As it happened:Fire engulfs Surry Hills building;neighbouring residents evacuated

As it happened:Fire engulfs Surry Hills building;neighbouring residents evacuated

A major fire has broken out near Central Station in Sydney. Emergency services are on the scene.

  • byChristopher Harris

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Two children found unconscious in south-west Sydney,one critical

Two children found unconscious in south-west Sydney,one critical

Police have spoken to a 29-year-old woman at the scene after children,aged five and four,were found unconscious in a home in Airds.

  • byOlivia Ireland
Man dies in Cronulla drowning,two others pulled from water

Man dies in Cronulla drowning,two others pulled from water

Emergency services were called to Shelly Beach after a group of swimmers got into difficulty.

  • byBillie Eder
Student missing after falling from Manly cliff,swept out to sea

Student missing after falling from Manly cliff,swept out to sea

Noa Sage,20,is still missing more than 24 hours after he fell seven metres onto rocks at North Head before waves pulled him into the sea.

  • byJames Lemon andAnthony Segaert
Toddler airlifted to hospital after falling 10 metres from balcony in Sydney’s west

Toddler airlifted to hospital after falling 10 metres from balcony in Sydney’s west

The young boy is believed to have climbed onto a chair before falling off an apartment balcony in Mount Druitt.

  • bySarah Keoghan
Two more swimmers die on state’s beaches

Two more swimmers die on state’s beaches

A woman was pulled unconscious from the water at Gordons Bay in the eastern suburbs and a surfer died near Jervis Bay.

  • byBen Cubby
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Two dead in light plane crash south-west of Sydney

Two dead in light plane crash south-west of Sydney

Emergency services were called to reports of a scrub fire in bushland around Appin,south of Campbelltown,before 3pm on Boxing Day.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
Tradie’s belt saves man with severed foot

Tradie’s belt saves man with severed foot

A bystander applied a tourniquet fashioned from a belt to the right leg of a man whose foot was cut off after a car accident in Sydney’s west.

  • byJames Lemon
Skydiver injured after fall through trees

Skydiver injured after fall through trees

Calls for help came in about 2pm on Monday after the 24-year-old man became tangled in trees up to 10 metres above the ground at Wilton,in the Macarthur region.

  • byPhoebe Loomes
‘Something had to be up’:Children in hospital as experiment goes wrong
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‘Something had to be up’:Children in hospital as experiment goes wrong

Two children suffered serious burns and nine others had less serious injuries when winds blew a science experiment onto students at a primary school on Sydney’s northern beaches.

  • bySarah Keoghan,Millie Muroi andMegan Gorrey
Pilot escapes injury after plane crashes into fence,car at Bankstown

Pilot escapes injury after plane crashes into fence,car at Bankstown

Flight tracking software shows the plane had just taken off from Bankstown Airport when it completed a left-hand loop,landing shortly afterwards.

  • byGeorgina Mitchell