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Botany Aquatic Centre in 2008. The mid-century pool will close on April 27 for renovations, reopening in 2027.

With no pool, Sydney councils must ensure generation of swimmers do not miss out

The closures coming across Sydney over the next year will leave some parts of Sydney with no local pool.

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An artist’s impression of how Batemans Bay would look by 2100 under a draft master plan.

The NSW coastal town that could be the ‘next Gold Coast’

Blocks 100 metres tall have been proposed for Batemans Bay, which also wants to become a “bustling town centre”.

  • Jessica McSweeney
SUNHERALD- Crowds of people inundated the streets of Byron Bay after Splendour in the Grass festival cancelled its first day due to bad weather. People waited in long queues to enter venues. Photo shows local band The Seeding entertaining crowds on the streets. The buskers played for eight hours to keep the swelling crowd amused.Friday July 22nd Photo by Natalie Grono

The plan to protect NSW’s most famous coastal enclave from whining neighbours

Pubs in the tourist mecca of Byron Bay have hosted Nirvana and The White Stripes. The local council wants to shield them from unreasonable noise complaints.

  • Megan Gorrey
John Moores and Paul Paynter were picked to run as Liberals for in the council elections until a major administrative mistake stopped them.

NSW Liberals launch class action over botched council nominations

Two Liberal party members who missed out on contesting last year’s council elections are behind a class action suing the party. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Korea.

This Sydney council was about to spend $70,000 on a trip to Korea. Until it changed its mind

The mayor, councillors and other staff are set to attend a three-day festival, but at a lower cost than first flagged.

  • Anthony Segaert
Central Coast seawall

‘People have been in tears’: How the Central Coast seawall fight turned ugly

Accusations of bullying and misinformation have been made as both sides say their opponents are running scare campaigns.

  • Nick Newling
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Mayor Sue Heins and state MP James Griffin at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Northern Beaches Council’s Freshwater Beach Playground, before it was abruptly shut.

This northern beaches playground opened in November. So why has it spent three months shut?

The $1.05 million Freshwater Beach Playground was opened with great fanfare last year – but it abruptly closed after a piece of equipment broke, injuring a child.

  • Anthony Segaert
A documentary directed and produced by award-winning local filmmaker Bruce Walters about a campaign to save two trees in Ruskin Rowe, Avalon.

The smashed Mercedes and a community fight over two trees

Residents have put “a stake in the ground” to save two towering 60-year-old gums in a majestic tree-lined street on Sydney’s northern beaches.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Ratepayers urged the council to cut spending, sell off assets, or peddle the naming rights to North Sydney Oval, rather than slugging them with a rates rise.

‘Sack them all’: North Sydney councillors vote for 87 per cent rate rise at rowdy meeting

A hostile crowd of protesters shouted “shame” and “liar” as councillors debated the proposed rates rise at a meeting on Monday night.

  • Megan Gorrey
Former Liberal councillors Karina Page, Stuart Sprott and Georgia Ryburn.

‘There’s no voice of reason’: Northern Beaches’ lost Libs blame party failure for rate hike

A former Northern Beaches Liberal councillor warns the proposed 40 per cent rate rise is just the beginning of contentious changes.

  • Nick Newling

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