30 Dec 08 | Summer and New Year's party-goes should take care during the holiday season following an increase in drink and food spiking incidents.
27 Dec 08 | It will be cheaper and easier for families to use public transport for Sunday outings with the launch of 'Family Funday Sunday' by Premier Nathan Rees recently.
25 Dec 08 | Premier Nathan Rees sends his Christmas and New Year wishes to all western Sydney families.
24 Dec 08 | Health Minister John Della Bosca announced a new $5 million trial to address the growing problem of type 2 diabetes among the NSW adult population.
22 Dec 08 | Parks and "deadbeat" areas of green space in western Sydney need to be looked after and designed in different ways, Western Sydney Minister David Borger believes.
18 Dec 08 | Building Australia - $40 billion the national infrastructure strategy - has been so sliced and diced that it is now a shadow of its former self, and fading fast.
16 Dec 08 | JOHN Palmer Primary school at The Ponds may have only opened this year, but can already claim that four of its 68 students are published artists or authors.
16 Dec 08 | January 5 to 23
Kidz Blitz: School holidays at Blacktown Leisure Centre in Stanhope Gardens are guaranteed to be packed with excitement.
16 Dec 08 | MANY residents of the north-west received an early Christmas present last week.
16 Dec 08 | BETWEEN now and the start of 2009, Australia needs 250,000 blood donations and more than 40,000 new donors to register to help keep the nation healthy.
16 Dec 08 | BROOKE Kirkness is passionate about art and aims to have a colourful future. That hope may become a reality sooner than later.
16 Dec 08 | ONLY 32 per cent of Australians get Christmas organised in advance. Sixty-eight per cent leave everything to the last minute
16 Dec 08 | CHRISTMAS decorations have a very special meaning for the Smith family of Glenhaven.
16 Dec 08 | PARENTS at the Kellyville Central ABC Learning Centre will be forced into new child-care arrangements next year.
16 Dec 08 | ST Vincent de Paul Society and school students across The Hills are lending a hand this Christmas.
16 Dec 08 | STAFF at a Kellyville equipment hire centre are celebrating after receiving a surprise $3000 bonus.
16 Dec 08 | HIGHWAY Patrol officers are urging residents to be careful on the roads this holiday season.
16 Dec 08 | MOTORISTS from the public transport-starved north-west are among the biggest losers from increased congestion on Sydney's roads which has dramatically slowed travelling times.
16 Dec 08 | Merry Christmas: Glenis Sheldrick, sales manager of the Hills News and Northern News, presents Michelle Fryer, of Gilroy Catholic College with a $500 shopping voucher for Castle Towers.
16 Dec 08 | How do you wipe the blood from your hands when your drink driving or speed kills an innocent?