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Public transport

Trains cancelled,hour-long delays as industrial action continues

People travelling to the airport have been urged to plan ahead as industrial action cripples the rail network.

byMegan Gorrey

The Opera House displays poppies on the sails in recognition of Remembrance Day.

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City life

Proposed cap on lighting of Opera House sails abandoned

byLinda Morris

Swimmers have been urged to stay between the red and yellow flags.

Water safety

Teenage lifesavers’ desperate attempt to save drowning woman

byBen Cubby

Fortis’ proposed development in Elizabeth Bay. The site has frontages on Onslow and Billyard Avenues.

Courts

‘You can’t always get what you want’:Court knocks back controversial Elizabeth Bay apartment block

byMichaela Whitbourn

A bus driver has died and 13 passengers were taken to hospital after a crash on the Hume Highway on Saturday morning.

Traffic incident

‘We are heartbroken’:Bus driver mourned after fatal Hume Highway crash

bySarah McPhee

Politics

University

The radical proposal that could end Sydney Uni’s proud history of rebellion

A new rule to enforce a more civil discourse on campus has been backed by the university. It’s caused alarm within.

byDaniella White

Commuters face renewed major disruption.

Public transport

Sydney trains industrial action as it happened:NSW government to lodge bid to stop RTBU action;Haylen says impact to New Years Eve ‘intolerable’

The RTBU has won the right to resume industrial action across Sydney’s train network. Follow here for live updates.

byPenry Buckley

State Parliament

‘Drugs are illegal’:Pill-testing trial will not stop arrests at festivals

byMichael McGowan

Pill testing will be allowed at about a dozen NSW music festivals from 2025 in a major trial of the service.

Drug reform

Pill testing to go ahead at NSW summer music festivals

byMichael McGowan

NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey and NSW Finance Minister Courtney Houssos address media after delivering the state’s budget update.

NSW budget

Trump warning as NSW budget slides $1.3 billion further into red

byMax Maddison andMichael McGowan

Crime&Courts

Courts

‘You can’t always get what you want’:Court knocks back controversial Elizabeth Bay apartment block

byMichaela Whitbourn

Arnima Hayat was murdered by her husband Meraj Zafar.

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Courts

Mother wails as daughter’s killer jailed over acid bath murder

bySarah McPhee

Detectives from Strike Force Mylor arrest Mohommed Farhat at Sydney Airport on Monday,November 25.

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Crime

Man ‘targeted Jewish people’ in Sydney’s east,police say

byPerry Duffin

Alan Jones arrives at court on Wednesday.

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Jones investigation

Disturbing details of new Alan Jones allegations revealed after chaotic court hearing

byKate McClymont andSarah McPhee

Alan Jones arrives at court in his white BMW.

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Jones investigation

For years,Jones has been surrounded by acolytes. In court,he is alone

byJacqueline Maley

Former broadcaster Alan Jones leaves Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court.

Jones investigation

Alan Jones breaks silence after entering not guilty plea

byJessica McSweeney

Education

Kambala Head of English Greta Beaumont with HSC students Evangeline Chu,Sasha Van Onselen,Ansalee Desai,Gabriella Gamerov,Jessica Allen-Waters,Stephanie Harvey-Fros and Sophie Regan.

HSC

The top schools for HSC English revealed

byChristopher Harris andNigel Gladstone

HSC

Meet every student who got 99.95 in this year’s HSC

byLucy Carroll,Mary Ward andRicky Blank

HSC

The schools that surged up the HSC rankings – one by 220 places

byLucy Carroll

Health

Index composite image for story on half of psychiatrists in NSW tendering their resignations.

Hospitals in crisis

Doctors’ mass resignation deepens NSW government’s worker woes

byKate Aubusson andAngus Thomson