The Sydney Morning Herald logo

Rouse Hill

Advertisement
Stabbing scene, Bruce Purser Reserve in Rouse Hills

People started screaming. Someone started filming. A boy vomited

Teens close to the brutal stabbing have recounted the moments leading up to a 17-year-old’s death in Sydney’s north-west this week.

  • Amber Schultz

Latest

**** PIC ED NOTE - FAMILY MUST BE PIXELLATED - IDENTIFICATION ISSUE *** The family of a second 15-year-old boy departs court in Parramatta, Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The boy has faced court charged with the stabbing murder of a 17-year-old, who died at a reserve in Sydney’s north-west. The teen was arrested at a home in Rouse Hill on Tuesday night with assistance from riot squad officers, hours after his 15-year-old co-accused faced court. Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald STABBING FAMILY COURT**** PIC ED NOTE - FAMILY MUST BE PIXELLATED - IDENTIFICATION ISSUE *** The family of a second 15-year-old boy departs court in Parramatta, Wednesday, 26 November 2025. The boy has faced court charged with the stabbing murder of a 17-year-old, who died at a reserve in Sydney’s north-west. The teen was arrested at a home in Rouse Hill on Tuesday night with assistance from riot squad officers, hours after his 15-year-old co-accused faced court. Photo: Sam Mooy / The Sydney Morning Herald

Second boy faces court over fatal stabbing of Sydney teenager

The parents of the 15-year-old dodged media outside the court after their son appeared charged with murder.

  • Jack Gramenz and Amber Schultz
The 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in Rouse Hill.

‘You don’t deserve this’: Girlfriend’s heartbreaking tribute after teen’s stabbing death

Alleged details of the 17-year-old’s stabbing were revealed when a 15-year-old boy appeared in court charged over his murder.

  • Amber Schultz, Riley Walter, Kayla Olaya, Perry Duffin, Jack Gramenz and Daniel Lo Surdo
A teenage boy has been fatally stabbed in Rouse Hill.

Boy, 15, charged with murder over ‘senseless’ stabbing death of teen behind Sydney school

The 17-year-old died after being stabbed in the leg during a confrontation between two groups of youths in the city’s north-west.

  • Daniel Lo Surdo, Riley Walter, Jack Gramenz, Kayla Olaya and Amber Schultz
Floral tributes have been left to a five-year-old girl hit and killed by a ute outside Rouse Hill Public School.

‘My heart breaks’: Tributes to girl hit and killed by ute outside Sydney school

Floral tributes to the five-year-old have been left at the gate of her primary school in the city’s north-west, where she was struck while riding her scooter.

  • David Barwell and Anthony Segaert
xx

‘Element of urgency’: Sydney’s median house price hits record $1.75m

Investors and home buyers who can borrow more money are competing hard, helping to push the city’s median house price up by $2000 a week.

  • Alice Uribe
Advertisement
Intergenerational wealth transfers could become the deciding factor of young people entering the housing market.

Sara’s parents own two homes, but she won’t buy until she’s 80. Here’s why

Young Sydneysiders on the wrong side of a $3.5 trillion wealth transfer are staring down decades of housing pain.

  • Kayla Olaya, Daniel Lo Surdo and Cindy Yin
A rolling GIF of artist’s impressions for the new Rouse Hill hospital, which is due to open around 2029.

This hospital will cost $700 million. There’ll be nowhere to have a baby

Locals in the Hills Shire were furious to discover that, when their new hospital eventually opens, it won’t have a birthing suite.

  • Angus Thomson
The Hills Shire

The Hills Shire Council: What your candidates said

There are 38 candidates seeking election on Saturday.

A man has died after a crash between a car and a bus in Rouse Hill.

Man dead, several in hospital after car and bus crash in Sydney’s north

A 60-year-old man is dead and several people injured, include a four-year-old child, after a collision in Rouse Hill.

  • Angus Dalton