One of Sydney’s biggest councils is vowing to focus on rates, roads and rubbish as it moves to ban councillors from engaging in international politics and refuse political events on public land.
Tensions have boiled over behind closed doors of a Sydney council over a string of incidents in which one councillor was labelled ‘stupid’ and accused of wasting council time with ‘inane’ and questions.
The doors to a popular Bay Run cafe have closed to customers in the wake of a council decision to grant the tender to operate the site to a high end dining and wedding venue.
A Sydney council has been left red faced over a speed bump labelled a ‘stuff up’ that motorists say has damaged their cars and impacted the mayor’s own vehicle.
Users of a long-running Bondi surfing initiative have been left frothing for all the wrong reasons after ‘safety’ and ‘public liability’ concerns forced boards to be removed from the beach.
A Sydney council is facing a court challenge and criticism from sporting groups over its decision to reject a new recreation facility aimed at addressing soaring demand for playing facilities.
A Sydney couple has been left stunned after a local council ordered them to remove a Holocaust memorial from the garden of their home.
An audit of one of NSW’s biggest male and female prisons has called for sections of the facility to be shut down over concerns inmates are living in conditions that fail basic amenity standards.
One of Sydney’s top private schools has released plans to more than double its student headcount as part of a $28m expansion. Here’s what’s planned.
Locals have aired mixed opinions over a Sydney council’s plan to paint a mural on the entire side of an inner city house with some residents fearing it will turn the suburb into a “ghetto”.
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