1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (599+ words) August 4, 2026 — 5:30am The Sydney Opera House will receive an $120 million upgrade over the next four years to renew critical infrastructure, modernise ageing venue technology and replace 150 concrete beams, slabs and piers sitting in a tidal zone beneath the World Heritage masterpiece....

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (831+ words) As the city evolves and old makes way for new, this tiny pocket of Newtown is serving as another example of a generational changing of the guard. When a 24/7 study cafe took over the site of the former Gould’s Books…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (823+ words) August 1, 2026 — 5:00am David Griffith, a yachtsman and intellectual property law veteran, and his wife, Penny, have put their Elizabeth Bay secondary home on the market with a price guide of $21 million to $23 million. The three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse apartment is in the…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (797+ words) July 31, 2026 — 5:00am When Josh Terrett and Charlotte Ekas walked into a rundown North Sydney terrace, the former reality TV contestants instantly fell in love. The property at 23 West Street was built around 1883 and hadn’t been touched in decades. But the couple…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (989+ words) July 29, 2026 — 5:00am The first development on William Street under new council guidelines is set to be heard by state planning officials, but locals living in nearby heritage homes fear it is the beginning of the end for their humble precinct. An…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (396+ words) July 25, 2026 — 1:30pm Seventeen of western Sydney’s tallest, oldest and weirdest buildings will be opened to the public next month as part of a major expansion of the Sydney Open series. Constructed from as early as 1799 in the middle of Parramatta Park…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (789+ words) July 24, 2026 — 5:00am Among the myriad paintbrushes, paints, tools, musical instruments and personal effects scattered around the floor of Brett Whiteley’s former studio stands a battered green wicker chair. “Nobody’s allowed to sit in there,” says Wendy Whiteley, former wife, art patron…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) July 22, 2026 — 12:04pm Some 39 storeys above Central Station, roads and rail lines radiate like scattered spaghetti between the Lego-like blocks of Sydney’s rooftops, extending to almost every point of the compass until meeting the blue horizon of ocean and harbour, and mountains....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (805+ words) July 22, 2026 — 11:30am Radio broadcaster Ray Hadley bought his new apartment in the unusually shaped block called Lacebark in Sydney’s north-west overlooking his golf club because it was “convenient, and across the road from the hospital”. Downsizing from a town house in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (826+ words) July 22, 2026 — 5:00am The morning after a ferocious bushfire tore through a NSW South Coast community, architect Adriano Pupilli returned to find out what was left of his holiday cottage and the innovative prefab flatpack bush cabin he’d invented, designed and built…...