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The view from the Rocks towards Sydney Harbour on Saturday morning, as the city braces for a month’s worth of rain in 48 hours.

Flood warnings, more storms as a month’s worth of rain falls on Sydney

Emergency services are urging Sydneysiders to avoid unnecessary travel after a person was rescued from floodwaters overnight and forecasters warn there’s more rain to come.

  • Angus Thomson

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National Parks and Wildlife Service ecologists have carried out the biggest ever survey of flora and fauna in Royal National Park, Heathcote National Park and Garawarra State Conservation Area.

Royal National Park a haven for native species, environmental stocktake shows

The biggest ecological survey to date for Australia’s oldest national park and adjoining areas found previously unseen mammal species.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
In Royal National Park, 50km south of Sydney, the heritage-protected shacks of Era Beach are accessible only by a 2km trail. Meet owners preserving Australian history.
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Heritage shacks of Era Beach: Preserving history in the Royal National Park

In Royal National Park, 50km south of Sydney, the heritage-protected shacks of Era Beach are accessible only by a 2km trail. Meet owners preserving Australian history.

Aerial view of shack sat Era in the Royal National Park. Owners of the historic shacks which were built in the 1930s, 40s,and 50s are campaigning for another lease extension for their properties. 27 April 2024 Photo: Janie Barrett

Ray of hope for beach shack owners in the Royal National Park

The beach communities at Little Garie, Era and Burning Palms in Australia’s oldest national park are heritage listed. Their licences expire in March 2027, and the government is yet to decide what happens after that.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Daniel Hart says he felt like an “idiot” when he had to be rescued after taking a wrong turn on a popular coastal walk.

‘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.

  • Josefine Ganko
Delphi the platypus having a check-up before being released back into the Hacking River in the Royal National Park on Saturday night.

‘Words can’t describe’: Puggle magic in Royal National Park after 50 years

Ten platypuses were released into Australia’s oldest national park, just south of Sydney, last May. The animals are thriving and at least one puggle was born last spring.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Sydney's Coastal Track, Royal National Park. Photo credit: Annie Dang

Police focus on national park as search for slain couple’s bodies expands

The Royal National Park in Sydney’s south is now at the centre of a police operation to locate the bodies of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Clare Sibthorpe
The plane landed safely on Garie Beach.

Light plane makes emergency landing on beach south of Sydney

Garie Beach is one of Sydney’s most isolated stretches of sand due to the closure of an access road.

  • Anthony Segaert
Volunteers on board Marine Rescue vessel Botany Port Hacking 30 searching for a missing rock fisher.

Search to resume for fisherman missing in Royal National Park

It is feared the 71-year-old man, who left his home in Dundas on Friday morning to go fishing in the national park, was swept off the rocks.

  • Olivia Ireland
Port Authority of New South Wales CEO Captain Philip Holliday (left) with the crew of Engage Marine following the MV Portland Bay rescue in July 2022. The Engage Marine crew lost all their crockery in the storm.

You don’t need to travel the world in a maritime career

There are plenty of maritime jobs that involve going home at the end of the day.

  • Sue White

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