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It’s time for real change at Wests Tigers. The fans deserve nothing less

It’s bizarre that in 2025 any registered club has such a closed-shop system of governance. Members and supporters have simply had enough of the backroom brawling.

  • Darcy Byrne

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Demolition of the old Balmain Leagues Club on Victoria Road

Balmain Leagues site developer makes $97m compensation claim

The claim includes costs linked to a fire that tore through the property in 2022 while the land was occupied by Transport for NSW. 

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Transport Minister Jo Haylen at the soon-to-reopen Balmain West ferry wharf.

This Sydney ferry wharf was shut down 11 years ago. Soon locals will get it back

When the wharf closed in 2013, only 48 people used it daily. But with fresh development in the area, that number will skyrocket.

  • Anthony Segaert
The all-night buses will run along Darling Street, where the council wants to relax rules around noise and trading hours.

Balmain to get 24-hour weekend bus service in timetable shake-up

The arrival of around-the-clock buses on the trainless peninsula coincides with plans to jump-start the area’s nightlife.

  • Megan Gorrey
The Dry Dock’s light-filled dining room.
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The Dry Dock

Comfort-first pub that’s a bit too nice to wear thongs to.

The Balmain properties at the centre of the NSW Supreme Court case are worth an estimated $6.8 million.

Multimillion-dollar Balmain properties at centre of inheritance lawsuit

The family patriarch wanted to leave properties to three of his children. A judge found his widow deserved more.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
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Rebel Wilson has sold her Hollywood house.

Rebel Wilson sells Hollywood mansion she never lived in for $5.6 million

The glamorous home served as a business base for producing social media content and holding meetings and came with personalised touches.

  • Emily Power
NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen and federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek at White Bay Cruise Terminal.

The big switch coming for cruise ships heading to White Bay

Cruise ships berthing in Sydney’s inner west will soon be required to hook up to onshore electricity while in port, following years of community complaints about pollution.

  • Mary Ward
Balmain Leagues Club site.

‘Complete idiocy’: Why the Balmain Leagues Club saga isn’t over yet

Plans to redevelop the languishing Rozelle site have had more stop-starts than the traffic that crawls past it on Victoria Road every day.

  • Megan Gorrey
Mandeep Singh, Zoe Baker, Yvonne Weldon and Darcy Byrne.

Sydney’s battlegrounds: The councils in play at this weekend’s elections

Millions of voters will determine who controls the state’s 128 local councils on Saturday. Here are some of the crucial power struggles to watch.

  • Megan Gorrey

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