The Sydney beachside enclave where home insurance premiums have doubled in five years
Building insurance

The Sydney beachside enclave where home insurance premiums have doubled in five years

The accelerating risk of climate disasters including floods,bushfires and storms means Sydneysiders in some parts of the city are paying over three times more for home insurance than others.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
The ATC will take plan to members to sell Rosehill Racecourse to the government.
Property development

Multibillion-dollar hitch casts doubt over the ‘mini-city’ of 25,000 homes

  • byAlexandra Smith andMichael McGowan
Justice Michael Lee.
CBD

Justice Michael Lee attends disgraced ex-judge Dyson Heydon’s book launch

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends
Development

Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends

  • byAnthony Segaert
Prominent Sydney law firm target of cyberattack,massive data breach
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Crime

Prominent Sydney law firm target of cyberattack,massive data breach

  • byPerry Duffin

Transport

A worker walks through one of the twin tunnels under Rosehill Racecourse near Parramatta.
Sydney Metro

Cost blowout risk hangs over Sydney’s largest metro rail project

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
Commuters wait in a snaking line for B-line buses to the northern beaches at Wynyard station.
Public transport

Fleet of new buses to be ordered for Sydney’s north after commuter hell

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
The much-maligned carpark’s days could be numbered.
City life

Every attempt to fix Sydney’s ugliest building has failed. Might this plan just work?

  • byAnthony Segaert
The analysis is dated September 2023 and is among internal documents released under freedom of information laws.
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Roads

Revealed:The $95 billion shock hidden in Sydney toll road proposal

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
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Crime&Courts

Human remains have been found at a property in Glenorie,with a number of people now in custody.
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Crime

Missing persons probe unearths remains buried in Sydney paddock

  • byRiley Walter,Sally Rawsthorne,Perry Duffin andAmber Schultz
Police suspect Sayit Erhan Akca was involved in orchestrating a caravan bomb plot. He is pictured with his wife,Georgia,who is not accused of wrongdoing.
Antisemitism

Suspected caravan bomb plotter is ‘drug smuggler who fled Australia’

  • byPerry Duffin andSally Rawsthorne
Justice Michael Lee.
CBD

Justice Michael Lee attends disgraced ex-judge Dyson Heydon’s book launch

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook
Investigation
Sex,sleaze and hospitality

From Bondi’s Icebergs to Melbourne fine dining:Son of Terzini empire accused of sexual attacks and violence

  • byClare Sibthorpe andEryk Bagshaw

Local council

The former dive sites for the WestConnex on Parramatta Road will eventually be turned into housing.
Development

Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends

  • byAnthony Segaert
Commuters wait in a snaking line for B-line buses to the northern beaches at Wynyard station.
Public transport

Fleet of new buses to be ordered for Sydney’s north after commuter hell

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
Ku-ring-gai Council is in disarray after reinstating its general manager less than 24 hours after his contract was terminated.
Sydney councils

After a $20,000 retreat,north shore councillors to vote on spending audit

  • byNick Newling
Rich Lister property developer and wellness entrepreneur Tim Gurner tapes his mouth shut at night to improve his health.
CBD

Tim Gurner keeps making everyone mad

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andTom Cowie
Mayor Sue Heins and state MP James Griffin at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Northern Beaches Council’s Freshwater Beach Playground,before it was abruptly shut.
City life

This northern beaches playground opened in November. So why has it spent three months shut?

  • byAnthony Segaert
Workers in the new $11 billion metro rail line to Western Sydney Airport.
Sydney Metro

These Sydney metro rail extensions have been pushed out to the 2040s – if they go ahead

  • byMatt O'Sullivan andMichael McGowan
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City life

SMH NEWS. Morning sunrise,hot weather,Clovelly March 14,2025. Photo:Max Mason-Hubers
Weather

Sydney set to swelter as summer stretches on

Temperatures will climb almost 10 degrees above average in Sydney this weekend before a southerly buster-like cool change sweeps through the city.

  • byRiley Walter
The former dive sites for the WestConnex on Parramatta Road will eventually be turned into housing.
Development

Everyone agrees these vacant lots should become units. But public housing? That depends

Former WestConnex tunnelling sites will be upzoned for units,but Greens and Labor councillors have clashed over how much should be devoted to public housing.

  • byAnthony Segaert
Commuters wait in a snaking line for B-line buses to the northern beaches at Wynyard station.
Public transport

Fleet of new buses to be ordered for Sydney’s north after commuter hell

  • byMatt O'Sullivan
Sydney’s most advantaged suburbs
City life

Sydney’s most advantaged suburb? It’s not where you think

  • byMatt Wade andNigel Gladstone
The much-maligned carpark’s days could be numbered.
City life

Every attempt to fix Sydney’s ugliest building has failed. Might this plan just work?

  • byAnthony Segaert

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