Homebush

Baby Bridget was found in a box identical to this.

Farewell for Baby Bridget two years after being found in a shoebox

Stephanie Gardiner With a black and white polka dot cardboard box the only clue to her identity, a baby girl will be given a final resting place two years after she was found buried in a Sydney yard.

Mane attraction at Homebush is one high horse

PETER HAWKINS ROSEHILL may have hosted the Golden Slipper for two-year-old thoroughbreds yesterday but at the Royal Easter Show, Homebush, another type of horse was sending crowds into a frenzy.

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

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.

No room at the inn

The organisers are promoting it as their best conference yet, a festival featuring the ''world's most influential speakers and artists, new electives and renewed Kingdom passion''.

Barangaroo will have big impact but no footprint

Rachel Browne IT IS the biggest urban renewal project since the Olympic site was built at Homebush Bay, but Barangaroo is also likely to be the greenest.

Exhibition space may still not be enough

Sean Nicholls SYDNEY risks running out of exhibition space within seven years even after the $1 billion redevelopment of the Darling Harbour precinct, leading industry figures are warning the NSW government.

River ferries could service eight new sites

Jacob Saulwick RESIDENTS on the Parramatta River and on the lower north shore could be served by eight new ferry wharves - if the state government was prepared to plan and pay for them.

'Mistaken identity': family shaken up by violent home invasion

Glenda Kwek A family has been threatened with machetes, hammers and iron bars by men wearing balaclavas in the fifth home invasion in western and north-west Sydney in a week.

Had enough yet? Don't worry, the downpours will be back again today

Saffron Howden SYDNEYSIDERS will need to keep umbrellas at the ready again today as heavy rain bears down on the city and forecasters warn of flash flooding.

Heritage-listed mansion gutted by suspicious fire

Rachel Olding THE house was one of the oldest in Sydney, a heritage-listed Homebush mansion ''steeped in history'' and set among sprawling gardens.

Mystery man seen before Range Rover set on fire

Stephanie Gardiner A man wearing a motorbike helmet and camouflage pants was seen just moments before a Range Rover was torched in the underground car park of an apartment block at Sydney Olympic Park, police say.

Festive joy is totally Orthodox

Andrew Taylor IT'S not just children who look forward to Christmas in Monica Mikhail's family.

Commuters jump from platform to pull woman from tracks

Jacob Saulwick THERE were fewer than 50 people on Epping station's platform five yesterday when one of them, at 7.16 am, fell onto the tracks.

Fisheries research centre staff given marching orders

Josephine Tovey ONE in five staff members at the Cronulla Fisheries Research Centre is being offered a new job in Sydney, as the O'Farrell government pushes ahead with plans to close the centre as part of its...

Cars banned on proposed bridge project over Parramatta River

Matthew Moore DEVELOPERS plan to build a 300-metre-long bridge across one of the most polluted waterways in Australia to provide access to public transport and parks in one of Sydney's fastest growing areas.

Architect takes gold in Olympic-inspired win

Matthew Moore A SYDNEY architect best known for a lifetime of work planning hospitals and building sports facilities in Australia has won the profession's highest award.

Brookfield first past the post for Royal Randwick revamp

Kelsey Munro CROWDS will be nearly halved and all but major race days will be farmed out to other tracks as the $150 million redevelopment of the Randwick racecourse kicks off this month.