North Sydney News

Ports Day 2009 in Sydney was a milestone event. Among other things, it served to crystallize exciting and economically significant plans for port development.

GOVERNMENT charges in the form of higher car parking levies, land taxes and council rates are adding to office occupancy costs in Sydney.

Investor losses in Westpoint could be recovered through the professional indemnity insurance of a financial planner that encouraged clients to invest in the group, a court has found.

Many of the most expensive parking spots are in financial centres. Clancy Yeates July 8, 2009 SYDNEYSIDERS who park in the central business district pay even more for the privilege than motorists in global hubs such as New York and Tokyo, a new study shows.

Former Sydney Swans star and AFL coach Daryn Cresswell has been arrested and charged with six counts of fraud, and now faces extradition to Queensland.

A woman driver accused of running down and killing a pedestrian after an altercation in the early hours of June 7 last year was found to have had a blood alcohol content of .141 after the incident and had consumed cannabis, ecstasy and other drugs beforehand, Sydney's Central Local Court heard today.

WITH MORE than $10 billion worth of office towers said to be on the market, the past financial year was one of the quietest with the Sydney CBD recording only $418,256,000 71 per cent lower than the 2007-08 year.

Marine Atlantic's newest addition, MVAtlantic Vision had a close call as it was departing Port aux Basques Monday evening for North Sydney.

The Atlantic Vision veered off course and almost struck the dock in Port aux Basques on Monday evening.

Sydneysiders have long complained about traffic congestion in the nation's largest city.

The Cape Breton Post "Why did you take a picture of your feet?" It was a valid question and the woman asking it had obviously seen me standing at the end of the 100-foot wide bridge of the Atlantic Vision, the newest ship to operate on the Gulf ferry service between North Sydney and Port aux Basques.

PARKING offenders beware: a drive-by spy camera, which electronically scans the position of parked cars is being trialled in Australia.

Support for M.I.A. and Daft Punk ... Anna Lunoe is hot in Australian and the US.

MOST of Sydney's new suburbs are carved from scrub or farmland on the city's suburban fringe, but the latest addition to the list is within sight of the Opera House.

After a short reprieve from fuel surcharges, Marine Atlantic will bring back the additional fee in July.

SHOTS have been fired during a robbery of cash-in-transit security guards on Sydney's northside early today.

He's not only talking the talk, he's walking the walk. The admittedly overweight John Malcom, CEO of the Cape Breton district health authority, has decided to get healthier this summer by riding a bicycle to promote active living in Cape Breton.

SYDNEY is the most expensive city in which to park a car in the Asia-Pacific region and is about to become even more costly as operators move to recoup a 110per cent rise in government levies.

The much anticipated Thunder in the Highlands custom motorcycle has arrived in Cape Breton.

Waterside Restaurant, the newest dining room in North Sydney, should help attract residents and visitors to Archibald Wharf.