The Latest Breaking News from Western Sydney

Sydney's gangland tensions have included 11 murders in the city's southwest over the past two years, with police pointing to drugs as the cause of the problems.

Key workers are now battling to keep a roof over their head along with older single women and those fleeing domestic violence, a report finds, and Greater Western Sydney is failing to keep up with demand for social and affordable housing for the vulnerable.

Residents in some of Australia's fastest-growing areas have raised concerns over access to sports facilities in their community.

The floods are still set to worsen.

It was Western Sydney’s turn for a drenching this week, as the region was hit by an east coast low – the infamous storm systems that periodically bring heavy rainfall to the New South Wales coast.

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…

Politicians have been consumed by the religious discrimination bill — but do voters really care? We asked people in the electorates of Reid and Parramatta what they thought.

NSW's environment agency is investigating a number of fish kill events across Western Sydney, with a "distressing" 4,000 fish found at one site alone.

Jay Lupton was fed up with "junkies and drama" at his girlfriend's mother's Western Sydney home so he stabbed one to death, his murder trial was told.