The Better Cities Initiative (BCI) is hosting a free public forum, ‘What’s Next for the Northern Beaches’, to explore how a citizen-led approach to housing, planning and development can create a more liveable, sustainable and equitable Northern Beaches, Sydney –...

Dakota Chanel can’t wait to take on the role of orphan Annie The stage is Dakota Chanel’s ‘happy place’, so she’s delighted to have been chosen as one of four children to share the lead role of Annie in the Broadway...

The Eramboo Artist Environment in Terrey Hills has announced Susie Dureau as their artist-in-residence for 2025. The six-month residency is taken on as a joint initiative between Eramboo and the Northern Beaches council, offering free non-residential studio space, a $3000 allowance...

Meet two local women quietly making a huge difference to the world around them as we mark International Women’s Day on 8 March Warning: This story discusses sexual abuse. If you need help, call Lifeline 13 11 14 BRENDA LIN Survivor and...

Maddy and Charlotte Harry are the youngest-ever winners of Channel 9’s The Block, earning a ‘life-changing’ $1.65 million. Editor in Chief Michelle Giglio caught up with the girls at Harbord Diggers to find out how they set themselves up for...

When buses replaced trams on the Northern Beaches, the community reacted The introduction of the tram to the Northern Beaches had a huge impact on the local community. It allowed for the residential development of what was a subsistence farming area. So...

Join Proveda for an evening of Inspiring Stories on Life and Death: A special storytelling night to launch the Compassionate Connector program, a three-year translational pilot jointly funded by Sydney North Health Network and The Wicking Trust. Loneliness and social isolation...

Local doctors and members of Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA) will be running a Health and Climate Community Forum at Avalon Surf Life Saving Club on 19 February at 7pm. DEA said they are seeing the impacts of our changing...

Helen Christensen is the NSW Scientist of the Year for 2024 Professor Helen Christensen from the University of NSW and the Black Dog Institute was recognised as the NSW Scientist of the Year in the Premier’s prizes for science and engineering...

BY ALEX DRISCOLL Turning food waste into compost earned David Lye the volunteer of the year Compost King is a name that has stuck with Newport resident David Lye rather unintentionally. The name arose when the Manchester-born import began volunteering at Brookvale’s...