Lane Cove

Outrage at long wait for ambos

Kirsty Needham Almost 300 patients in need of immediate medical assistance waited more than 45 minutes for an ambulance to arrive last year, including 50 potentially life threatening cases when the patient waited...

Secret letters reveal an officer's royal relationship

Rupert Dent

Tim Barlass He was an Australian army officer educated at Shore Grammar with blue eyes and fair hair.

M2 motorists face fresh charge

Jacob Saulwick Thousands of Sydney motorists will face another road charge next year, if a new ramp is built offering direct access to the M2 for southbound drivers on Lane Cove Road.

M2 motorists face cost ramp-up

Motorists

Jacob Saulwick Thousands of Sydney motorists will face another road charge next year, if a new ramp is built offering direct access to the M2 for southbound drivers on Lane Cove Road.

Bad weather blamed for NSW chopper crash

Police are searching for the parents of a boy, believed to be about four, who has been found sitting alone in a gutter in Sydney's west.

All hands on deck as baths prepare for pool parties

Madison Hungerford, aged 6.

John Huxley PLASTIC booms on the shark-proof net need to be rehung. Razor-sharp oyster shells must be chipped from the retaining wall.

Raw prawn theft accusation costs Coles $52,900

Louise Hall Coles Supermarkets has been ordered to pay $52,900 in damages to a customer wrongly accused of stealing raw prawns from its Lane Cove store.

Two dead in helicopter crash on Sydney's north shore

crash

Saffron Howden, Stephanie Gardiner and Glenda Kwek Two people have died in a helicopter crash on Sydney's north shore, police say.

All aboard O'Farrell's rail funding express

Cityrail O'Farrell

Jacob Saulwick UNDETERRED by the state's ugly record in teaming up with the private sector for big transport developments, the O'Farrell government is asking financiers how they would like to pay for its signature...

A bridge too fast? Police target 'unsafe' cyclists ... but not for speeding

Cyclist

Stephanie Gardiner Several cyclists have been fined this morning for running red lights or not wearing helmets during a police crackdown near the Pyrmont Bridge, renewing debate about riding in the city.

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Downsized on pay day

Bill Shorten

Heath Aston Blake Adair-Roberts and Raihan Uddin know their way around a hamburger.

New faces: O'Farrell launches super-ministries

O'Farrell

Heath Aston DEPUTY Premier Andrew Stoner has given up the key roads portfolio in favour of a new super-ministry comprising trade, investment and regional infrastructure in a Coalition cabinet that will feature...

Failing train builder to hit taxpayers with $1.6b bailout bill

A Waratah train

Jacob Saulwick, Philip Wen, Stuart Washington THE state government faces a bill of $1.6 billion to bail out Australia's largest public-private transport project, the delivery of 78 Waratah trains.

Super funds eye earnings from construction

Annette Sampson The retirement savings of NSW residents could be helping to rebuild state infrastructure if the Coalition wins today.

Family tie risk for MP

Heath Aston STATE POLITICAL EDITOR GREG SMITH, the man expected to become the state's next attorney-general, used taxpayer money to engage a company that employs his son Nathaniel, a plumber turned political lobbyist.

Nurse suspect terrified boarder

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Malcolm Brown ROBERT ADAMS, a prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed murder of the nurse Mary Louise Wallace, so frightened a one-time friend and boarder who asked him about it, that the man left Mr...

Whatever happened to Mary Wallace?

Mary Wallace

Malcolm Brown Police are still trying to find the answers 27 years later.

M2 expansion may slow down buses

Bus

Andrew West and Jacob Saulwick THE widening of the M2 between Lane Cove and the Hills district could have a disastrous effect on a public transport route into one of Sydney's booming job centres, transport experts say.

Nurse murder suspect made it a boast, court told

Mary Louise Wallace

Malcolm Brown WEEKS after the 1983 disappearance of a Sydney nurse in which he was named as a prime suspect, Robert John Adams told a kiosk manager at the Lane Cove National Park she had ''better watch out or I...

A dry new year in the city

Jim O'Rourke DRUNKEN revellers are forcing local councils across the state to expand New Year's Eve alcohol-free zones to keep the event family-friendly.