Gun find in fake leg places hospital in lockdown

Liam Phillips St Vincent's Hospital was placed in lockdown yesterday afternoon after the alleged discovery of a pistol hidden in a patient's prosthetic leg.

Lacks fireworks but has Liberal flavour

Matt Wade If you were having doubts about the O'Farrell government's conservative credentials, take a look at its third budget.

Tall ships endeavour to be ship shape

Tim Barlass Their history is separated by almost a hundred years but they share maintenance problems.

Frontline services will be hit: unions

Sean Nicholls Unions are warning that frontline services across the state are at risk after NSW Treasurer Mike Baird announced further cuts to the public service, despite already axing thousands of jobs and...

Grant takes a little pressure off buyers searching for their first home

Philip Ly Married couple Vienna and Ashkan Polar say the state government's extension of the first home buyers' grant will help them make a less rushed decision when buying their first property.

Economy to pick up steam as low rates add momentum

Matt Wade The NSW economy will pick up pace over the next two years as record low interest rates help stoke household spending, business investment and home building, the state budget has forecast.

'Why did you shoot the police officer?'

Paul Bibby As she tried to save a highway patrol officer who lay bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest, Tamworth mother Cheryl Carpenter asked the man who allegedly pulled the trigger, 'why did you do it?'...

$300m for infrastructure development

Nicole Hasham, Stephen Nicholls New road, power and water projects will unlock land for almost 43,000 homes in NSW, part of a $300million bid to ensure infrastructure keeps pace with the state's hunger for housing.

Government aims to bank trust now hard decisions are in place

Sean Nicholls Mike Baird has delivered the very model of a mid-term state budget. It capitalises on the difficult decisions taken in the first two years of the government's first term and sets it up for the short...

Extra coin to put treasures online

Rachel Browne, Steve Dow A shoe buckle belonging to Captain James Cook, the First Fleet journals and more than 1000 diaries kept by serving WWI personnel are among the rare collections the State Library of NSW will put...

Re-routing risks of WestConnex project via taxpayer lauded

Leesha McKenny, Sean Nicholls Industry groups have welcomed the state government's decision to fund the first stage of its $10 billion WestConnex motorway before seeking private sector investment to help complete it.

Police numbers to rise but court jobs face chopping block

Anna Patty Jurors will be given a say in when they serve as part of a new $3 million electronic jury system. Attorney-General Greg Smith said that for the first time, people summoned for jury duty will be able...

More funding, stronger measures to beat bushfires

Ben Cubby The amount of hazard-reduction burning in national parks will be doubled this year in NSW's ''biggest'' fire management program, the government says.

'How can anybody say he didn't mean to do it?'

Lisa Davies For the past three months, Ralph and Kathy Kelly have known the man who killed their son Thomas was going to plead guilty. But not to murder.

Star City places $760m bet on its future

David Humphries The gambling hub is turning itself inside out.

Friends in high places

Linton Besser The Kazal brothers have built an empire stretching from Abu Dhabi to Sydney's most exclusive harbourside properties. Linton Besser investigates.

At a glance: NSW budget 2013

The main points from this year's NSW budget, delivered by Treasurer Mike Baird on Tuesday.

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Mother finally admits: 'I murdered Kiesha'

Paul Bibby It was August 3, 2010, and Kristi Anne Abrahams stood before the television cameras sobbing uncontrollably.

Never the rail deal

Jacob Saulwick Sydney's monorail, which runs in a 3.6-kilometre loop around the fringe of the city and through Darling Harbour, which has carriages that might have travelled to the moon and back five times, which...

Audience with lama for meditations on a sultana

Amy McNeilage Ivy McIntosh had not long heard of the Dalai Lama when he picked her onto his lap in front of a crowded Sydney Town Hall on Monday.