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Tony Wagener in the Bally bowlo.

Humble suburban bowls club thwarts casino giant

A multibillion-dollar American casino company’s attempts to introduce its brand to Australia may have come unstuck, thanks to a small suburban bowls club.

  • Cameron Atfield

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McDonald’s is seeking an amendment to allow it to operate 24/7.

The Sydney suburbs falling out of love with fast food

Australia’s insatiable appetite for fast food is hitting an increasingly sour note as local councils and community groups mount challenges over new stores.

  • David Barwell
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The three rules that rocketed this Sydney school up the HSC rankings

Boys are over-represented among struggling school students and under-represented in policy attention. Here’s how Balgowlah Boys and Marist College Eastwood found success.

  • Lucy Carroll
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Effie’s

From the roastie toastie to the kid’s funny-face bikkies, Effie’s is all sunshine and light.

Meg Garrido with her daughter Violet who attends Northern Beaches Secondary College Mackellar Girls Campus.

‘It would be crazy’: Parents fight co-ed proposal for Sydney’s top-ranked schools

The state government has floated a proposal to make several public high schools across the northern beaches, Hornsby and Kogarah co-educational.

  • Lucy Carroll
Northern Beaches Council

Northern Beaches Council: What your candidates said

There are 42 candidates up for election - none of them are endorsed by the Liberal Party after its failure to nominate in time.

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Graham James Kay.

Who is the ‘North Shore Rapist’, and how did he stay hidden in plain sight?

Graham Kay terrorised women and girls across northern Sydney. The state of NSW twice watered down the notorious sex offender’s release conditions, and he went on to offend again.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Perry Duffin
Gaenor Meakes outside the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday, and Bruce Lehrmann in a file photo.

Bruce Lehrmann caused $13,000 in property damage, landlord alleges

The luxury home on Sydney’s northern beaches was rented to the former political staffer, with the Seven Network picking up the $100,000 bill.

  • Samantha Lock
Gaenor Meakes outside the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday.

Bruce Lehrmann pursued by former landlord over alleged property damage

The owner of a luxury Sydney pad where Bruce Lehrmann lived rent-free under a deal with the Seven Network has appeared for the first time in a NSW tribunal.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Bruce Lehrmann, pictured on April 1 in the Sydney suburb of Balgowlah.

Lehrmann faces legal action from ex-landlord over Sydney northern beaches pad

Bruce Lehrmann, who lost a multimillion-dollar defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson last month, had his rent at the property covered by Seven.

  • Michaela Whitbourn and Kate McClymont

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