Darlinghurst

Charge laid 20 years after Darlinghurst sex attack

Cold Case Justice Project review re-examined DNA evidence after sex attack in Oxford Street underground car park.

Trio steal cash, jewellery from Darlinghurst hotel

Three men who stole a large amount of cash and jewellery from a central Sydney hotel are on the run, police say.

Back to the glory days when sun shone on Test rugby in Sydney

Peter FitzSimons

Peter Fitzsimons And then, in those dim and distant ages, the Lord said: ''Let there be light.'' And yea, verily, rugby, the game they play in heaven, was transformed.

Liquor licence freeze extended

Australian Hotels Association CEO Paul Nicolaou

Sean Nicholls A FREEZE on new liquor licences in Kings Cross, Darlinghurst and the southern central business district will be extended for six months while a study into the impact of the clustering of licensed...

Kings Cross Ink stink: council doesn't see police objection

Lisa Davies After a council blunder, Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore is trying to revoke a licence for Kings Cross Ink, a new venture with links to nightclub boss John Ibrahim.

Woman in charge of a manhunt

Carlene York

Carlene York doesn't often get time for a sit-down lunch. Between her family home in Sydney, her Newcastle place, visiting 115 police stations as far north as Tweed Heads and heading one of the...

Boost for childcare places

Leesha McKenny URBAN AFFAIRS WITH the population of inner Sydney growing at a faster rate than any other area in NSW, the City of Sydney has allocated $55 million to build new childcare centres over the next decade to meet...

Man who fell to earth but still cheated death

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Glenda Kwek MIKEE COLLINS fell eight floors from his Darling Point balcony. He shouldn't be alive, but five months later he is back working out at the gym.

John Ibrahim's bazooka-proof tattoo parlour

Kings Cross Ink, a new Tattoo venture being opened by Mark Alexander and John Ibrahim.

Ilya Gridneff MOST legitimate businesses do not need ''bazooka-proof'' wire mesh and bulletproof windows. But Mark Alexander-Erber - who says he wants to revolutionise the tattoo industry with Kings Cross Ink - is...

Obeid family and friends reap millions from lucrative coal licences

Eddie Obeid

Kate Mcclymont, Linton Besser A FRIEND and financial adviser to Eddie Obeid and his family, who had no mining background and a $1 company, won a coal exploration licence worth millions of dollars in a controversial tender run by...

Pizza scooters left thin and crispy by fire in second attack in a year

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Julie Power Hope you like your scooters as thin and crispy as your pizza.

Pizza whiz-kid hit by arsonists for second time

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Julie Power For the second time, one of Domino's most successful young franchisees has been attacked by arsonists.

Domino effect: pizza shop scooters torched in new attack

Domino's Pizza scooters were set alight in Kings Cross

Lisa Davies FORGET Sydney's bitter bikie war. Scooters have emerged as the newest battleground for crime supremacy in the Emerald City.

Tram plans could drive commuters off the buses

Buses on George Street.

Jacob Saulwick THOUSANDS of commuters would be forced off buses at a major new tram interchange at Central Station under early plans to revitalise Sydney's central business district and put a light rail line down...

Shots another chapter in city's neon dream

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There is no way I will be venturing outside tonight. As usual Kings Cross will be invaded by up to 20,000 people who will take over the streets, nightclubs, hotels and bars.

Kings Cross shooting: warrant issued for boy

Louise Hall An arrest warrant has been issued for a 16-year-old boy allegedly involved in a Kings Cross joyride that ended with police shooting two teenagers.

PIC won't probe Kings Cross shooting

The Police Integrity Commission (PIC) says it does not have the resources to investigate the controversial shooting of alleged joyriders in Sydney's Kings Cross.

The red light goes out

 Kings Cross on Thursday night

'Ashtray'' Frank Amante has seen a lot in the 45 years he's survived in Kings Cross. He's watched the strip's invasion by American troops on R&R during the Vietnam War.

Marketing employee charged over $300k fraud

A Sydney man allegedly used his employer's credit card to splurge $127,000 on holidays, electronic goods and other personal items.

Sydney strip club shooting: man hit in shoulder

Bada Bing

Nick Ralston A man has been shot in the shoulder at a Sydney strip club, police say. Police were called to Bada Bing Nightspot on Darlinghurst Road, Kings Cross, just before 2am today.