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Li-Ray Kin’s outrigger canoes were vandalised in Sydney.

Ropes cut, holes drilled: Mystery vandals target Sydney boat club

Canoe and dragon boat paddlers have been forced to either store their boats for two years or leave them open for vandals while their harbour park base is redeveloped.

  • Jessica McSweeney

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The Bridge Road Cycleway at the junction with Glebe Point Road in Glebe, where cyclists merge from their protected path with cars.

The cycleway from hell was paved with good intentions. They need to come back

The competing needs of cyclists, motorists and pedestrians have long been divisive, but the Bridge Road route has only succeeded in uniting people in opposition.

  • The Herald's View
Cyclist on the Bridge Road Cycleway at the junction with Glebe Point Road in Glebe, where cyclists merge with trucks and cars from their protected path.

‘This isn’t the right road’: The Sydney bike path that everyone opposes

A Greens MP and a City of Sydney councillor are among cycling enthusiasts who have echoed community concerns about the cycleway.

  • Megan Gorrey
A couple bid against themselves to secure a ‘famous’ Wahroonga home at auction on Saturday for $2,905,000.

Couple bid against themselves to secure ‘famous’ Wahroonga home for $2,905,000

A couple were drawn to the upper north shore home for its Tudor-style architecture, and bid against themselves three times to secure it at auction.

  • Kristy Johnson
Plans by Wesley Mission to turn the vacant RJ Williams building at Glebe into affordable rental units have been abandoned.

Plan to turn inner-city vacant block into affordable housing scrapped

This Glebe unit block has sat empty and decaying for more than a decade, with plans for affordable housing. Now the charity owner is selling the site to the highest bidder.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Pyrmont Bridge will get a decade-long facelift.

This Sydney landmark is crossed 16,000 times a day. It’s about to get a $60m makeover

The work to restore and repair the inner-city bridge coincides with plans for more intensive development west of the city centre.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Matcha and pistachio tarts from Yin Viennoiserie.

Yin Viennoiserie

This venue is a finalist for best treats in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Josie Lehmann and Isla Eade train in Blackwattle Bay.

‘Like putting a highway across a park’: The problem with the fish market ferry plan

Sydney’s rowers and kayakers are worried about being run over by ferries.

  • Megan Gorrey
The roof comprises 400 panels arranged to resemble fish scales.

Four hundred roof ‘scales’: A glimpse at the new $836m Sydney Fish Market

The mammoth building has been likened to the Opera House and is expected to draw 6 million visitors a year.

  • Megan Gorrey
Georgie overlooks the beer garden at the White Cockatoo in Petersham.

The pub renovation, a beloved cockatoo and the search for a new home

When a Sydney pub was sold this month, the plight of its cockatoo-in-residence became the locals’ crusade to find it a new home.

  • Frances Howe

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