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Students mourn alleged murder victim as police test for drugs

A Sydney school is grieving the loss of young life for the second time in two years as police investigate whether a 15-year-old boy who died was affected by drugs.

  • Perry Duffin

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More children are leaving school in year 10

Revealed: The schools where more students don’t make it past year 10

Search the full list to see which schools are – and are not – retaining students past year 10.

  • Christopher Harris
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Wollondilly Shire Council: What your candidates said

Voters will choose nine councillors from 46 candidates.

A bridge on the incomplete Maldon to Dombarton railway line.

Why Sydney needs to bring back this abandoned ‘missing train link’ from the ’80s

The government has been urged to resuscitate a long-lost railway line from Port Kembla to south-west Sydney or risk wasting the potential of the city’s new airport.

  • Michael Koziol
Ronald Hodge was allegedly assaulted by two police officers during an arrest at his Picton home.

Webb tested again: two police officers charged with assault of 92-year-old man

Police Commissioner Karen Webb has to deal with more allegations of police officers inappropriately using force after an elderly man was hospitalised with a fractured arm.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Jessica McSweeney
The Twelve Tribes property near Picton includes the historic Razorback Inn building with a $4 million guide.

Twelve Tribes sect in $6 million property sell-off in Picton

Almost 20 years after the Twelve Tribes religious sect settled in Picton, members are having to move out, and their local property holdings are being put up for sale.

  • Lucy Macken
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The driver and sole survivor has been identified as Tyrell Edwards, 18.

Driver in Buxton crash arrested after five teens killed

Eighteen-year-old Tyrell Edwards was driving a Nissan Navara overloaded with five passengers when the ute hit a tree at Buxton on Tuesday night. He was arrested on Wednesday afternoon.

  • Sally Rawsthorne and Jenny Noyes
Scenes from the single-car collision on East Parade, Buxton, south-west of Sydney, that left five people dead and one injured.

Five teenagers dead in ‘horrific’ car crash south-west of Sydney

Police said the driver, an 18-year-old man, sustained non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Liverpool Hospital for mandatory testing.

  • Jamie Berry and Lynette Eyb
Harrison Sproule, 5, was hit by a truck in Picton on Friday night.

'He was amazing': Heartbroken father who accidentally ran over son speaks out

Doug Sproule hopes his message will prevent similar accidents happening to anyone else.

Children taken to hospital after HAZMAT incident at pool

Children taken to hospital after HAZMAT incident at pool

Seven people have been taken to hospital after the incident south-west of Sydney.

  • Rachel Clun

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