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Nine Beaches from Manly to North Narrabeen have been closed due to potentially hazardous ball-shaped debris found washed up along shores.

Two Sydney beaches remain closed after discovery of mystery debris balls

A number of northern beaches were closed after ball-shaped debris was found in the sand, following similar balls being discovered on eastern suburbs beaches last year.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Josefine Ganko

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Developer Landmark Group Australia has approval for a six-storey development, but wants to make it bigger.

Battle over housing heights arrives in the northern beaches

A Sydney council is frustrated by a developer’s plans to use state government incentives to increase the size of a sprawling apartment block.

  • Megan Gorrey
A Bellevue Hill dad bought a $2.9 million four-bedroom Marrickville home for his daughter at auction on Saturday.

Dad buys $2.9m Marrickville house for daughter minutes after first viewing

The Bellevue Hill father inspected the four-bedroom house for the first time just half an hour before the auction on Saturday morning. The guide was $2.2 million.

  • Kristy Johnson
Northern Beaches Council

Northern Beaches Council: What your candidates said

There are 42 candidates up for election - none of them are endorsed by the Liberal Party after its failure to nominate in time.

Police are investigating after two teenagers were caught in the act drawing a large swastika on a toilet block on the northern beaches.

Teenager arrested after swastika drawn on Sydney toilet block

Two boys were filmed in Sydney’s northern beaches drawing the offensive symbol before trying to flee the scene.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
Police arrest a man, believed to be aged 37, at a block of units in Dee Why.

Police speak to man after body found on Sydney’s northern beaches

The man’s body was discovered in a Dee Why car park, with neighbours telling police they saw someone being carried from a unit block before the grim discovery.

  • Perry Duffin
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Horror year on NSW roads.

Junior police officer praised for pulling woman from sinking car

Kiesha McJannet joined the force in June last year, NSW Police said, and freed a 60-year-old woman from her car after it crashed into a Sydney lagoon.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Karey and Ray Payne with twins Sam and Josh who are selling their house in Allambie Heights.

‘A gem for people’: The Sydney suburbs where homes are selling fastest

It typically takes more than four weeks to sell a Sydney home, but some properties across in-demand regions are trading quicker.

  • Kate Burke
The campsite, seen towards the bottom of the drone overhead shot, is between Dee Why Lagoon and the beach.

Homeless camp in million-dollar suburb a ‘safety risk’, says mayor

Recent reports of anti-social behaviour, and a stabbing, has led Northern Beaches Council to plan to end the Dee Why dunes camp.

  • Mary Ward
Sonia Van Duinen has thought a lot about her husband’s state of mind in the five years since his death.

Sonia always comes to the same conclusion. Her husband’s death was avoidable

Gary Van Duinen died after a 13-hour gambling spree. His mother and widow do not believe either of the policies offered at the election would have saved him.

  • Harriet Alexander

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