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Nick A’Hern has discovered disturbing levels of forever chemicals in his blood, after his tap water supply was contaminated. A’hern, his partner actress Joanne Samuel and his son have all recovered from cancer.

Nick and his family were stalked by cancer. Then came a blood-test bombshell

Nick A’Hern and his actor wife left Sydney for a pristine place to raise their children, but have since discovered their tap water was toxic.

  • Carrie Fellner

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  • Pauline Morrissey and Lou Sweeney
A new mobile water filtration plant will be installed at Katoomba to remove cancer-linked PFAS contaminants from tap water supplies.

‘This is a great win’: Forever chemicals to be filtered from tap water

A mobile filtration plant will clean up tap-water supplies tainted by a plume of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in the Blue Mountains.

  • Carrie Fellner
Katoomba bistro-style spot Tempus.
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Tempus Katoomba

Sustainability is at the heart of this bolthole.

A spectacular section of the Overcliff-Undercliff track.

Australia’s great new hike is just 90 minutes from Sydney

The beauty of the Grand Cliff Top Walk is that it can be done in bite-size chunks, so hikers can join the walk for as long as they choose.

  • Julie Miller
Police have offered a $500,000 reward for information about the 2018 death of Cecilia Devine.

Singer Cecilia Devine bought warm gloves and a scarf. She was never seen alive again

Police have posted a $500,000 reward for information after a coroner was unable to determine what caused the death of a vivacious musician in the Blue Mountains.

  • Carrie Fellner
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Cecilia Devine

A singer withdrew $700 in Katoomba’s main street. Next, her body washed up in a local dam

A three-kilometre journey holds the key to the 2018 death of Cecilia Devine in the Blue Mountains. The case has left police mystified.

  • Carrie Fellner
A mother has been charged with the attempted murder of her seven-year-old child after her car crashed into a truck at Katoomba this week.

Mum ‘tried to murder’ daughter, 7, in fiery Blue Mountains crash, court hears

A Sydney mother allegedly drove into a truck with her young daughter in the car in an attempt to kill her, detectives claim.

  • Perry Duffin
The man was exploring the Minnehaha Falls in Katoomba with friends.

Man dies after falling from popular Blue Mountains waterfall

The man in his 20s fell to his death while exploring the Minnehaha Falls in Katoomba with friends.

  • Josefine Ganko
Hal Ginges, Robert Trenchard-Smith, and Heather Ginges from the Friends of the Paragon, a local advocacy group in the Blue Mountains.

‘Everyone has a story about it’: The fight to save a legendary Katoomba cafe

Residents have been lobbying the state government to save a cafe that was once home to Hollywood glamour.

  • Julie Power

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