The Latest Breaking News from Western Sydney

Global warming has led to higher summer temperatures across Sydney over the past 30 years. However, our data analysis shows very hot summer days are becoming much more common in Western Sydney than in coastal Sydney. These hotter summers are also getting longer.

Labor can, in part, thank Sydney's west for its surge to form majority government for the first time in 12 years, after reclaiming several seats in the area.

The Centre for Western Sydney is urging Liberal and Labor candidates not to treat seats in the region as an "electoral battleground".

Struggling to keep track of what the major parties promised to do during the NSW election campaign? Here's a wrap up of the big-ticket items ahead of today's vote.

The new preschools, 97 to be built in Western Sydney, are for the rollout of the free, universal pre-kindergarten year for all four-and five-year-olds, which is set to be in place by 2030.

Both major parties need to do more to help with the current skills shortage, especially among young unemployed people in Western Sydney, the small business peak body says.

The NSW premier and Opposition leader will go toe-to-toe in a debate on issues critical to Western Sydney, as the state's election draws closer.

The premier and the man who wants his job both insist they are the best qualified to handle the NSW budget in a pitch to voters in Sydney's west.

New South Wales Labor says it will prioritise Metro links in north-west and south-west Sydney if elected, but won't guarantee other projects announced by the Coalition.