The Latest Breaking News from Hawkesbury

Three-year-old colt Magic, a close second to Best Of Bordeaux in the group 2 Silver Slipper in February, travels to Newcastle on Tuesday for his second start this preparation. Magic resumed on August 18 in an 1100m Hawkesbury maiden on a Good 4 track and settled a long way back…

Locals have weighed in on the polarising plan to raise Sydney's Warragamba Dam wall, calling instead for it to be partly drained ahead of flood events.

The Upper Colo Bridge was destroyed in the March 2021 Hawkesbury flood. Sixteen months on, and three floods later, locals are still waiting for a replacement.

An urban policy think tank has recommended buybacks for thousands of properties in Sydney's flood prone Hawkesbury-Nepean, as NSW considers how to reduce risk.

Windsor locals watching rising water swallow roads and houses for the third time this year struggle with the dilemma of rebuilding or relocating

For the fourth time in 18 months, floodwaters have inundated homes and businesses in Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Recent torrential rain is obviously the immediate cause. But poor decisions by successive New South Wales governments have exacerbated the damage.

SES perform 252 flood rescues overnight and thousands urged to evacuate as threat of inundation remains in Hawkesbury and Nepean

Thousands of Greater Sydney residents have fled their homes as flooding and rain worsens after a further 100mm fell overnight.

Again, thousands of residents in Western Sydney face a life-threatening flood disaster. At the time of writing, evacuation orders spanned southwest and northwest Sydney and residents of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley were being warned the crisis was escalating.

WaterNSW is preparing for Warragamba Dam to spill after days of persistent rain pushes water levels to capacity

Gouged riverbanks in flood-prone western Sydney need restoring and levies could fund drainage improvements, an inquiry into the NSW floods has heard.