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Northern Beaches residents could soon be fit with a 40 per cent rate rise.

Beaches residents voted for an 11% rate rise. Their council is considering 40%

Protests are planned for Tuesday’s Northern Beaches Council meeting, where elected officials are hoping to mend a broken budget.

  • Nick Newling

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Families enjoy Balmoral Beach on Wednesday.

Renters pay $250 a year to park at these Sydney beaches. That fee could be dumped

Residents who pay rent would have access to the same free beach parking permits as property owners under a bid to level the playing field for tenants.

  • Megan Gorrey
Coastal erosion at Wamberal Beach is a significant environmental issue to be tackled by the new council.

These houses were sinking into the ocean. Now a council wants to fix it

After four years in administration, the Central Coast Council is prioritising the environment, infrastructure and housing.

  • Nick Newling
Putney Beach which is is opening as a swim site on Parramatta River this coming weekened. Photographed in Sydney on January 13, 2025. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer .

First Pondi, now Panly: The new Sydney beach seven years in the making

The beach in Sydney’s north could mark a turning point for more swimming spots to open across the city – but how safe is it to swim in the water?

  • Cindy Yin
NSW’s DA system is a maze holding up housing supply.

‘As confused as it is confusing’: The big handbrake holding back housing in Sydney

If Sydney can ever tackle its housing crisis and become affordable for young people, addressing the development application system needs to be at the top of the list of reforms.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo and Kayla Olaya
Signs opposing Burwood Council’s alternative housing plan on a Croydon home.

The Sydney suburb at war with itself

The state government’s railway station housing plan – and a local council’s alternative – is dividing an inner west heritage suburb.

  • Mary Ward
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Shark nets could be removed permanently from Sydney beaches.

Why shark nets might not return to Sydney’s beaches next summer

The science has been clear for some time that the mesh nets do little to protect humans, yet do much harm to non-target animals. The politics is finally catching up.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Unknown vandals have drilled multiple holes into a hundred year old fig tree, poisoning it.

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

  • Cindy Yin
Sydney’s renowned New Year’s Eve fireworks in 2019.

How one company got to rule Sydney’s New Year’s fireworks for 27 years

The City of Sydney has granted the famous Foti Fireworks company years of extensions to its contracts with the council.

  • Anthony Segaert
Sanjay Deshwal (left) was the president of the Little India Harris Park Business Association.

Group behind Harris Park’s Little India investigated over financial concerns

The spot was hailed as a night-time economy success story, but now the government is investigating if grant money it provided was used for the right purposes.

  • Anthony Segaert

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