Why Australia is battling floods again
Some areas in New South Wales state have received a month's rain in the past two days, swelling rivers and forcing Sydney's main dam, the Warragamba Dam, to spill over the weekend.
A sense of normalcy settled over the city as cafes abandoned their takeout setups and opened their doors to customers and commuter trains ferried workers to the central business district.
Sydney prepares to emerge from 107-day COVID-19 lockdown
In the initial reopening stage, non-essential retail stores, pubs and gyms will be allowed to reopen to fully vaccinated patrons, with capacity limits.
Worst COVID-19 crisis yet risks erasing Australia’s pandemic gains
The situation is putting Australia — which had driven locally acquired cases to zero just a few months ago — in the worst of both worlds.
'We are not the virus': Two-tier delta lockdowns divide Sydney
Harsher restrictions and tougher policing in Sydney's most-affected neighborhoods have stoked resentment in its most vulnerable people.
Sydney readies for the army as lockdown fails to squash delta outbreak
Sydney's poorest neighborhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city's toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The city ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned nonessential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office.
Australia extends New South Wales lockdown as COVID-19 spreads in Sydney
The harbor city of 5 million residents entered an initial two-week lockdown in late June, as the delta variant took hold in a country that has otherwise largely avoided mass infections.
Downtown Sydney to enter lockdown after spike in delta variant cases
Authorities have struggled to contain a spike in the highly contagious delta COVID-19 virus variant in the city.
Sydney residents banned from leaving city as coronavirus cluster grows
Australia's largest city of Sydney re-introduced "soft touch" COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday to contain a widening outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, mandating masks in offices while neighboring states closed their borders. New Zealand raised the alert level in its capital of Wellington over ...
Exhibition commemorating Japanese A-bomb sites opens in Australia
The displays include one of four paper cranes made by U.S. President Barack Obama on his visit to Hiroshima in 2016.
Sydney's wildfire smoke declared a 'public health emergency'
The smoke blanketing Sydney is a "public health emergency," according to a coalition of Australian doctors and researchers who say climate change has helped fuel the wildfires that have produced the unprecedented haze. Air pollution across Australia's most-populous city and parts of the eastern state ...
