The Latest Breaking News from Sydney

A massive project is unfolding in Sydney’s Western Parkland region. The building of a new city from the ground up is central to an infrastructure-led restructuring of metropolitan Sydney. The catalysts are the Western Sydney City Deal and the Western Sydney Airport being built alongside the new Bradfield City.

It seems hardly a day goes by without another report of a cyber crime incident. With Medibank still fresh in our minds, the latest attack is on a Sydney-based cancer treatment facility, Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre in Westmead Hospital.

The New South Wales government is prioritising changes to the rental bond system and secret bidding as parliament resumes this week, but that is not the relief many tenants are desperate for.

AFL great Lance Franklin became the latest star player to be booed by opposition fans, leaving Sydney coach John Longmire bemused and Collingwood counterpart Craig McRae nonplussed.

Five goals to Brody Mihocek lead Collingwood to victory over Sydney, while St Kilda take care of North Melbourne and Port Adelaide hang on to a five-point win over Essendon.

A hive of creativity from studios on a Hunter Valley property.

In Sydney, a hidden group of gardeners tend backyards brimming with cactus varieties, consuming the produce. I tracked them down to try and understand the allure – and danger – of psychoactive plants, writes Prudence Gibson.

Charlie Bradley, a 28-year-old Sydney real estate agent, died a few hours after drinking at a beach club in Canggu. Now that his body is on its way home, his family hope an autopsy may finally reveal some answers as to his final moments.

"The juice just wasn’t worth the squeeze anymore.”

The last time I saw Gabrielle Carey, who died this week, aged 64, was a couple of weeks ago in Sydney. I’d texted that I was coming to Sydney for the weekend, and she texted back to say she was meeting “a couple of Joyceans” for a morning walk in…

A decision not to light up the sails of the Sydney Opera House to mark the coronation of King Charles was a cost saving measure, a spokesperson for the state government of New South Wales said on Saturday.