Think this week’s been wet? It’s about to get turbocharged

Think this week’s been wet? It’s about to get turbocharged

A band of rain sweeping towards Sydney is forecast to deliver 150-millimetre downpours and flash flooding.

  • byAngus Dalton

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Body of bushwalker who fell from waterfall discovered by police divers

Body of bushwalker who fell from waterfall discovered by police divers

The woman slipped and plunged down a cliff in the Southern Highlands on Sunday,triggering a multi-day search by emergency services.

  • byAngus Dalton
Search for missing bushwalker enters second day

Search for missing bushwalker enters second day

The search has resumed for a young woman who fell from a waterfall in the Southern Highlands,south of Sydney.

  • byAngus Thomson
Residents allowed to return home as flooding threat eases

Residents allowed to return home as flooding threat eases

Road closures and diversions are still in place for much of the region north-west of Sydney,causing a headache for people attempting to return.

  • byAnthony Segaert
‘Stay indoors’:Month’s worth of rain dumped on Sydney in a day

‘Stay indoors’:Month’s worth of rain dumped on Sydney in a day

Roads were closed and some parts of Sydney were told to evacuate after the city received more than a month’s worth of rain in a single day.

  • byAnthony Segaert,Angus Thomson andChristopher Harris
Explained:What is causing the ‘Black Nor’easter’ smashing Sydney?

Explained:What is causing the ‘Black Nor’easter’ smashing Sydney?

Here’s what we know about the phenomenon and its role in wild weather that’s hit Sydney and other parts of NSW.

  • byAngus Thomson andChristopher Harris
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Missing 12-year-old Sydney boy found less than 100 metres from police station

Missing 12-year-old Sydney boy found less than 100 metres from police station

Hussein Al Mansoory was found by staff “safe and well” in the stairwell of an Auburn doctor’s clinic,close to where he was first reported missing.

  • byJessica McSweeney andAngus Thomson
‘Obviously lost. SORRY’:Madeleine’s only text as a bush ordeal unfolded

‘Obviously lost. SORRY’:Madeleine’s only text as a bush ordeal unfolded

It took just a few wrong steps for Madeleine,73,to lose sight of a remote walking track. Three days later,as searchers combed heavy forest,time was running out.

  • byJackson Graham
75,000 lightning strikes,mass train chaos:Sydney hit by storms
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75,000 lightning strikes,mass train chaos:Sydney hit by storms

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses were left without power and four people were hospitalised after being struck by lightning.

  • byAnthony Segaert andJessica McSweeney
Western Sydney hit by storms after bushwalkers struck by lightning

Western Sydney hit by storms after bushwalkers struck by lightning

Severe thunderstorms swept through the Blue Mountains and Western Sydney on Thursday,a day after lightning struck four people on the Three Sisters track.

  • bySarah McPhee andJessica McSweeney
Relief for Hunter Valley town as bushfire downgraded

Relief for Hunter Valley town as bushfire downgraded

A wind change has brought relief to residents of a NSW Upper Hunter Valley town who had been in the line of an out-of-control bushfire.

  • byJacob Shteyman andLaura Banks