Infrastructure NSW wants residents to comment on its review of Beaches roads What are your biggest road gripes on the Northern Beaches? Is it waiting to get onto Warringah Road from Allambie Road at 5pm? The endless, never-ending queue on Burnt...

Move comes as Scruby applies pressure for mandatory licence and registration Another Northern Beaches college has introduced a mandatory program for students who wish to ride e-bikes to school, as support grows for a licensing scheme. Students at St Luke’s Grammar School...

New buses are good news: but someone needs to drive them The NSW Government announced on 11 March that it was investing $56 million in 50 new Scania-Volgren articulated (bendy) buses. It also said it had purchased 10 new double decker...

Bill would make licence and registration mandatory Independent Pittwater MP Jacqui Scruby says the State Government must make e-bike licensing mandatory, and has introduced a bill in NSW Parliament to make it happen. Faced with increasing amounts of injuries, and even fatalities...

‘No animal should suffer the torture that Bo did’ Northern Beaches Council resolved to ban 1080 poison (sodium fluoroacetate) on council land at its meeting on 17 February, becoming just the third council in NSW to do so. It is legal to...

The State Government announced that patients will continue to have access to private services at Northern Beaches Hospital until 30 June 2027 to ensure continuity of care, patient safety and to maintain existing services for the community. This means that...

Non-compliant e-bikes to be seized and crushed The NSW Government is tackling illegal e-bikes with strengthened seizure and crushing powers. NSW Police will have expanded powers to remove ‘fat-bikes’ and other throttle-only devices that are fuelling anti-social behaviour, community frustration and...

Golf NSW mooted to take control of Cammeray Golf Club land North Sydney Council was ‘blindsided’ by the NSW Government’s announcement of its intention to revoke council’s control of Cammeray Park, home to Cammeray Golf Club, and transfer the role to...

Defence land grab ignites local furore Mosman Mayor Ann Marie Kimber has labelled a Department of Defence proposal to sell off part of HMAS Penguin ‘extremely concerning.’ In early February, Minister for Defence Richard Marles announced a defence estate audit had identified...