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.
City life

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.

  • byAnthony Segaert
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Opinion
Letters

Cometh the election hour,cometh the teals

Intermittent heavy rainfall from Cyclone Alfred made for wet work for the employees of Brads Butchery in Lismore as they evacuated their workplace.
Extreme weather

Northern NSW hunkers down as Cyclone Alfred inches closer

  • byKayla Olaya
A QantasLink Dash-8 similar to the aircraft involved in the serious incident at Mildura Airport.
Aviation

Qantas plane hits lights after pilots mistake runway’s centre line

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
Big wave spectators almost get washed off the Brunswick Heads rockwall as massive swell and destructive winds hammer the NSW North East as Cyclone Alfred gets closer.
Extreme weather

Daredevils brave wild seas as Cyclone Alfred circles toward battered coast

  • byAngus Dalton
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Politics

Local Government Minister Ron Hoenig,Health Minister Ryan Park and Attorney-General Michael Daley.
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Political expenses

Revealed:The NSW ministers who used drivers for family holidays

Both sides of the political divide will be trying to out-do each other over use of taxpayer-funded chauffeurs.

  • byMichael McGowan,Max Maddison andAlexandra Smith
Punters sunk $266.5 million into Victoria’s gaming machines last month.
Editorial
Poker machines

Why Labor is justified in breaking this election promise on poker machines

The statewide introduction of a cashless gaming card must be the guiding light of reform.

  • The Herald's View
Scott Yung,then the Liberal candidate for the state seat of Kogarah,sitting next to John Howard during a fundraiser at the Blue Angel restaurant.
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Australia votes

The Liberal candidate,the mysterious $60,000 and the deleted podcast

  • byMax Maddison
Opinion
Planning

We’re flying blind,now they’ve quietly buried our vital Six Cities blueprint

  • byEamon Waterford
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey fronted budget estimates on Wednesday.
Poker machines

The key election promise NSW Labor has walked away from

  • byMichael McGowan

Crime&Courts

A picture of the man wanted after two women,aged in their 80s,were sexually attacked during a string of break-ins in Merrylands,in Sydney.
Crime

Manhunt after women sexually attacked by knife-wielding intruder

  • byPerry Duffin
A young boy filmed from the backseat of a car during a street race in Sydney’s south before the vehicle,driven by Jimmy Martin Brito,left the road and hit a tree,killing the boy and his brother.
Courts

Phone videos captured boys’ squeals before street race ended in ‘utter destruction’

  • bySarah McPhee
A young boy filmed from the backseat of a car during a street race in Sydney's south before the vehicle,driven by Jimmy Martin Brito,left the road and hit a tree,killing the boy and his brother. SOURCE:NSW District Court
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Crime

Phone captured street race moments before deadly crash

A serial rapist from Long Bay fornensic hospital,who attacked a woman while on unsupervised leave,has been greenlit for release even as conditions tighten on forensic patients.
Crime

This serial rapist is earmarked for release,but system doesn’t know when or where he’ll go

  • byPerry Duffin
Sophie-Lee Fullagar,24,died in the crash.
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Courts

Man charged with quadruple murder after car allegedly run off NSW road in ‘targeted attack’

  • bySarah McPhee
Lawyer Zali Burrows and her client Bruce Lehrmann.
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Courts

‘Horror movie’:Bruce Lehrmann’s bid to overturn rape finding

  • byMichaela Whitbourn
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Education

The 2025 SMH School Summit.
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Education

The major NAPLAN change coming to schools

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SMH Schools Summit 2025 as it happened:Prue Car speaks after funding deal,selective schools in the spotlight

  • byNick Newling
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Education

Comprehensive schools carry a disproportionate burden of disadvantage

  • The Herald's View

Health

Intermittent heavy rainfall from Cyclone Alfred made for wet work for the employees of Brads Butchery in Lismore as they evacuated their workplace.
Extreme weather

Northern NSW hunkers down as Cyclone Alfred inches closer

  • byKayla Olaya
Crime

This serial rapist is earmarked for release,but system doesn’t know when or where he’ll go

  • byPerry Duffin
Healthcare

Veterinary surgical equipment found in Sydney cosmetic clinic accused of putting patients at risk

  • byKate Aubusson

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