Declan Bowring

The 53-year-old from Padstow remembers getting cold and collapsing. Over the next hour, a machine worked to keep his brain and vital organs functioning.

Just 30 kilometres north of a bustling CBD but surrounded by national parks, Palm Beach headland has been given the nod by the DarkSky International organisation. 

The Sydney artist's children's book illustrations were detailed and realistic. But after a brush with a deadly infection, she adapted to a new painting style.    

Hundreds of students in Western Sydney have had their schooling turned around by the "homegrown" solution, but the program receives no state funding.            

An artist whose work captured the beauty of Sydney Harbour is being honoured two years after his death.

Riding a horse in Sydney is enough to turn heads. Thanks to a viral video, "Auburn Cowboy" Ehtesham Ahmad gets recognised even when he's out of the saddle.

The longest serving lord mayor in the city's history says there is still more work to be done, but a Labor councillor has slammed her "astonishing" inability to "admit her mistakes".

Accusations of copycatting have been levelled by two small businesses operating close to each other in the same street in Sydney's Newtown.

The demerger of Bayside Council could cost ratepayers hundreds of dollars each if it goes ahead.

The single mother exercised regularly and had good blood pressure. It was a shock to wake up in the middle of the night feeling something "catastrophic" was happening.  

David Chandler says he will not seek to extend his appointment when his term expires in August this year.

It is the second largest economy in New South Wales worth $32.3 billion and by 2040 Greater Parramatta will be home to more than 446,000 people.

An experiment finds dark-roofed homes in Western Sydney are recording roof cavity temperatures as much as 10 degrees warmer than homes with lighter shades.

There are concerns about the impact on beachgoers and marine traffic near the mouth of the Hawkesbury River as debris continues to appear weeks after torrential rain brought flooding to Sydney's west.

The parents of teenager Jack Beasley who died after being stabbed in Queensland in 2019 are pushing to bring "Jack's law" to NSW, which would allow police to use handheld metal detectors without a warrant. Data shows the number of knife crimes is at a 20 year low. 

Waverley Council says the site of the killing spree is becoming hallowed ground as it works to help the community express its grief over the shocking attacks.

NSW Premier Chris Minns says a similar memorial to the one honouring victims of the Martin Place Lindt Cafe siege would be examined.

From laps in outback water holes to Sydney's stadium of Olympic dreams, a tiny NSW primary school defies the odds and raises the roof in the state championships relay race.

About 10 per cent of Australia's rock fishing deaths in the past 20 years have occurred in the Randwick City Council area. Data shows many of the fatalities are men born in Asia, but it's hoped a new ad campaign can help keep fishers safe.

Businessman Geoff Cousins has been involved in many successful environmental campaigns and has now turned his attention to the logging of native forests on the Mid North Coast. 

As the Hawkesbury deals with its seventh flood in 18 months, NSW minister Rose Jackson's flood mitigation idea involves reducing the city's reliance on Warragamba Dam.

Bayside Council was formed in 2016 following the amalgamation of the former Rockdale and Botany Bay local government areas, but is now looking at spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to prepare a business case for demerging.

A peregrine falcon that came to ground during the set-up for Taylor Swift's concert has recovered in the care of wildlife professionals and has been released back into his habitat at Stadium Australia.

Australian flat oysters went extinct in Botany Bay during the late 1800s, but a conservation project is working to bring them back.

A Sydneysider swims for 31 hours without stopping to complete a journey that long-distance legends Des Renford and Susie Maroney were both forced to abandon.