Lithgow
‘FIFO playground for the rich’: Tensions soar over luxury resort’s helicopter plan
Tourism, road failures and the community have collided over a contentious transport plan by a luxury retreat in the Blue Mountains.
- David Barwell
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The hour-long Blue Mountains detour causing trouble for beloved Zig Zag Railway
The closure of the Great Western Highway at Victoria Pass poses a new challenge for the historic attraction and its loyal volunteers.
- Emily Kaine
The controversial plans for a stunning natural landscape two hours from Sydney
Will a glamping resort in the Gardens of Stone near Lithgow be a great new ecotourism drawcard or destroy the very thing the conservation reserve is meant to protect?
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
‘Colossal’ pollution spikes in Sydney’s drinking water catchment
The environmental watchdog has issued a clean-up notice to the operator of a coal mine near Lithgow over pollution in a river which flows into Warragamba Dam.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Infamous Sydney child killer stabbed to death in jail
Aymen Terkmani was serving a lengthy sentence for an attack deemed “brutal and horrific” by the judge, with injuries “too numerous to list and too gruesome to describe”.
- Jessica McSweeney and Sally Rawsthorne
Man who allegedly used hidden cameras to film women to remain behind bars
Police allege a man set up hidden cameras in a bedroom at a Lithgow home to film women without their consent during intimate acts.
- Nigel Gladstone
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Thank you, Mr Dutton. With Lithgow going nuclear, the Shamrocks are daring to dream
The old Lithgow Shamrocks rugby league players are prepared, pro bono, to get involved. One has already googled “how to build a nuclear power plant”.
- 'Rampaging' Roy Slaven
The Coalition is gambling on nuclear. Towns such as Lithgow are ground zero
Lithgow once had a brewery, picture palace and six pubs. Now it has dozens of empty shopfronts.
- Eryk Bagshaw and Max Maddison
The Blue Mountains’ historic train is steaming again
After being mothballed for 11 years, the return of the historic Zig Zag Railway last year has been met with packed carriages and waving fans.
- Caroline Gladstone
- Updated
- Tragedy
Family pay tribute to ‘loving and devoted father’ after Lithgow crash
Two people died and 15 were injured in the horror crash attended by more than 80 emergency personnel.
- Angus Thomson and Amber Schultz