Coogee
The Sydney beaches where free parking will soon be scrapped
Parking meters will be installed at many of the few remaining eastern suburbs beaches with free parking in a council proposal, but locals will not have to pay.
- Jessica McSweeney
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Developer beats nine others for $15m block of Coogee beach units
The Art Deco building attracted 10 registered parties at auction for what the agent described as a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity.
- Carmen Forward
‘Totally fine but unremarkable’: The verdict on Rick Stein’s Sydney seafood restaurant
There are some hits, some misses and fake olive trees at the signature Coogee Beach venture by the beloved British celebrity chef.
- Callan Boys
Coogee beach has a poo-ception problem … best steer clear
Poo on the beach, in the ocean and even in the ice-cream. You’d think a place so besmirched by bad press would keep the crowds away.
- Helen Pitt
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- Emergency services
Search scaled back at Coogee for popular local bartender
Rescue teams have scaled back their search on Saturday morning for a Nepalese man swept out to sea at Coogee Beach on New Year’s Day.
- Daniel Lo Surdo, Ben Cubby and Jack Gramenz
- Opinion
- Water safety
People are drowning because beach flags are too hard to understand
Large numbers of visitors to Australia misinterpret the signs, with deadly consequences. The warnings need to be clearer.
- Samuel Cornell and Masaki Shibata
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- Christmas
No arrests after 15,000 backpackers, expats leave ‘pigsty’ at Christmas Day bash
A clean-up operation lasted until the early hours of Boxing Day after the annual festive bash moved from Bronte.
- Kayla Olaya, Daniel Lo Surdo and Jack Gramenz
From Cornwall to Coogee: Rick Stein’s new restaurant showcases his most loved dishes
His first Sydney venue opens today, and on the menu is Cornish-style fish and chips, French-style lobster thermidor and a heady Singapore blue swimmer crab.
- Erina Starkey
Coogee Diggers boss cops serve from judge as club eyes Paddo RSL takeover
A proposed deal in which the Paddington institution would be turned over to the beachside club has divided the community in one of Sydney’s most elite suburbs.
- Chris Barrett
‘The worst thing that’s ever happened’: Richard Roxburgh on renovating
After years of starring in Hollywood films, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh has a new role – and it’s not what you’d expect.
- Caroline Zielinski