A Sydney council has secured a legal win against the NSW Government after disputing the amount of compensation it would receive for land forcibly acquired for a major tunnel project.
A major construction company has struck a $100m deal to acquire a Parramatta site, on which it is set to build smaller twin towers than the skyscrapers once proposed by fugitive developer Jean Nassif.
A push to stop pedophiles using “good character” references in courts has sparked opposition from the state’s top prosecutors, but victim advocates say the practice is “insulting” and “retraumatising”.
A top Sydney private school wants to replace an “outdated” pool with a new heated one, which will be deeper and better shaped to facilitate water polo. Here’s how it would look.
A developer has been given the green light to bulldoze a run-down, graffiti sprawled building dubbed by locals as the ‘eyesore of Chatswood’ after a planning battle with Willoughby Council.
One of Sydney’s biggest accounting firms is setting ambitious gender hiring targets in a bid to level the playing field between female and male workers in the highly competitive sector.
The man who wants to replace former NSW energy minister turned national climate tsar Matt Kean in parliament has called for the state to drop its ban on nuclear power. Here’s why.
The shock butchering of two beloved stingrays, found hacked to death in Sydney Harbour, has sparked calls for a crackdown on “unscrupulous” fishers. But the state’s peak fishing body thinks it’s “the dumbest idea on Earth”.
A new Sydney fast food outlet will be unable to operate 24/7 for indoor diners following community backlash, with locals claiming it could increase obesity rates and provide “would-be criminals a dark playground”.
Teenage advocates have reignited a push for the state’s voting age to be dropped from 18 to 16, claiming youngsters are being “ripped off” and “denied a fundamental right in our democracy”.
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