Northern Beaches Council will lobby the State Government to reinstate the emergency services levy (ESL) subsidy which will cause a $3 million drain in its budget. The ESL is paid by councils and insurance companies to support emergency services in New...

The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is holding a coffee ‘walk and talk’ at Long Reef in Collaroy on Sunday 25 June. Take an opportunity to meet and get to know other ACF Northern Beaches members in a casual setting with a...

The New South Wales Government is inviting the public to provide feedback and comments on the NSW Skin Cancer Prevention Strategy. With the primary objective of reducing the incidence of skin cancer in the state, the strategy aims to implement...

Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) has said goodbye to it’s computerized tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET) scanner after 13 years of service and has said hello to a new state-of-the-art scanner. The old machinery has had good innings since...

Women struggling to cope with the severe effects of hyperemesis gravidarum in pregnancy will be provided with more support and care with the expansion of the MotherSafe telephone service. The debilitating condition causes severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy for about...

North Sydney Council aims to achieve the targets set out in its Environmental Sustainability Strategy 2030 to decarbonise the community and assist residents to live more sustainably. One of its plans includes a sustainability rebate scheme to assist residents and businesses...

The Draft Mosman / North Sydney / Willoughby Bush Fire Risk Management Plan (BFRMP) was released for public exhibition. The BFRMP aims to protect lives, properties, and the local way of life, and community feedback during this exhibition period to help...

Ausgrid has pulled the plug on a proposed community battery for Green Park in Cammeray, following a negative response from locals. The move follows a community consultation in April, with a large number of residents ‘angered’ by the proposal for such...

  A group of anaesthetists from Royal North Shore Hospital (RNSH) has been awarded funding as part of the NSW Health Sustainable Futures Innovation Fund. A team of anaesthetists will work alongside chemical engineers from The University of New South Wales (UNSW)...

In a move to repopulate the Royal National Park with platypus, Taronga Zoo staff have recently released several of monotremes who had been especially chosen for the program. Under the very first translocation program, the platypus were brought to Taronga Zoo’s...