Body found in Blue Mountains following search for St Ives man
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Body found in Blue Mountains following search for St Ives man

The 39-year-old man was canyoning with a group on Sunday before going missing in the Wollangambe River at Mount Wilson.

  • byOlivia Ireland

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‘We wouldn’t walk because it was too hot’:Bushwalkers faced heat,overgrown tracks

‘We wouldn’t walk because it was too hot’:Bushwalkers faced heat,overgrown tracks

Two bushwalkers who were found alive in the Blue Mountains on Tuesday morning say their plans were curtailed due to overgrown walking tracks and hot weather.

  • bySarah Keoghan
Missing bushwalkers in Blue Mountains make contact with police

Missing bushwalkers in Blue Mountains make contact with police

The two men,aged 69 and 81,set off for the bushwalk on Wednesday.

  • bySarah Keoghan andOlivia Ireland
Historic Zig Zag Railway on cusp of reopening before winter

Historic Zig Zag Railway on cusp of reopening before winter

The Blue Mountains tourism site has been closed since 2012 after bushfires,floods and vandalism caused significant damage.

  • byOlivia Ireland
‘Disgraceful’:Federal minister says NSW cabinet signed off on bushfire grants to Coalition seats

‘Disgraceful’:Federal minister says NSW cabinet signed off on bushfire grants to Coalition seats

Federal emergency management minister Murray Watt says the prioritisation of bushfire grants to Coalition seats in NSW was a decision of state cabinet.

  • byAlexandra Smith,Lucy Cormack andPaul Sakkal
Cynical politics left fire victims abandoned. Never again
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Bushfires

Cynical politics left fire victims abandoned. Never again

In the Blue Mountains,we felt utterly abandoned to learn that funds for bushfire recovery were skewed to Coalition seats.

  • bySerena Joyner
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Gobsmacked by Barilaro’s behaviour? Join the club
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Gobsmacked by Barilaro’s behaviour? Join the club

Good old “Pork Barilaro”,the gift that keeps giving to NSW Labor.

ICAC investigation can show if grants pork-barrelling is corruption

ICAC investigation can show if grants pork-barrelling is corruption

MPs must learn that they cannot treat taxpayer funds allocated for the public good as a personal election war chest.

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Summer in Sydney means ... monorail,waterfalls and pistachio ice-cream

Summer in Sydney means ... monorail,waterfalls and pistachio ice-cream

Editorial assistant Abby Seaman knows Penrith can literally be the hottest place on Earth.

  • byAbby Seaman
Man charged with Dannielle Finlay-Jones’ murder after clifftop stand-off

Man charged with Dannielle Finlay-Jones’ murder after clifftop stand-off

Ashley Gaddie,wanted over the death of Dannielle Finlay-Jones,has been charged after a 12-hour police operation in the Blue Mountains.

  • byJenny Noyes andSally Rawsthorne
Conflict of interest derails plans for high-speed trains
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Conflict of interest derails plans for high-speed trains

There might be a reason that Sydney Airport board member Sir David Higgins is speaking out against high-speed rail.