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Sydney’s ageing pools are shutting for renovations.

More of the city’s pools to close as North Sydney hits yet another delay

Councils are trying to avoid another North Sydney pool fiasco as they spend millions on lengthy renovations.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Megan Gorrey

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Fisherman Jack Martin at Tower Beach.

Fresh tests ordered for cancer-causing chemicals at popular Sydney beach

The Botany Bay waters where young families swim and fishermen cast their lines have not been tested since 2018. That’s about to change.

  • Alexandra Smith and Cindy Yin
A beach next to Sydney Airport’s main runway has been closed to swimming due to PFAS

This Sydney beach is closed over cancer-causing chemicals. Many people are missing the signs

Families with young children continue to splash in the water, despite fears for their health.

  • Carrie Fellner
Zhuojun “Sally” Li (left) and her husband, Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen (right) were both killed then dumped in bushland beneath the flight path in Botany.

Man murdered, dumped in Botany was in ‘sophisticated’ drug operation

Police, who arrested Rex Chen in a drug sting operation two years ago, are hunting foreign hitmen over the murders of Chen and his wife.

  • Perry Duffin and Sally Rawsthorne
Double homicide: Zhuojun “Sally” Li (left) and her husband, Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen (right) were both killed then dumped in a Sydney park

Drug links to man whose body was dumped near Sydney airport

Missing Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen’s body was found less than 10 metres from where his wife’s corpse was discovered a week earlier.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The body of Zhuojun “Sally” Li (left) was discovered near Sydney airport on December 9, while a body believed to be that of her husband, Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen (right), was found nearby on Tuesday.

Husband and wife killed in ‘targeted double murder’ over financial debts, police believe

A body believed to be that of Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen has been found in Sydney bushland metres from where his wife’s body was discovered.

  • Riley Walter
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Homicide squad officers are investigating after a body was found in bushes near Sydney Airport.

‘Someone’s mother, daughter, sister, friend’: Woman’s body discovered near Sydney Airport

Police are now working to identify the woman whose badly decomposed body was found covered in plastic in bushland off Foreshore Drive in Botany.

  • Penry Buckley, Jessica McSweeney and Perry Duffin
Eastwood villa sells for $1.66 million on Saturday.

Eastwood villa sells for $1.66 million, almost tripling since 2007

Four downsizers from the suburb and surrounds registered to bid on the two-bedroom, two-bathroom home that last sold for $570,000 less than two decades ago.

  • Kristy Johnson
Bik’s cafe in Botany.

Seven years in Botany and loving every day

It’s a sign of the times when you need to move because a growing family demands more space.

  • George Palathingal
An artist’s impression of the Bexley North development, which is being opposed by Bayside Council.

Sydney council rejects 200 homes in 15 minutes

Bayside Council in the inner south is forging ahead with plans to ban apartment buildings in areas zoned for low- and medium-density housing.

  • Michael Koziol

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