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Clover Moore at Sydney Town Hall

Clover’s vision: Town Hall Square will be George Street on steroids

According to Sydney’s lord mayor, the new Town Hall Square will transform the city. There’s just one obstacle in the way.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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78ers Rebbell Barnes and Karl Zlotkowski, who marched in the first Mardi Gras.

Karl marched in the first Mardi Gras. News this week took him back to that night

Amid reports of violent hate crimes against LGBTQ people, the parade defiantly – and fabulously – turns 48 on Saturday.

  • Kayla Olaya and Cindy Yin
Render showing the new design for the Woolworths building opposite Sydney Town Hall.

The radical alternative to Sydney’s $150m civic square plan

The City of Sydney is forging ahead with divisive plans to bulldoze seven buildings to create a sprawling plaza opposite Town Hall.

  • Julie Power and Megan Gorrey
Board disputes and financial woes have hit Mardi Gras hard.

Surprises, shocks and sequins: Inside the fight for the future of Mardi Gras

As Mardi Gras approaches its 48th year, it’s facing internal divisions, funding crises and cancellations.

  • Kayla Olaya
Rozlyn de Bussey and the QVB glass panels she cut as a young apprentice.

Rozlyn hand-cut 73,000 pieces of glass for the QVB. Now the landlord wants some removed

Rozlyn de Bussey was a young apprentice when she embarked on a two-year-long effort to restore the QVB in the 1980s.

  • Cindy Yin
Police officers carry long-arm guns around the foreshore.

Heightened security leads to 38 arrests as Sydney NYE crowd numbers dip

Sydney was mostly on its best behaviour, but police still had their hands full on New Year’s Eve, including a man allegedly carrying a shisha pipe resembling a gun in Dover Heights.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Aidan Elwig Pollock
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Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore on the rooftop of 25hours Hotel The Olympia, opening in October.

Heavily armed police at NYE a result of Bondi ‘regret’: Moore

Lord Mayor Clover Moore said the presence of heavily armed police was the state government’s way of making people feel safe after a lack of preparedness at Bondi.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Emily Kaine
Workers are spaced five to ten metres apart to pass equipment in a “production line”.

Nine tonnes of explosives and 1332 steps: Inside Sydney’s high-stakes Harbour Bridge fireworks mission

At the summit of the Harbour Bridge, the installation of Sydney’s iconic fireworks are a complex equation involving six kilometres of cables, nine tonnes of explosives and 40,000 fireworks.

  • Cindy Yin
Cleanup workers are seen undertaking maintenance on a leaked sewerage pipe in Wentworth Park, Sydney, Friday, 5 December 2025. Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald

Fears sewage leak from cracked pipe could flow into Sydney Harbour

Emergency works are under way to repair damage nine metres beneath an inner-city Sydney suburb.

  • Cindy Yin
Fireworks on Sydney Harbour ushering in 2025 last New Year’s Eve. This year’s display will involve nine tonnes of fireworks.

Nine tonnes of fireworks to light up Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve

The City of Sydney expects more than 1 million people to watch the fireworks from 50 free viewing points, in addition to hundreds of thousands at home.

  • Siena Fagan