NSW News

Six times over limit: driver accused of hitting two cars

8:35am A driver has lost his licence after he allegedly smashed into two parked cars and recorded more than six times the legal alcohol limit.

Denial worsens danger of cancer

RACHEL BROWNE Cancer survival rates have increased across NSW, a new report shows, but an attitude of denial about the symptoms is still causing many people to die unnecessarily.

Loss sparks new hope through research

Rachel Browne Danielle Boothby was just two weeks old when her parents received the news no parent wants to hear. The newborn had a rare form of brain cancer - and the survival rate was zero.

Amputee denied a home

Ilya Gridneff A woman who lost both legs after a truck ran over her is fighting the NRMA for a suitable house.

Michael O'Reilly A car swerving into a bike lane in Centennial Park put Marc Rerceretnam in hospital. But the cyclist ended up on the wrong side of the law, slapped with a $59 fine by police for negligent bicycle riding.

How a stolen mobile phone brought down a brutal killer

Michael Duffy A robbery squad constable's determination not to let the savage murder of a service station attendant go unpunished led him through a maze of lies to a remorseless assassin.

Not happy to pay for other roads

Jim O'Rourke BARBARA KOWALEWSKI has used the M4 Motorway five days a week for the past 19 years to travel from her Blue Mountains home to her office at Blacktown. She has never had to pay a toll.

Farmers happy with coal seam gas deal

JOSEPHINE TOVEY Farmers have welcomed the state government's decision to appoint a commissioner to ensure landowners receive fair compensation for coal seam gas exploration.

KK quits, but will she bounce into Canberra?

Heath Aston, Rachel Browne The former premier Kristina Keneally has ruled out running for the seat of Kingsford Smith in next year's federal election, saying her political career will be over - for the time being, at least - when she leaves the NSW Parliament.

Moderates put brakes on plans by the Kelly gang

Heath Aston JACKIE KELLY'S bid to re-enter politics at council level has started a monumental blue within the Liberal Party.

Shooters MP could lose gun licence after death threat

HEATH ASTON THE firebrand Shooters Party MP Robert Brown could be forced to put down his guns. Police are looking into claims he should be stripped of his firearms licence after making a death threat to a political opponent on the floor of NSW Parliament last week.

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Fans raise glass to afternoon rugby

Daniel Lewis and Jim O'Rourke Paddington was awash with green and gold yesterday, interspersed with great splotches of red. International rugby was back at Moore Park.

They spent $2m but shoddy work could have killed children

Natalie O'Brien The sudden collapse of a ceiling in a Sydney primary school library has sparked an urgent investigation into the safety of similar buildings erected under the federal government's Building the Education Revolution.

For whom the tag beeps

Heath Aston Motorists face an expensive reality: it is they who will pay for Sydney's new motorways. With no other way to fund an estimated $30 billion infrastructure task over the next 20 years, the state government will hit motorists with new tolls.

Artists play card right to highlight tough times

Adam Fulton TIMES are tough but few ever thought they would see a shantytown break out in Sydney - much less Paddington.

Man charged with murder of lover after decades on run

Paul Bibby FOR more than two decades Grant David Mitchell hid from the consequences of a brutal crime in far North Queensland.

Teacher charged with child sex abuse

Deborah Snow POLICE have laid seven charges against a former female teacher at a northern beaches high school, who is accused of grooming a teenage male student for sex.

Westpac and KPMG lead move to office space in new Barangaroo towers

CAROLYN CUMMINS AFTER 18 months of negotiations and arguments, the $6 billion Barangaroo South project has cleared its first checkpoint with the signing of Westpac and KPMG as the anchors for the two office towers.

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. For starters it wasn't so dim, and the people were pleased, the people did raveth, the people did throngeth through the turnthtiles like a tide.

Superstitions thrived in the early, unlucky, years

Nicole Hasham DEATH snatched young George Hurley jnr quickly, after a few short hours of illness. Next went his brother Charles, whose tiny body succumbed to bronchitis; and then baby Louisa, seized by convulsions on a stifling hot Saturday afternoon.