Premier Chris Minns was Labor’s shadow water minister when he first proposed lowering the capacity of Warragamba Dam.
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.
Here’s what we know about the phenomenon and its role in wild weather that’s hit Sydney and other parts of NSW.
Farmer Tim Kemp has lost thousands of avocados to years of drought and floods. Now,he’s trying to prepare for another big dry - but will it be too much?
Greater Sydney’s population will grow to 8.3 million people by 2056,with an estimated increase in annual water demand of 50 to 65 per cent,or up to 360 gigalitres per year – that’s 144,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
This change to the constitution is not going to address past grievances,but it is a way forward to bring us all together as Australians.
A high school student has exposed the absurdity of the Presbyterian Church’s attitude to sex.
The controversial proposal is dead after the NSW government decided not to proceed with the project due to huge costs and environmental and heritage concerns.
The story of Penrith,an electorate on a knife’s edge in the state election,is more complicated than infrastructure failing to meet population growth.
The inequitable funding of our state school system is a blight on the wider community.
Matt Kean has cast doubt on the promise to raise the Warragamba Dam wall,putting him at odds with Dominic Perrottet,who said construction would begin in the next term of government.