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Community assets manager Andrew Killingsworth deep inside St James station’s abandoned southern tunnels.

Sydney’s ghost tunnels are finally ready to reveal their secrets

The abandoned tunnels at St James station will be opened to daily ticketed tours – almost 100 years after they were completed.

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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Craig and Lindsay Foreman (left) in Iran before their arrest.

‘If you have blue eyes and blonde hair, Iran is not safe’: Tourists warned after couple’s arrest

Days before they were detained, Craig and Lindsay Foreman said they knew their travel route to Australia was high risk but they were going to go anyway.

  • Max Stephens and Akhtar Makoii
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NSW promotes EV-friendly road trips to tackle range anxiety

The routes – ranging from 171km through the Snowy Mountains to 819km along the Pacific Coast from Sydney to Tweed Heads – are kitted out with public charging stations at least once every 100km.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons and Nick O'Malley
Swimming and other recreational activities are prohibited at Mundaring Weir.

Take the plunge? Push to open WA drinking water catchment for recreation

Kayaks and swimmers in public drinking water supply? Other states do it, so why don’t we?

  • Claire Ottaviano
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Ditching the rivalry

For trans-Tasman goodwill.

On Bali, the velocity of change can be bewildering.

I’ve been visiting Bali for 31 years – it has become worse every year

In three decades, the destination has been transformed from a tropical paradise into a centre of mass tourism.

  • Ryan Ver Berkmoes
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Joseph Moran wears the medals from every major marathon he has won.

Joseph has run every major marathon in the world. But he’s been rejected from his home city’s

The Sydney Marathon received eight times the amount of international applicants from the year before, but with overwhelming interest, some locals have missed out.

  • Frances Howe
Edward Whisson was the skipper of the Falls Express that crashed into rocks at Horizontal Falls in May 2022.

Horizontal Falls skipper, boat company fined over horrific crash

Edward Whisson was the master of Falls Express, a tour boat with 25 passengers on board in May 2022, when it hit rocks at the popular tourist destination. On Thursday he and the company he worked for were fined over the incident.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Relax by the private pool.

Up to $147,000 a night: Inside the world’s most expensive hotel rooms

A glimpse inside 10 of the most extravagant suites around the world, from London, Paris and New York to Monaco and Marrakesh.

  • Brian Johnston
A ranger photographed the juvenile dingo eating the fish on the beach.

Two-year-old bitten in second dingo attack in two days

The attack was the second such incident of the Australia Day long weekend, and follows the biting of a young child last week.

  • Suzanne Simonot

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