Elouise and Danny Massa,and their son Joe (left).

‘It hasn’t worked for Joe’:The law change that will end the Northern Beaches Hospital model

The parents of Joe,who died at the controversial hospital,have welcomed a major shake-up that will reset “our moral compass”.

  • Michael McGowan,Angus Thomson andFrances Howe

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Queenwood Senior Girls School year 9 students Evie Davis,Sonia Punter and Chloe Abbott attended a pelvic pain workshop yesterday at the school in Mosman. MARCH 21,2025. Photo:Max Mason-Hubers

This program is helping girls stay in school,but NSW students are missing out

NSW is the only state that doesn’t fund endometriosis and pain workshops for public school students despite research revealing one in four girls miss classes due to period pain.

  • Emily Kaine andAngus Thomson
Index composite image for story on elective surgery waiting lists in NSW Wednesday March 19,2025.

Revealed:The NSW patients waiting the longest for surgery

The number of patients overdue for elective surgery in the state’s public hospitals has tripled as waiting lists reach levels not seen since the COVID pandemic.

  • Angus Thomson
A search for a six-year-old in bushland on the NSW south coast has ended in tragedy.

Body discovered in search for missing six-year-old

A desperate search for a young girl who went missing on Sunday afternoon has ended in tragedy after a body was found in bushland.

  • Angus Thomson
Jess Johnston enjoys St Patricks Day at the Rocks under the shadow of the Harbour Bridge in stiffingly hot conditions. Jess has lived in Sydney for 5.5 years now but is originally from Dublin,Ireland. Sydney,16 March 2025. Photo Jessica Hromas

‘Water,and Guinness’:How Sydneysiders fought the autumn heatwave

As Sydney endured a brutally hot,dry and windy Sunday,one group turned to a traditional way to manage the heat.

  • Julie Power,Angus Thomson andKayla Olaya
Dr Daniel Timms at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute with the artificial heart.

‘Complete game changer’:Man leaves Sydney hospital with artificial heart in world first

For more than three weeks,a man walked our streets with a titanium heart in a world-first achievement set to change the lives of people experiencing heart failure.

  • Angus Thomson
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Mark Da Costa in his new St Peters cafe,Bueno Eatery.

He called his cafe a ‘Trump safe zone’ but now he’s making a comeback

Mark da Costa says he’s a different man to the one who made a string of homophobic comments in 2020. But some inner west residents will boycott his new venue.

  • Angus Thomson andAnthony Segaert
Leah Pitman,34,and Dustin Atkinson,39,have spoken for the first time after losing their baby girl Harper just hours after her birth.

They trusted this hospital to care for their baby. Instead,the unimaginable happened

Leah Pitman and Dustin Atkinson have spoken for the first time after the loss of their baby girl,Harper,just hours after her birth at Northern Beaches Hospital.

  • Angus Thomson
NSW Government’s pill testing trial site at the Yours&Owls Festival in Wollongong.

‘Inherent contradiction’:Inside the tent where drugs are legal

A site tucked away near a music festival’s entrance let revellers test for the first time in NSW if the pills they had bought were ‘safe’.

  • Angus Thomson
University of Sydney professor Georgina Long said the trial would uncover whether the approach she has pioneered to treat melanoma could be used to fight glioblastoma.

Can this melanoma therapy beat brain cancer? We’re about to find out

A world-first clinical trial will investigate whether the experimental treatment given to a former Australian of the Year can treat aggressive tumours in other patients.

  • Angus Thomson