Paulina Vidal

Artemios Mintzas, 60, will appear in a Sydney court charged over an alleged shooting spree that shut down an inner-west suburb for about two hours on Sunday night.

The helicopter that crashed near Bankstown Airport, killing the instructor and hospitalising the teenage student-pilot, was owned by well-known operator Bankstown Helicopters.

The twin brother of shark victim Mercury Psillakis has led hundreds of surfers in a paddle out in his memory on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

Using outdoor public spaces for events and venues has been made easier in NSW under changes to development applications.

A bus driver is among 11 people hospitalised after a bus and a car crash on the M2 at Macquarie Park in what emergency responders described as a "complex incident".

Eight men and one woman have been charged across with more than 30 online child abuse offences during a two-week child protection blitz.

Sydney Football Stadium at Moore Park will shut for 10-weeks to undergo fixes to its drainage, which has for months been impacting the playing field.

NSW rail unions have negotiated a pay rise with the state government for 12 per cent over three years plus back pay. 

Five armed men, dressed in black kidnapped a mother from her family home in Bankstown while her two sons watched on, with the younger one also subjected to violence.

Landmark inner-west Sydney pub, The Imperial, has been recognised not just because of "the building but what happened inside".