Fresh from taking out second place in a prestigious state-wide talent search, three Blue Mountains teenagers will tackle the inner city music scene in Petersham Bowling Club’s Battle of the Bands this Saturday, May 18.
Get ready Katoombans — a cafe in your town will be open for 48 consecutive hours from midday on Friday, May 24 to shine a spotlight on the issue of depression and raise funds for the Black Dog Institute.
The staff at Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre is at their wit’s end following a spate of recent vandalism, raising the prospect of investigating CCTV to combat the problem.
A fully-laden double fuel tanker overturned in a short, straight, three-laned section of the highway between Katoomba and Medlow Bath in the early hours of Sunday, May 12.
Almost 13 years after her brother Blake died, aged just 30, Katoomba resident Becky Avenell lost another young family member, her 18-year-old daughter Paris who died suddenly on October 20, 2012.
The State Government ordered the people involved in the modern-day crossing of the Blue Mountains to keep many of their campsite locations secret because they didn’t want the public to visit them.
Twelve-year-old Bullaburra resident Monique Sciberras added to her impressive credentials as a martial arts competitor by winning a silver medal at the Muay Thai World Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand last month.
According to the World Bank and Unicef, almost half the world (over three billion people) live on less than $2.50 a day — and more than 22,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Residents of Godson Avenue in Blackheath woke up last Thursday morning, looked out the window and thought to themselves “is that a bird, is that a plane?”.
Three explorers, four servants, horses, dogs, even the haze and chill of an autumn morning. The scene of Saturday’s launch of the Blue Mountains Blue Wave re-enactment walk was almost a replica of the famed Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth trek of 1813.
