Hirsh Modi.

As public school enrolments fall,boys’ schools are bucking the trend

Hirsh Modi is one of hundreds of additional boys headed for single-sex schooling this year.

  • Christopher Harris

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Kitfo and ayip at Gursha Ethiopian.
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Gursha Ethiopian

Warm and welcoming East African social club.

19-year-old Maisam Awaz who drove from Blacktown to Bondi to sell cocaine has been savaged by a magistrate while pleading guilty.

‘You all think you’re such gangsters’:Magistrate slams Bondi dial-a-dealer

The magistrate savaged the western Sydney teenager,saying “we’re sick” of dealers coming to the eastern suburbs with their encrypted phones.

  • Amber Schultz
Blacktown Council

Blacktown City Council:What your candidates said

Blacktown has five wards,with voters in each ward selecting three councillors.

Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre

The unexpected Sydney project in the hunt for a world architecture prize

Of the Australian-designed projects on the shortlist for a prestigious global prize,one is not usually known for architectural greatness.

  • Julie Power
Kristy Howell,left,stands accused of smuggling cocaine into Parklea Prison

Lawyer charged with smuggling drug-filled balloons into Sydney prison

The solicitor allegedly concealed cocaine,methamphetamine,buprenorphine and tobacco inside six balloons.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
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The new buildings defining Blacktown.

‘The forgotten bits of Sydney’:Our newest sports hub is one out of the box

Blacktown’s city architect Bill Tsakalos says Sydney’s west has been neglected by architects. Not any more.

  • Julie Power
It can take Liberty and Rodney Deaman an hour to don armour for jousting.

With nerves of steel,the couple who joust together,stay together

A mutual passion for horses and medieval sports led couple Rodney and Liberty Deaman to the perfect,albeit unusual,shared hobby.

  • Carolyn Webb
The Sydney suburbs with the highest share of distressed listings.

Sydney suburbs with the most distressed property sales

One in eight home sellers in the hardest-hit pocket of Sydney are motivated to get a deal done urgently as interest rates stay high.

  • Elizabeth Redman andAlexandra Middleton
Blacktown mayor Tony Bleasdale died on a flight home from China.

Mayor of Sydney’s biggest council dies on flight home from China

Tony Bleasdale,a Labor Party veteran,was returning from a delegation to cities in South Korea and China when he died. He was 77.

  • Michael Koziol