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Sydney Town Hall.

The major changes coming to NSW local council meetings in 2026

Ratepayers at 128 NSW councils will be barred from speaking at meetings, and if they want to be heard must have their say one week earlier, among other changes.

  • Cindy Yin

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Sonia van de Haar, Natalie Bernuetz, and Gabrielle Pelletier were behind the design of the Willowdale Sports Precinct on Willowdale Drive, Denham Court.

Meet the women who unlocked the secret history of this Sydney site

Ancient camping sites where Indigenous people fired clay balls for underground ovens proved this development in south-west Sydney was anything but undeveloped.

  • Julie Power
As part of the St Ives Shopping Centre redevelopment, Sam Arnaout wants to develop a tavern.

The pokie king and the public land grab to expand a Sydney shopping centre

Iris Capital says its proposal hinges on it taking over laneways so the development can have more room for a gambling den.

  • Alexandra Smith and Harriet Alexander
Families enjoying the swan paddle boats on Lake Parramatta, which have been popular for a number of years.

The swan-shaped boats ruffling a Sydney council’s feathers

A boat-hire company has operated at this lake for almost a decade. The local council said it’s no longer safe to do so.

  • Ellie Busby
Index image for How much each local council chief executive in Sydney is paid.

The nine Sydney councils where the CEOs are paid more than $500,000

More than four in five chief executives take home more than NSW Premier Chris Minns. Find out how much your area’s top boss is paid.

  • Cindy Yin
Waverley Mayor Will Nemesh at Bondi Beach.

‘This is part of our history now’: How Bondi plans to rebuild after horror

A Sydney council will consider how to memorialise the massacre at Australia’s most famous beach, as the community grapples with the loss of “15 beautiful souls”.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Blacktown City councillors Bob Fitzgerald and Carol Israel resigned from Labor.

Sydney councillors quit Labor amid rate hike anger

Labor has lost majority control of Sydney’s largest council after two councillors accused their colleagues of “playing politics at an inept and dangerous level”.

  • Anthony Segaert
The crowd was large but mostly well-behaved, according to Randwick Council.

No arrests after 15,000 backpackers, expats leave ‘pigsty’ at Christmas Day bash

A clean-up operation lasted until the early hours of Boxing Day after the annual festive bash moved from Bronte.

  • Kayla Olaya, Daniel Lo Surdo and Jack Gramenz
Controversial Islamic preacher Wissam Haddad had been operating the centre despite not having development approval, Canterbury-Bankstown Council says.

Council to shut down Wissam Haddad’s Islamic centre

The preacher and the Al Madina Dawah centre have been in the spotlight after links with one of the Bondi shooters emerged last week.

  • Mostafa Rachwani, Jessica McSweeney and Perry Duffin
Alexandra and Wesley Nel walk along the completed Greenway with their son and dog on Sunday.

Thousands flock to Sydney’s version of New York High Line

The opening on Sunday of the GreenWay in the inner west quickly led those trying it out to compare it to the Big Apple’s popular walkway.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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