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An artist’s impression of the new Marriott hotel and residential tower being constructed at Church Street, Parramatta.

The unlikely location of Sydney’s newest five-star hotel

The Marriott will open a new hotel with a specific clientele in mind.

  • Anthony Segaert

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Opposition leader Peter Dutton in the electorate of Fowler for the Assyrian New Year celebrations at Fairfield Showgrounds.

Churches, schools, film festivals: The millions in election dollars promised to Sydney communities

Labor has splashed the cash in an attempt to hold on to what was once its heartland.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Parramatta’s development as pictured in 2013, 2017 and 2024.

It was once Sydney’s neglected outpost. Then came the developers

It’s hard to overstate just how much Parramatta’s CBD has changed in the past decade. But can it continue its progress? The jury is still out.

  • Mostafa Rachwani, Ellie Busby and Anthony Segaert
Zeke Dumbleton, 10, and his mum, Greta, at Parramatta East Public School.

In five years, Zeke has never had a classroom inside his school’s building

Parramatta East Public School, like many in the region, has been over its student cap for years, but now new funding will bring its classes out of demountables.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
KongQuest Parkour helped to open the new park.

Sydney has a new playground. But it’s not for little kids

A once-dead space has been transformed with the goal of getting teens off their phones.

  • Ellie Busby
NSW Police officer Brendan Oxford played rugby with the police league the week after the hearing for his 11 domestic-violence related offences. Taken April 3.

Sydney cop fronts up for police rugby league team days after domestic violence hearing

Brendan Oxford has been charged with multiple offences including domestic violence assault, stalking and accessing restricted data.

  • Amber Schultz
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Western Sydney pleads for PM to rescue $270m theatre revamp

On budget eve, lobbying is under way for the government to cough up $50m so plans for a 1500-seat Broadway-style lyric theatre in Parramatta can get back on track.

  • Linda Morris
The NSW government has released an indicative masterplan to rezone the Parramatta North precinct. 

There are plans to build 2500 homes in Parramatta. The council wants more offices

More homes or more offices? Plans to redevelop Parramatta North have riled heritage advocates, a Labor MP and, most recently, the local council.

  • Megan Gorrey
An alleged “claims farmer” accused of coaching people to file fake sex abuse claims with the government.

‘Majority suspect’: Cops probe $1b fake sex abuse claims

Police say a crime syndicate coached former young offenders, inmates and school students. A third of prisoners at one NSW jail have submitted claims.

  • Perry Duffin
A render of the four bedroom apartment and its outdoor entertainment area and kitchen in the Glade block of the Sanctuary Development by Sekisui House developers at Wentworth Point.

The upside and downside to this $3.2m Sydney apartment

Infrastructure lags well behind development in Wentworth Point, but the riverside suburb does have one thing going for it.

  • Julie Power

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