10/10/2008 | A ST MARYS woman died after the car she was travelling in crashed into a Werrington shopfront yesterday.
10/10/2008 | This week's unprecedented interest rate cut should prompt buyers to return to the property market, especially in western Sydney, says RP Data research director Tim Lawless.
8/10/2008 | I'M WRITING from Newcastle on Tyne, England.
It's an arresting time to be here.
7/10/2008 | Work-for-the-dole participants officially graduated with recognised skills at a ceremony in Whalan last Tuesday.
7/10/2008 | A woman, 33, has been charged following an assault which left a man with serious fractures in Whalan on Thursday night.
7/10/2008 | A digital revolution has started at Bethel Christian School in Mount Druitt. The school now has a second computer laboratory.
7/10/2008 | The NSW Government is holding its first Community Cabinet meeting in St Marys today (October 7), giving local families the chance to meet Premier Nathan Rees and other Labor MPs.
7/10/2008 | St Marys medical student Sinthu Sithamparanathan was recently awarded Best Presentation by a Student.
7/10/2008 | They are the helpless victims of the real estate climate, surrendered to the pound by owners battling it out for rental properties.
7/10/2008 | A new residential area with 1247 mixed dwellings and a town centre is to be built between Penrith and St Marys and plans are now on display.
7/10/2008 | Creating jobs, making council more user-friendly, giving fairer parking warnings and devising an even more efficient development application system top the priority list of new first-time Penrith Mayor Jim Aitken.
7/10/2008 | Police are investigating the case of a dead dog found hanging from a tree in the RAAF Memorial Park, Mt Druitt, on September 30.
7/10/2008 | Blacktown Council chose Labor councillor Charlie Lowles as new mayor at its meeting last Wednesday.
7/10/2008 | Meningococcal disease has struck in western Sydney during the past week, with two out of three cases from St Clair.
7/10/2008 | Emerton Leisure Centre has been named as Small Swim School of the Year (NSW) at the 2008 Austswim NSW Water Safety Awards on September 25.
7/10/2008 | THE footy, the farcical state of NSW politics and, oh, the global financial crisis meant the 100th anniversary of the first T-model Ford slipped by this week without much attention.
6/10/2008 | St Marys and Mt Druitt commuters are in the firing line, with western Sydney travellers among the hardest hit under recommendations by the state's pricing tribunal of train fare increases of up to 40 per cent.
3/10/2008 | Private bus services in western Sydney now offer weekly bus tickets. From the beginning of October these tickets have been sold in areas including Penrith, Blacktown and Parramatta.
30/09/2008 | IT'S been a whirlwind week and month that St Marys swimmer Peter Leek will never forget. In the space of three weeks, he's become a triple Paralympic gold medallist, walked along the Great Wall of China, graduated from Colyton High School and celebrated his 20th birthday at the AFL grand final in Melbourne.
30/09/2008 | POLICE are telling parents to keep an eye on their children during these school holidays and make them aware of the concepts of stranger dangers.