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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

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An artist’s impression of proposed accelerated development in Macquarie Park.

I’m a proud YIMBY mayor, but I can’t say yes to this shocking plan

I’m a passionate advocate of both plentiful and affordable housing, but I’m alarmed by what the Minns government has in mind for my LGA.

  • Trenton Brown
44 Fawcett Street, Ryde

Four families bid for $2.2m Sydney home with playground off the backyard

In a battle of the parents, a family upsizing from a unit won the keys to a cottage with a back gate that opened directly to a large playground.

  • Carmen Forward
Ryde Council

City of Ryde Council: What your candidates said

Voters will elect a mayor as well as councillors across three wards.

The T.G. Millner Field is now closed and bookings have been cancelled.

‘Nothing dictatorial about it’: Field closed in fresh clash over 132 townhouses in rugby heartland

T.G. Millner sports fields at Marsfield will cease to operate as a community asset after a bid by Ryde Council to rezone it as open space left the owners furious.

  • Chris O'Keefe
Police officers at the Marsfield home on Thursday.

Bodies of mother and teenage daughter found in Sydney home

Police were called to the home in Sydney’s north-west on Thursday morning, responding to reports of a concern for welfare.

  • Clare Sibthorpe and Anthony Segaert
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While some get cocky over school lunches.

The state government has not allowed Ryde Council to compulsorily acquire T.G. Millner Field.

Council wanted to save this field from being turned into townhouses. It just lost

T.G. Millner Field in Sydney’s northern suburbs was the centre of a years-long campaign for green space in the area.

  • Anthony Segaert
The Ryde Central site on Wednesday.

‘Rats in the camp’: Fury as mayor replaced amid fight over $20 million crater

Liberals have been accused of abusing the system by installing a new mayor of Ryde overnight, ahead of elections in September.

  • Michael Koziol
Ian and Margaret Mears, both 82, downsized to Meadowbank from the Central Coast and love the area.

Meadowbank’s density alarmed north shore residents, but locals say ‘it’s lovely’

Ku-ring-gai Council used images of Meadowbank to warn residents about additional housing density. But when the mayor went there, he liked what he found.

  • Michael Koziol

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