The Latest Breaking News from Sydney

Military helicopters airlifted stranded people from rooftops of flooded neighbourhoods in eastern Australia and a tenth victim was found on Tuesday following days of torrential rain as the wild weather slowly shifts south toward Sydney.

The Sydney Roosters have rewarded Trent Robinson with a five-year contract extension, locking him in as coach until the end of the 2028 NRL season.

A public servant has been put on leave after the Sydney train shutdown but in an "extraordinary" twist the NSW Transport secretary has refused to say why.

Australian property prices continue to race upwards, but the nation's two biggest cities are now lagging well behind.

Investor housing loans struck a record high of $11 billion in January, having grown for 15 consecutive months, the Australian Bureau of Statistics says.

An east coast low could bring heavy rainfall and damaging winds to city, south coast and southern tablelands, meteorologists warn

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MORNING BRIEFING: People in Sydney are warned to expect flooding and high winds over the coming days as the weather system that has battered northern NSW moves south.

The project at Appin has been described as a solution to Sydney's housing crisis, but locals are worried the government will rush through rezoning without delivering water and transport infrastructure.

In the first century of the third millennium, art by women is finally being regarded with the seriousness it deserves. Last year the National Gallery of Australia presented Know My Name, a mammoth exhibition in two parts. Anne Marsh covers similar territory in Doing Feminism, her compilation of women’s art…

Son of Sin, the debut novel from writer and poet Omar Sakr, tells the tale of Jamal Smith, a young Arab-Australian growing up in Western Sydney. Sakr’s two poetry collections, These Wild Houses (2017) and The Lost Arabs (2019), were widely admired, and the latter won the 2020 Prime Minister’s…