Police are questioning a man over a double shooting at a used car yard in Sydney's south-west.

Organisers of the Sydney Festival say they are expecting about a quarter of a million people to come into the CBD tomorrow for the festival's first night.

A man and a woman have been arrested over what police have described as an elaborate operation involving the defrauding of retail stores.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is reviewing rival bids from smallgoods manufacturers interested in buying Hans Continental Smallgoods.

A man accused of murdering Sydney sex worker Rachael Campbell 10 years ago has been extradited from Western Australia.

A man in his early 30s has been killed and another shot in the neck in a shooting in Sydney's south-west.

New South Wales police have reopened the case of an elderly Czechoslovakian man who may have disappeared into the remote Kimberley.

Retired Wollongong scientist Dr Ann Young says he is concerned by BHP Billiton Illawarra Coal's approval to mine under Sydney's water catchment area.

Operations at the Oberon Timber Mill could be scaled back because of problems with a project to secure its water supply.

The body of Australian commando Greg Sher has been returned home after his death in Afghanistan.