Lithgow
Infamous Sydney child killer stabbed to death in jail
Aymen Terkmani was serving a lengthy sentence for an attack deemed “brutal and horrific” by the judge, with injuries “too numerous to list and too gruesome to describe”.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Sally Rawsthorne
Latest
Man who allegedly used hidden cameras to film women to remain behind bars
Police allege a man set up hidden cameras in a bedroom at a Lithgow home to film women without their consent during intimate acts.
- by Nigel Gladstone
Opinion
Nuclear energy
Thank you, Mr Dutton. With Lithgow going nuclear, the Shamrocks are daring to dream
The old Lithgow Shamrocks rugby league players are prepared, pro bono, to get involved. One has already googled “how to build a nuclear power plant”.
- by 'Rampaging' Roy Slaven
The Coalition is gambling on nuclear. Towns such as Lithgow are ground zero
Lithgow once had a brewery, picture palace and six pubs. Now it has dozens of empty shopfronts.
- by Eryk Bagshaw and Max Maddison
The Blue Mountains’ historic train is steaming again
After being mothballed for 11 years, the return of the historic Zig Zag Railway last year has been met with packed carriages and waving fans.
- by Caroline Gladstone
Updated
Tragedy
Family pay tribute to ‘loving and devoted father’ after Lithgow crash
Two people died and 15 were injured in the horror crash attended by more than 80 emergency personnel.
- by Angus Thomson and Amber Schultz
Updated
Tragedy
Two dead, one child critical after horror crash involving 21 people west of Sydney
More than 80 emergency personnel responded to what police have described as a “confronting” scene after five vehicles collided on a highway outside Lithgow.
- by Anthony Segaert
Man who shot himself in siege linked to Sovereign Citizen movement, police suspect
A man is dead in a suspected suicide following a siege west of the Blue Mountains where shots were fired at heavily armed police.
- by Perry Duffin
Historic Zig Zag Railway on cusp of reopening before winter
The Blue Mountains tourism site has been closed since 2012 after bushfires, floods and vandalism caused significant damage.
- by Olivia Ireland
Broken gas pipeline leaves 20,000 people without heating, cooking
Gas supplies to Lithgow, Oberon and other towns west of the Blue Mountains are likely to be out for a month.
- by Ben Cubby
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