing small business operator and tradies in western Sydney who are dependent on the roads. p5mett . Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald

‘It’s destroying us’: The Sydney workers who don’t qualify for toll cap relief

While drivers of Class A vehicles – cars and motorcycles – qualify for NSW’s $60 toll cap, small businesses and sole traders can spend hundreds a week.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
The historic Roxy Theatre in Parramatta has remained shuttered for over a decade now.

This historic theatre sits in the heart of a booming city. It’s been closed for more than a decade

As the city rises around it, the Roxy’s future remains in doubt. Here’s why.

  • Ellie Busby
Josh and Courtney Blake, with daughter Mackenzie at home in Schofields, depend on the $60 a week toll cap to manage their budget.

Josh’s toll bill is about to rise 233 per cent. He’s not alone

Motorists in western Sydney are set to feel the sting from the end of toll cap in January and they are left to guess what relief is on the way.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
The winning design announced for the new $188M Riverside Theatre in Parramatta was announced in May.

Sydney council’s funding vow to secure $276m Broadway-style theatre

An ambitious redevelopment of Parramatta’s live theatre complex had come up short $93 million. The council has promised to fill the gap.

  • Anthony Segaert
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The City of Parramatta, with council chambers in the PHIVE building at Parramatta Square, has paid out millions to exiting staff in recent years.

Millions in secret payouts: Inside the City of Parramatta’s staff crisis

One of the largest and most powerful councils in the state has spent millions of ratepayer dollars paying out staff in secret agreements.

  • Anthony Segaert
Woman charged over alleged spiritual blessing scam.

‘FIFO criminals’: Police hunt 50 alleged scammers over $3 million spiritual blessing fraud

Elderly Chinese women were approached and told their loved ones would be “cursed” if they did not hand over money and valuables to be “blessed”, police say.

  • Josefine Ganko
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What the NSW budget means for western Sydney

There are four areas of the state budget impacting residents in the western half of Sydney.

  • Anthony Segaert
Two boring machines have been halted for weeks several hundred metres east of the site of a station, pictured, for Metro West in Parramatta’s CBD.

Bungle brings largest metro tunnel build to a grinding halt

Two giant boring machines have been at a standstill for at least six weeks due to fears they will dig too close to a Parramatta building’s foundations.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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