Turramurra
Elite schools spend $20 million a year on upgrades
Amy McNeilage Sydney's elite private schools are spending up to $20 million a year on capital works, data on the My School website shows.
Thousands spent on a dodgy kitchen
Saffron Howden Chloe Lenane was just weeks from arriving in the world when her unsuspecting mother hired ''nice as pie'' Stefan Mayer to install a new kitchen in their Turramurra home.
Former air steward resigned to jail after $8.5m raid on wealthy
A FORMER Qantas flight attendant, who fleeced more than $8.5 million from high-profile and wealthy investors, admits he deserves to go to jail.
Conman baits some big fish, collecting $8.5m
Louise Hall A FORMER flight attendant who falsely claimed to be in business with James Packer and Lachlan Murdoch conned 16 investors out of up to $8.
'No way', says man accused of bid to kidnap girls
Rachel Olding A man accused of trying to kidnap two young girls on Sydney's north shore allegedly threatened to rape one as she tried to scream for help.
Fire destroys boat-repair shop at marina
A fire at a marina in Sydney’s north has destroyed a boat-repair shop.
Key murder witness accused of killing
Michael Duffy WITNESS E is not well. The former commando is in jail. He has cancer. Most of his liver was removed last year and he is due to start chemotherapy this week.
Resident group's victory leaves Ku-ring-gai in a planning limbo
Kelsey Munro Urban Affairs UNLIKE the residents who won a battle against high-rise, Ku-ring-gai council is not opening champagne over last week's court decision which threw out a major planning document and put a costly...
Two dead in helicopter crash on Sydney's north shore
Saffron Howden, Stephanie Gardiner and Glenda Kwek Two people have died in a helicopter crash on Sydney's north shore, police say.
Man cut into pieces and thrown in river, court hears
Paul Bibby It was a grisly discovery: the decomposing remains of an adult male carefully wrapped in six blue plastic packages bound with duct tape and wire.
Clearway to a faster Sydney Saturday
Alexandra Smith and Jacob Saulwick SOME weekends Giselle Perry's car trail covers most of Sydney, often running from St Ives, across to a football match in Bellevue Hill, out to Fairfield and home again - all by early afternoon.
Guiding hand to a new world of campfires and damper
Malcolm Brown DIANA AL-HAMOUNI, 11, of the Australian International Academy at Strathfield, had never been in the bush before. Nor had her fellow pupil Maryam Safi, 10, of Greenacre.
Post chief defends closures
Kelsey Munro AUSTRALIA POST has dug in its heels over its unpopular decision to close branches in Glebe, Turramurra and Woollahra, with an executive saying post offices that lose money cannot be subsidised by the...
Residents call for post office rethink
Kelsey Munro URBAN AFFAIRS GLEBE and Woollahra post offices are losing money fast but residents and politicians don't care for figures - they just want them to stay open.
Residents rally over post office closures
Kelsey Munro HELL hath no fury like a post office customer scorned.
Whatever happened to Mary Wallace?
Malcolm Brown Police are still trying to find the answers 27 years later.
Nurse took offer of ride home, then disappeared
Malcolm Brown A MAN who offered to drive missing Sydney nurse Mary Louise Wallace home in the early hours of September 24, 1983, had committed a number of assaults on women and had been jailed for rape, Glebe...
Widow of Lyme disease victim to sue NSW Health
Kate Benson HEALTH A SYDNEY woman will launch a class action against NSW Health after autopsy results showed her husband had been riddled with a disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia.
Court grants Lyme disease autopsy
Kate Benson, HEALTH A SYDNEY woman has been awarded a Supreme Court injunction to have her dead husband tested for a disease the Health Department says does not exist in Australia.
I'm a fun guy not a fraudster
Saffron Howden THE man charged with conning a string of high-profile Australians out of more than $7 million using photographs of himself with the world's elite claims he is generous, ''very nice'', ''very...
