by Sam Magnusson | Dec 12, 2023 | News, Priority
Today we mourn the loss of an extraordinary member of the Hawkesbury community, firefighter Michael Kidd. Michael paid the ultimate price while battling a house fire at Grose Vale, north-west of Sydney earlier today. He was known as a kind and selfless man who had...
by Sam Magnusson | Dec 12, 2023 | News, Priority
In a tragic incident this morning, a 51-year-old on-call firefighter lost his life while responding to a fire at a luxury Airbnb in Grose Vale. Emergency services were dispatched around 8 am to Grose Vale Road, Grose Vale, following reports of a house fire, located...
by Sam Magnusson | Dec 10, 2023 | News, Priority
Almost 500 properties in Richmond were left without power for six hours yesterday during the peak of the searingly hot day which saw temperatures soar over 43 degrees. Hawkesbury residents are facing the prospect of further blackouts as extreme heat conditions are...
by Sam Magnusson | Dec 10, 2023 | News, Priority
Federal Member for Macquarie Susan Templeman has referred the spraying of her office in Windsor Saturday night with pro-Palestine graffiti to the Australian Federal Police but has reasserted her long-standing support for the Palestinian people. Templeman’s is the...
by Sam Magnusson | Dec 9, 2023 | News, Priority
Western Sydney experienced a day of extreme heat, with temperatures soared to a scorching 43.5 degrees at Penrith, just shy of the forecasted 44-degree peak. The Hawkesbury region, accustomed to warm days, found its residents up and about early in the morning,...
by Sam Magnusson | Dec 8, 2023 | News, Priority, Top News
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION When Lower Portland Ferry contractor Tono Group wrote to Hawkesbury City Council’s (HCC) procurement officer Gordon Sainsbury on July 11 this year, it was clear that council had no idea that its contract expired barely three weeks later. HCC had...