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Billboards and mobile phone alerts brandishing the state government’s new testing rules were rolled out last night under a major campaign to keep citizens away from swamped testing clinics. Sydney property prices jumped an extraordinary 25 per cent during 2021 – ­capping off an incredible year that also saw the highest number of sales on record in Australia. A teenage tra...

A diplomatic investigation is under way after two police security cars crashed as Australia’s High Commissioner to London George Brandis tried to catch up to and join the Prime Minister’s official motorcade at the Glasgow COP26 climate summit. Genomic sequencing of the sickest Covid-19 patients in NSW has found that 74 per cent of them have the Delta strain despite Omicron rapidly beco...

  A significant proportion of people classified as Covid-19 hospitalisations in NSW are in reality being admitted for other illnesses or injuries but happen to also have the virus.   Tourism experts have declared Sydney will be the beneficiary of less interstate travel this January....  A Court's decision to allow an accused drug dealer “back on the streets” a day a...

Today Doctors and nurses from Sydney hospitals plunged into the nightmare of the Delta outbreak have opened up to the sunday telegraph....revealing the truth of that deadly wave, and how it has made them better prepared for the threat of Omicron.  Travel between Sydney and Newcastle would be slashed to just 45 minutes under a Labor proposal for a high-speed rail line to be unveiled by Anthony...

Former NRL star Frank Pritchard is battling the effects of Covid and could be put in an induced coma WITH an enormous fire-burst of light, Sydney welcomed 2022 with a simple message – it’s time to shine. AUSTRALIA has been warned Covid cases could hit six figures a day, as the prime minister backflipped on a testing rule just 24 hours after it was announced. A red-hot market hasn&rsquo...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared he is disgusted and appalled by the actions of Indigenous activists chanting “let it burn” as flames engulfed the entrance to Old Parliament House in Canberra. THE end of 2021 can’t come soon enough for most Sydneysiders and although there might be people out and about tonight, the famed Harbour fireworks will see off the year with a ban...

Following an astounding 11,201 daily cases, Premier Dominic Perrottet has drawn a line in the sand – this is life with Covid and NSW will not go back. NEW Transport Minister David Elliott will push for a stripped-back January train timetable amid plummeting passengers  and rising cases of Covid-19 among workers. There are still hotel rooms avaliable to enjoy a Covidsafe view of Friday&r...

Sydney’s toll roads will once again ramp up their prices on January 1.  A THREE-year-old boy who drowned in Lake Macquarie on Christmas Day has been remembered by his family as “our little angel”. INDUSTRY figures across the hospitality and retail sectors have called for isolation requirements for staff deemed close contacts  For England to lose the Ashes two hours shy...

Health Minister Brad Hazzard has slammed Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s decision to hold off on removing “tourism testing” requirements until the new year  as “passive aggressive stupidity”. SYDNEY to Hobart supermaxis trio Black Jack, LawConnect and Scallywag have managed to dodge the dramas which have sent more than a third of the fleet to the sidel...

Only a handful of Covid-19 cases in intensive care are believed to be infected with the dominant Omicron strain, with NSW Health revealing they believe it is Delta that is putting people in hospital. Rising Covid numbers were not enough to put off Sydney’s bargain hunters on Boxing Day with thousands hitting the shops for some retail therapy. Two people including a toddler are dead and two m...

Premier Dominic Perrottet has urged the community to “stay strong” through what he described as a challenging time. Health care workers have been asked to cancel holidays and work extra shifts to cover for colleagues off due to Covid, as leaked emails shed light on how widespread exposure is in health care workers.  Forget simply paying $1m for a house – seven figures was th...

Masks are once again compulsory indoors as NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet made a significant backflip on his policy  in the face of record Covid-19 infections. A fight between former flatmates over unpaid rent, a playstation and a cat has left one man dead and his son fighting for life after a wild brawl in Sydney’s western suburbs. Holiday-makers eyeing a coastal escape this festive sea...

Free rapid antigen tests will be mailed directly to households and QR code check-ins will be brought back for NSW supermarkets and restaurants under changes to the Covid policies in NSW Volunteer lifesavers who dodged crackling powerlines and ignored the threat of flying debris to reach three women struck by a tree during a savage Sydney storm are being hailed as superheroes. Celebrity chef Manu F...

A Central Coast public school gave children as young as seven a lesson telling them gender is “the way you feel on the inside”,  Fast-tracked booster shots, mandatory masks and new worst-case scenario modelling will be on the ­agenda at today’s national ­cabinet meeting. Mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest is pursuing legal action against Facebook...

Australia has smashed England by 275 runs in the second Ashes test to take a crucial 2-Nil lead. Every teacher in NSW will be placed on a register so parents can check their suitability for the classroom after new data revealed a record number of public  school staffers were fired for misconduct last year. Early data on the Omicron strain is “encouraging” as experts hit out at sec...

The public is paying the bill for convicted criminals in the state’s jails to freeze their sperm, while an embarrassed health department has tried to cover up the details. Premier Dominic Perrottet has boldly declared it is time for more “personal responsibility”   as he strives to keep NSW firmly open while other jurisdictions stare down the barrel of another Christmas unde...

Bombshell allegations have been made in court that cricketer Stuart MacGill facilitated cocaine deals at his restaurant on Sydney’s North Shore. Luke and Tiffany Hale had spent five years saving up a deposit for a house – only to see it vanish in seconds thanks to scammers. Two years after retired cricketer Michael Slater was kicked off a Qantas flight for being “disruptive&rdquo...

The state’s health system is bracing for a third wave of Covid patients, with  some hospitals fearing the  numbers of this new outbreak could overload emergency and intensive care departments. Pokie profits for clubs and hotels are continuing to soar in the pandemic, with new gambling data showing punters in NSW lost more than $630m last month. The hills are alive with the sound of...

Retired NRL star Brett Finch is feeling “stressed and distraught” after being charged earlier this week over allegations he commented on child abuse ­material in an online chatroom. Five primary school classmates were killed and a three others were fighting for life last night after falling from a windswept jumping castle on what was meant to be a fun day to celebrate the end of sc...

A $7 billion fighting fund will be set aside by the state government to counteract potential Covid impacts and to invest in key reforms in a bid to kickstart the economy if it faces another shock. Residents of upscale Mosman have shut down a Covid testing site in their exclusive north shore enclave, claiming they were at risk of catching the virus from drivers getting out of their cars to “s...

Embattled former NRL star Brett Finch has been ­arrested for allegedly making comments about child abuse material in an online chatroom. Fully vaccinated “close ­contacts” of a Covid case should only need to get a test and isolate while waiting for their results, a number of senior NSW ministers say. More than one in five Year 9 boys in the state still cannot meet the nati...

Work-shy young Aussies should have their welfare cut to force them off the sofa and into hospitality jobs, a sector that is desperate for workers. Senior ministers have reiterated their concerns over a proposed cashless gaming card that would be regulated by the government warning it would unnecessarily punish casual poker machine players. A lonely Christmas locked inside could still be a reality...

A $632 million extension to a western Sydney hospital will fail to increase it’s bed capacity when it opens next year, furious senior doctors have said. Secret mobile speed cameras have issued more fines and collected more money in the past 12 months than in the preceding five years Queensland Police expect as many as 60,000 cars to drive across the border with up to 500 officers needed to c...

Cameron Munster is like any young bloke who loves an afternoon at the pub, a beer and a punt. However, being a professional athlete, earning $20,000 a week, he has a lot more to lose. Anthony Albanese has signalled Labor won’t back the return of mass immigration ahead of next year’s election after the government revealed it wants to take 160,000 new migrants each year. Paying nearly $2...

The mother of Oatlands crash ­victim Veronique Sakr has lodged her nomination to become the ­Liberal candidate for the Sydney seat of Strathfield in her quest to ­become a  “voice for the voiceless”. Australia’s health insurance funds bid to charge customers higher premiums, has been rejected by the federal government.  Australian athletes at the Beijing Win...