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Sinkhole in Sydney CBD forces school to close
At least two trucks came to the rescue of a Coles delivery vehicle which crashed into the hole.
- Daniel Lo Surdo
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Flash flooding hits Sydney as heavy rain lashes the city
A slow-moving thunderstorm triggered almost 500 calls for assistance across the metropolitan region.
- Angus Dalton and Daniel Lo Surdo
Bull shark tagging program launched as Sydney braces for scorcher
Sydney beaches have re-opened as temperatures soar after many were closed following a spate of shark attacks.
- Chris Barrett
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For the first time, renewable energy is supplying most of our power
Renewables became the dominant energy supply for an entire quarter in the final three months of last year, helping the grid skate through the early days of a scorching summer.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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Sydney’s beaches closed, hundreds call for assistance as storm lashes coast
Slow-moving, dangerous thunderstorms are causing flash flooding in Sydney and the Central Coast.
- Julie Power and Nigel Gladstone
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Sydney to cop drenching after South Coast lashed by low
A hazardous low-pressure system will sweep into the city on Friday night, bringing heavy rains, wild thunderstorms and monster waves.
- Daniel Lo Surdo and Jack Gramenz
Big surf to reshape Sydney beaches after ‘wave drought’
A short-lived coastal storm will bring waves as high as four metres to the Sydney, Illawarra and South Coast, prompting a hazardous surf warning.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Sydney weather as it happened: Observatory Hill reaches 42.2 degrees amid extreme heatwave; firefighters battle flare-ups across NSW
The bureau has issued an alert for damaging winds along the Sydney coastline as a southerly buster arrives to provide relief after temperatures soared above 40 degrees.
- Patrick Begley and Kayla Olaya
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The official temperature was 42 degrees – but western Sydney felt as hot as 55 degrees
We measured how western Sydney’s urban fringe experienced Saturday’s heatwave. It was horrifying.
- Anthony Segaert
City swelters through hottest January day since Black Summer
The top of 42.2 degrees recorded at Observatory Hill was the equal-highest of the summer so far, while the state has been spared major bushfires for now.
- Patrick Begley, Christopher Harris, Kayla Olaya and Anthony Segaert