Conditions on Sydney’s beaches are forecast to deteriorate into Saturday.

NSW coast declared ‘no-go zone’ after one-in-100 year swell warning

Swells up to 10 metres offshore and exceeding five metres on the coast have been forecast as wild weather whips up dangerous surf.

  • Jack Gramenz andCindy Yin

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A Coles truck is stuck in a sink hole that has formed outside St Mary’s Cathedral in the Sydney CBD.

Sinkhole in Sydney CBD forces school to close

At least two trucks came to the rescue of a Coles delivery vehicle which crashed into the hole.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo
Former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins.

‘Lives at risk’:former emergency service leaders blast government over development ‘lunacy’ in Sydney’s west

“Developers’ profits are trumping community safety” over plans to develop in Hawkesbury-Nepean valley.

  • Max Maddison
Heavy rain is threatening southern parts of NSW.

Sydney to cop drenching after South Coast lashed by low

A hazardous low-pressure system will sweep into the city on Friday night,bringing heavy rains,wild thunderstorms and monster waves.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo andJack Gramenz
A low-pressure system rapidly intensifying off Sydney’s coastline in the early hours of Thursday.

A polar vortex and a red-hot blob:Why Sydney just copped a month’s worth of rain

September is usually NSW’s driest month. Here’s why that’s not the case this year.

  • Angus Dalton
Images of a reported tornado captured from a NSW Rural Fire Service tower looking to the north-west of Young.

Lightning strike shuts down metro,tornado spins in southern NSW

Meanwhile,the rest of the state is facing flash-flooding and severe weather warnings as a low-pressure system rolls in from the west.

  • Josefine Ganko andKayla Olaya
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Bushland in Belrose and Oxford Falls would be rezoned for housing and other development under the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council plan.

To ignore RFS advice on housing isn’t just disrespectful. It’s stupid

Attempts to improve the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act are welcome in the current housing crisis. But disregarding advice from our emergency services is folly.

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Graphics showing the extent of small floods (1 in 5 chance of happening every year) to the biggest flood possible (0.1% chance of happening in an 80-year lifetime).

A megaflood devastated early Sydney. An even worse catastrophe is hidden in the city’s ‘bathtub’

If the disaster happened today,it would spark 100,000 evacuations and inflict $7.5 billion in damage.

  • Angus Dalton
Pilot David Stephens with his 1966 Beechcraft Debonair plane.

Body found near Snowy Mountains plane wreckage

Wreckage of the light plane was spotted by a rescue helicopter on Thursday afternoon. Experienced pilot David Stephens was the sole occupant.

  • Penry Buckley andKayla Olaya
The new tool can provide flood predictions on a resolution of five by five metres.

‘World first’:5G spy will know if your home’s at risk of disaster

Sent a text today? Your phone could soon be part of an enormous,highly accurate monitoring tool.

  • Angus Dalton