Ambulance
Revealed: How our hospitals fail half their seriously ill patients
Fewer people are visiting NSW emergency departments with non-urgent conditions, but emergency staff are overwhelmed with a record number of seriously ill patients.
- by Angus Thomson
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Boy, 2, critical after being pulled from Sydney public pool
The toddler has been rushed to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
- by Clare Sibthorpe
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Courts
‘I went into labour as a widow’: Wife’s heartbreaking testimony about killing of paramedic
Steven Tougher’s wife sobbed as she recounted giving birth to the couple’s child in the weeks after his stabbing death outside a Sydney McDonald’s.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Tragedy
‘Nothing could be done’: Three dead after planes collide in south-west Sydney crash
Two light planes have collided near The Oaks, in the city’s outer south-west.
- by Frances Howe and Mary Ward
The Sydney suburbs where patients wait the longest for an ambulance revealed
Ambulances and emergency departments are under more pressure than ever, data released on Wednesday reveals. See how your suburb stacks up.
- by Angus Thomson
‘Toughest person we know’: Surfer’s leg washes up on beach after shark attack
Kai McKenzie is in a stable condition after marathon surgery following the encounter at Port Macquarie.
- by Angus Thomson
Dog leash used to save the life of ‘courageous’ surfer bitten by a shark
An off-duty police officer has been credited with saving the life of a surfer who lost his right leg after being bitten by a shark at Port Macquarie.
- by Angus Thomson
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Emergency services
We rely on them to keep Sydney running. But they can barely afford to live here
The five Sydney suburbs that are home to the most police officers are, on average, 45 kilometres from the CBD. For solicitors, the average is less than four kilometres.
- by Matt Wade and Craig Butt
Man in critical condition after drowning at remote Ku-ring-gai beach
Rescuers had to use a boat to retrieve the man from the beach, which can only be accessed by a steep bushland track.
- by Carrie Fellner
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Tragedy
‘We just watched it blow up’: Whalan victim was in kitchen when home exploded
Mhey Yumol Jasmin was in the kitchen of her mother’s unit when the building exploded. Police found her body on Monday morning.
- by Jessica McSweeney
‘You’re an idiot’: Man spends night on cliff ledge after wrong turn on popular coastal walk
Despite falling into the ocean, being washed onto rocks and spending the night on a cliff ledge, a bushwalker in Royal National Park was lucky to walk away largely unscathed.
- by Josefine Ganko
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