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Wentworth Falls from Fletchers Lookout.

I took on the Blue Mountains’ new cliff walk, unfit and underprepared

Three hundred metres in, I’m already bleeding. My tentative return to multi-day hiking hasn’t started well.

  • Shaney Hudson

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St Columba’s Grace Costigan came first in English extension 2.

Grace topped English in the HSC. This is what she wrote

Inspired by her Blue Mountains surroundings, HSC English dux Grace Costigan submitted a short fiction. Read two short extracts here.

  • Grace Costigan
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
Penrith Regional Gallery director Toby Chapman shot this footage of what he says could be the elusive Penrith Panther.

‘Myths don’t come from nowhere’: Why the Penrith Panther is getting its own show

Real or not, the elusive beast has its claws deep into the collective psyche of the western city. Art gallery director Toby Chapman is no exception.

  • Nick Galvin
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
Firefighters battle the petrol tanker crash at Medlow Bath in 1992.

New ‘forever chemical’ tests zero in on contamination source

Independent tests have linked PFAS contamination in the Blue Mountains to the site of a 1992 petrol tanker crash.

  • Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner
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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
PFAS

Australia will dramatically cut ‘forever chemicals’ in tap water – but it will mean a big clean-up

The new thresholds are likely to force the clean-up of tap water supplied to hundreds of thousands of people across the country.

  • Carrie Fellner
Kallista Mutten with daughter Charlise: “She believed in me and I miss her so much.”

‘I had the whole country against me’: Mother breaks silence over daughter’s murder

Kallista Mutten admits to making dreadful decisions but has told 60 Minutes she does not deserve the vitriol she faced over the death of her daughter, Charlise.

  • Dimity Clancey and Anne Worthington
Water scientist Ian Wright takes a water sample near Lake Medlow in the Blue Mountains.

Dramatic turnaround as state backs widespread water testing for forever chemicals

Hours after the Herald published revelations of high levels of “forever chemicals” at a dam this week, NSW Health moved to get all water utilities to screen for PFAS.

  • Ben Cubby and Carrie Fellner

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