The Hills Shire Council has continued its campaign to have the RAAF Base at Richmond used as a ...
"We should act now": Mayor presses for commercial airport at Richmond
Featured News
Featured News
Featured News
Featured News
Featured News
Local News
Blacktown’s carers for the elderly rewarded
Western Sydney children encouraged to walk to school
Less traffic. More time. Fresh air. These are some of the benefits of Walk Safely to School Day.
Autumn in the Hills
Images of trees during autumn.
Blacktown pensioners to get power help
New schools to open in The Ponds
Glenwood ironman targets bullies
5 Seconds Of Summer announce Australian tour
Wanderers and Eels fight for better facilities at Parramatta Stadium
Woman missing from North St Marys found safe and well
A woman reported missing from North St Marys earlier this week has been found safe and well.
Latest News
Network News
Seven-year-old trades sex for cigarettes, court told
A LAUNCESTON man taught his daughter, 7, how to smoke so he could trade cigarettes for sexual favours, ...
Weekend trivia: Mega quiz
It's the weekend. Time to kick back, relax and spend time with family and friends. But first, try ...
MEGA GALLERY: The week in pictures
Take a photo tour across the Fairfax regional network to see the week in photos.
Local Sport
Eels players Morgan and Allgood resigned
Parramatta Eels youngsters Mitchell Allgood and Ryan Morgan have received a vote of confidence from their coach Ricky ...
Wanderers sign Tomi Juric
Popular
National
Barnaby Joyce's Senate replacement named
The good wife who paid a high price
Hazel Hawke's life of courage came at a huge cost.
Army takes to the streets to battle poverty
More than 100,000 volunteers will spend this weekend knocking on doors to help the Salvation Army address Australia's rising rate ...
Doubling of indigenous in prisons alarms leaders
Aboriginal leaders have warned of a crisis in the justice system with an explosion in the black prison population, a ...
Health
HypnoBirthing isn't a hippie thing - just ask Kate
Word is that Kate Middleton is considering HypnoBirthing when she delivers the new heir to the throne.
Growing abuse of Xanax leads to restrictions
The growing abuse of the commonly prescribed anxiety and insomnia drug alprazolam has led the peak body for drug regulation ...
A surprising tactic to fight anorexia
Research suggests anorexia sufferers may fare better if doctors stop trying to get them to gain weight and ...
Lifestyle secrets of the world's healthiest countries
Australia is up there with the world's fattest countries. What are the thinner, healthier countries doing right?
Featured Promotions
Community
Parklea market plans a worry for its neighbours
Glenwood residents are worried Parklea Markets could be bought by an investor with the money to make Con ...
Training opportunities
Computer and first aid training opportunities are available around town this week, starting with NBN training this afternoon.
Learn2 out of financial trouble
Gap in social network
Entertainment
Looking the part
Noomi Rapace shows again in crime thriller Dead Man Down that she is the ultimate chameleon.
A tiger by the tail
Bill Westenhofer won an Oscar for best visual effects for his extraordinary work bringing the digital tiger Richard ...
Lifting the veil on carnal love
In James Salter's fiction, true carnal love is like an ''assassin'', both exalting and abasing the ''victims'' of its ''violent ...
Privilege, parties and Maharajahs
'Can a duck swim?'' is evidently a polite version of what bears do in the woods.
Life & Style
Bouris fired up over low-fee super
Mark Bouris' Yellow Brick Road is hoping to capture a slice of the $1.5 trillion in superannuation savings ...
Daily horoscopes: Friday, May 24
Read Alison Moroney's daily stars for Friday May 24, 2013.
How to have a functional family
Having a connected family is beneficial to a child's sense of identity and the parents and the extended ...
Time to drop the body labels?
Opinion: Why we should stop calling models larger than sample size 'curvy', 'voluptuous' and worst of all... 'real ...
Classifieds
Buy, sell & exchange
Garage sales, Pets, Computers, Building materials and more...
Announcements
Births, Engagements, Marriages, Deaths, Funerals, In Memoriam and more...
Notices
Auctions, Legal Notices, Businesses for Sale and more...
Trades & services
Plumbers, Accountants, Electricians and more...
Opinion
Back when it was called a thunderbox
Writer Donna Kelly can't remember nightmen but she sure knows a lot about dunnies - even that they ...
Live life to the fullest
Funerals can be wonderful celebrations of life, writer Donna Kelly shares.
Labor sets a booby-trap as it heads for the door
Trap. Wedge. Trick. Ploy. All these words have been used to describe Wayne Swan's latest federal budget.
Uni reform to hurt students
Four in five university students must work to support their studies, juggling an average of 16 hours of ...
The waiting game
Donna Kelly, like most people, wishes doctors had more time in the day to treat their patients.
The sober truth
Travel
Flight test: Cathay Pacific business class
Flight crew member Fiona introduced herself with a smile before offering a welcoming glass of Deutz champagne.
Chopstick revolution
In the past decade, this Chinese hub has become one of the world's great culinary cities. Brian Johnston ...
No kidding on long-haul flights
ABC Television's Gardening Australia presenter Jane Edmanson will be at the helm of a tour and cruise to ...
Deals: Capella on Lord Howe Island
The Cool Capella Deal includes seven nights' accommodation for the price of six, two return flights.