Housing Minister Rose Jackson has broken her silence four days after the ministerial driver expense scandal was revealed, saying she was too “excited” about her birthday to speak up at the time.
A family-run petrol station in Sydney’s southwest has been left “mortified and disgusted” after vandals cut fuel hoses and scrawled offensive graffiti on its walls.
The devastated father of a motorbike rider allegedly hit and killed by a 14-year-old boy who was driving a stolen vehicle, has tearfully begged the state’s law enforcers to “do more to save lives”.
Two teenagers have been arrested after allegedly using a stolen car to smash into a tobacco store in Lane Cove before leading police on a chase across Sydney’s west.
A new small business strategy released by Labor includes images of American workers, while two-thirds of the report is made up of cover pages, graphics and pictures.
The NRMA is calling on the NSW government to conduct audits of the state’s most dangerous school zones after almost 27,000 speeding fines were handed out in five locations alone.
Criminal lawyers have been warned about preparing bail applications involving ankle monitoring bracelets being tracked by a private firm as the NSW government moves to shift blame for the alleged bail fail crisis.
Transport Minister Jo Haylen has resigned over the use of taxpayer-funded ministerial drivers to chauffeur her to multiple private events including winery trips, private country lunches and weekend kids’ sports.
Police have released images of a prison escapee strolling around a busy shopping area, as a manhunt ramps up almost a week after he fled a South Coast jail.
It was always going to end like this. On day one of the chauffeur car scandal, Chris Minns could have asked Jo Haylen to stand aside. Or she could have offered. Instead, they left the government deeply wounded, writes Linda Silmalis.
The state government has raked in more than $20m in school zone speeding fines in just six months – with some drivers copping fines more than $3000. See the list of worst locations.
A long-running Sydney community club has revealed a bold move to host more big events as it battles with a spike in noise complaints from ‘NIMBY’ locals.
As Jo Haylen finally bowed to the inevitable and quit as Transport minister, she refused to take questions from the media. Here is what she did have to say.
A developer’s vision to build six apartment blocks with affordable and private dwellings in Sydney’s west has stirred up objections from locals and a council fearing it would create “undesirable” and “segregated” areas.
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