A pensioner was moments from death as his car was swallowed by floodwater - until someone heard his cries in the darkness.
About 180 firefighters and 46 fire trucks have been battling twin fires at opposite ends of Sydney on Friday morning.
Five-year-old Alannah Sobolewski died and her mother was seriously injured after they were hit by a van at a zebra crossing in Sydney’s north-west on Wednesday night.
A worker has died after falling from the roof of a building at a construction site in Liverpool after midday on Thursday.
A woman has died after she was pulled unconscious from the water at a marina on Sydney Harbour.
Emergency services crews were called to Botany Road in Alexandria following reports a child had plunged from the building.
Police are appealing for information from the community after three men reported seeing a dead baby in a plastic bag in the ocean.
The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a severe heatwave to set in over Friday to Sunday with extreme conditions expected in some areas along the NSW coast.
Four ambulances and a helicopter responded to the scene just before 2pm on Tuesday.
Sydney mostly dodged a second day of storms,with the worst of the instability buffeting regions to the city's south and areas further up the coast.
Police said the man in his 20s was pulled from the water but died at the scene.