The Paragon in Katoomba.

The state of the iconic Paragon Cafe left everyone in shock. Now ‘enough is enough’

The NSW government is taking action against the owner of the heritage-listed art deco cafe in the Blue Mountains.

  • Julie Power

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Giulia Di Sipio (left) and Jordy Kornfeld run the closest mental health service to this Brunswick West phone box.

Telstra wants three nondescript phone boxes heritage listed. Here’s why

Even in the age of mobile devices,these public phones have proven indispensable.

  • Lachlan Abbott
MLC Building,North Sydney.

MLC Building is on the heritage list but part of it might be razed

Developers have lodged plans to demolish a section of the languishing North Sydney office block for a 22-storey tower.

  • Megan Gorrey
Paragon,Katoomba

Inside the once-charming Paragon,a heartbreaking discovery is made

It epitomised glamour and fine dining for 110 years. Now,as our photos show,vandals have trashed its interior.

  • Julie Power
New plans have been submitted for 47 Edward Street in Brisbane.

Heritage-listed Edward Street building to become four-level city pad

The Victorian warehouse,which has survived floods,a fire and changes to its use,is set to become a luxury apartment.

  • Sean Parnell
Historian Zeny Edwards,right,has written a book about the mosaics of the Melocco Brothers,including this example in the State Library of NSW.

The forgotten and overlooked Sydney art you may be standing on right now

The Melocco brothers painted in stone,and their work turned architecture into art in places nearly every Sydneysider has visited. Look down,or you may miss it.

  • Julie Power
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All but four of the buyers at the original auction in 2003 rescinded their offers.

Sydney’s most expensive swamp hits the market

The parcel of empty land will finally be sold off for homes,decades after the army moved out. The council says the move will do little to help the housing crisis.

  • Megan Gorrey
Pathways Cremorne Seniors Housing.

The fight against a seven-storey housing block in Sydney’s north

The government wants to build more seniors housing. Locals say this proposal will clog roads,drive down property values and impinge on heritage buildings.

  • Megan Gorrey
These ochre hand stencils in a Nullarbor cave indicate the traditional ownership of the Mirning Peoples who used the cave system for shelter,ceremony,creative expression and a source of water and flint for tools.

Scientists warn $100 billion ‘green’ project will destroy WA heritage

A plan to build 3000 wind turbines and six million solar panels in WA to make hydrogen and ammonia is in an area experts call “an irreplaceable global treasure”.

  • Emma Young
Sita Sargeant will soon be running walking tours in Sydney and Melbourne that highlight women’s place in history.

The women who shaped Sydney history and changed Sita Sargeant’s life

A canny publican who used a legal loophole to vote inspired a new book and walking tours to showcase notable women in history.

  • Julie Power