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Sydney-local Silke Raetze has taken home the 2025 Hornsby Art Prize.  This year, Silke’s painting ‘Green Tea with Alex’, a portrait of her fellow artist friend, was crowned the winner from a pool of 71 finalists. The Hornsby Art Prize is a national prize hosted by Hornsby Shire Council in...

The Saturday Lotto draw 4605 on 6 September 2025 saw each division one entry winning the prized $2.5 million. Across Australia eight division one entrants won—three each in NSW and Victoria, one in Queensland, and one in Tasmania. To celebrate, the Glenorie mum told officials she wasn’t going scrap cleaning...

  Dear Editor, In July 2025, Ku-ring-gai Council released the “New Community Strategic Plan for Ku-ring-gai.” Part of which reads, “The CSP is a long term, high level plan that outlines the community's vision and aspirations for the future of the area, including protecting the native environment, managing balanced growth...

Mosman Art Gallery has awarded the 2025 Mosman Art Prize to Mark Maurangi Carrol for his painting Blue Boat (crowd on the island of Magaia). Carrol's work reinterprets a 1900 photograph by Fredrick W.Sears, replacing the original crowd with a single modern figure—the artist's brother. This year’s prize was judged...

On Sunday, 21 September, the Ku-ring-gai Youth Orchestra (KYO) will present Whimsy & Wonder at Abbotsleigh’s Peter Duly Hall. The Ku-ring-gai Youth Orchestra is a vibrant community ensemble based on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. Welcoming high school students and beyond from schools and universities across the city, it provides a...

I want to sincerely thank everyone who reached out after my recent Facebook post about receiving ongoing threats from a volunteer associated with Julian Leeser’s team. Threats and intimidation have no place in our community. My focus remains on staying connected and continuing to work within the community I know...

Hornsby Shire Council has resolved to write to the NSW Minister for the Environment on the issue of Byles Creek Valley. In the August General Meeting, Councillor Nathan Tilbury brought forward a motion concerning the private property at 79-87 Malton Road, Beecroft. This parcel of land is ecologically dense and...

Community projects around the Willoughby electorate have been granted $450,000 in funding under the NSW Government’s 2025 Community Building Partnership Program. Fifteen projects are benefitting from the CBP Program. These include: Cammeray Public School and a playground upgrade Artarmon Public School and modern water station installations at Thompson Oval Chatswood Rangers Sports Club...

Advocacy from Member for Davidson, Matt Cross, has led to a confirmed four-wheel drive (4WD) ambulance to service the Ku-ring-gai and Northern Beaches local government areas. Following the deaths of two locals on the bush trails within Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, Mr Cross MP raised the issue at a parliamentary...

Five local councils are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Aboriginal Heritage Office (AHO). North Sydney, Ku-ring-gai, Lane Cove, Northern Beaches, and Willoughby Councils have renewed a five-year agreement to support the AHO’s work. Created in the late 1990s by North Sydney Council, the AHO partnership has been protecting and...