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The Wanda Beach Murders remain one of Australia's most haunting and unsolved cases.

Como rapidly grew from a farming settlement to a village when the Illawarra Railway came through in the mid 1880s.

By Matt Murphy Read more on Marrickville Thomas Holt was born in England in 1811 and entered his family’s wool merchant business upon...

If you’re looking for things that go bump in the night, you’re barking up the wrong tree. We’re talking about Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of...

The memorial to the Dunbar tragedy in Camperdown Cemetery, Newtown, honours the victims of one of Australia's worst maritime disaster.

More on Crows Nest BY ALEC SMART Balls Head, the peninsula between Berrys Bay, to the east, and Balls Head Bay, to the west (opposite Balmain on the north side of Sydney Harbour), has a fascinating history. Unlike neighbouring Berry Island Reserve (which, confusingly, is in Balls Head Bay, not Berrys Bay), Balls Head was never an island. (Berry Island, once linked to the foreshore by a sandy spit submerged by high tide, was in-filled and joined to the mainland in 1926 when it

Emmeline ‘Freda’ Du Faur was a pioneering mountain climber and avid bushwalker, who spent the last years of her life in Dee Why and Collaroy

A history of how the St Ives Showground was used in Word War II.

The massacre of the Woolloomooloo Rose in Surry Hills, Sydney.

The Hopetoun Hotel in Surry Hills has a storied history.

The history of Balmain, Sydney, including why it was almost named Gilchrist.

More on Sydney CBD The events leading to Vera Sterling's murder remain a mystery to this day. Men in grey suits and felt hats -...

Uncover 235 years of Sydney Ferries - a story of innovation, rivalry, and resilience on the harbour. By Alec Smart The History of Sydney...

The Vicars Woollen Mill history on the site of what now is the Metro Shopping Centre.

The establishment and early days of Newtown.

More on Crows Nest In the dimly lit engineering workshop in Crows Nest, the lifeless body of Charles Louis le Gallien lay sprawled on the...

More on Crows Nest Visitors to St Thomas’ Rest Park in West St, Crows Nest, will be familiar with the 4.5 metre high pyramid in a...

The story of the Tom Uglys Bridge which is a NSW Heritage-listed dual crossing spanning the Georges River in Sydney’s south.

The circular trek from Dee Why SLSC via Long Reef Headland and Fishermans Beach, is approx 7km with amazing views and history.

The St Ives preparatory campus of Sydney Grammar School began teaching students in 1954, when St Ives was transitioning from a fruit-growing