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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

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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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The light rail winds through the Parramatta CBD.

The Herald is coming to Parramatta

The Parramatta region is booming and the potential for the Herald and our journalism is huge.

  • Bevan Shields
An artist’s impression of the proposed Parramatta North rezoning, with Parramatta’s fast-growing CBD in the background.

There’s a plan for 2500 new homes in Parramatta. Heritage advocates say it can wait

Heritage advocates want to wait four more years to finalise plans. Tasked with fixing the housing crisis, the state government says that doesn’t make sense.

  • Megan Gorrey
Putney Beach which is is opening as a swim site on Parramatta River this coming weekened. Photographed in Sydney on January 13, 2025. Photo: Dominic Lorrimer .

First Pondi, now Panly: The new Sydney beach seven years in the making

The beach in Sydney’s north could mark a turning point for more swimming spots to open across the city – but how safe is it to swim in the water?

  • Cindy Yin
Chris Minns, Premier of New South Wales and Jo Haylen, Minister for Transport, will welcome the latest Australian-made Parramatta River Class ferry, the Martin Green.

Sydney’s newest ferry sails into harbour weeks before passengers hop on

Electricity could become the future of ferry travel in Sydney, as the fourth vessel in the new seven-strong ferry fleet prepares to open to commuters.

  • Cindy Yin

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