Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun.

Liverpool Council sends voters back to the polls – for $500,000

A much cheaper alternative to byelections,a countback,exists,but not in this local government area.

  • Anthony Segaert

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Fairfield’s Crescent Plaza was fenced off by the council and NSW Police on Tuesday.

The $1.8 million Sydney plaza now fenced off indefinitely

Crescent Plaza was pitched as a modern urban space. Now the council that built it has shut it down,concerned about alcohol-fuelled “anti-social behaviour”.

  • Anthony Segaert
Sold-out signage on the petrol bowsers at Ampol Foodary Kingsford.

NSW using secret fuel data as retailers fined over ‘price mismatches’

NSW is experiencing the greatest diesel and fuel shortages of any state,as diesel is redirected to regional areas to support farmers’ sowing season.

  • Michael McGowan andAnthony Segaert
Covering western Sydney:how the Herald’s photographer captured Hindu celebrations as locals lit up their homes in Phantom Street,Nirimba Fields,as part of Blacktown City’s Diwali Lights in October.

Western Sydney lost 21 newspapers in a decade. What’s happened in that vacuum?

People need to know – and deserve to know – what’s going on in their neighbourhood.

  • Anthony Segaert
Hawkesbury City Council Deputy Mayor Sarah McMahon.

‘Does not pass pub test’:The councillor,the local paper and a free passage to India

A deputy mayor was set to go on an all-expenses-paid trip to the subcontinent. Then,everything spiralled out of control.

  • Ellie Busby andAnthony Segaert
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to reporters after a G7 meeting of foreign ministers.

US-Iran war as it happened:US expects to end operation in ‘weeks,not months’,says Rubio;G7 call for attacks on civilians to stop;Israel attacks Iranian nuclear facilities

Follow our live coverage of the conflict in the Middle East and related developments in Australia.

  • Anthony Segaert,Sarah McPhee andAlexander Darling
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It’s not a park:the Ryde Civic Centre site opposite Top Ryde Shopping Centre that remains a grassed-over hole in the ground.

Ryde’s hole in the ground stays as council raises ‘serious probity concern’

Councillors were asked to report any discussions they had with developers after staff received information about the civic centre project.

  • Anthony Segaert andCindy Yin
Fairfield Council,in Sydney’s west,had its servers accessed in October 2025.

Fairfield Council goes to court following major data breach

In October last year,Fairfield Council’s servers were illegally accessed by hackers who are assumed to be located outside Australia.

  • Anthony Segaert
City of Ryde deputy CEO Michael Galderisi,CEO Wayne Rylands,and governance boss Graham Humphreys.

Sydney council boss and senior staff placed on leave after secret four-hour meeting

The decision was made after councillors were called to a closed-door meeting with just a few hours’ notice.

  • Anthony Segaert andCindy Yin
The government has pulled funding for an SBS production hub in western Sydney.

Government scraps plans for SBS site in western Sydney

The decision ends a years-long,multimillion-dollar bid to move the multicultural broadcaster into a more diverse region.

  • Ellie Busby,Anthony Segaert andCalum Jaspan