The restrictions have been introduced for Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour.

New South Wales has entered a new phase of reduced COVID restrictions. Household close contact rules have been scrapped in ...

People in Sydney, Australia’s biggest city, ignored grey skies and drizzle on Monday to celebrate the end of almost four months of lockdown as fully vaccinated people were allowed once again to get ...

An inquiry into the NSW government's handling of the pandemic has been told people in west and southwest Sydney have been made to feel like criminals in their own homes.

Two friends celebrate Freedom Day in Sydney after 106 days in lockdown. (Getty) Hotel Manager Alex Marton prepares a bar area ahead of receiving patrons at the Kings Cross Hotel in Sydney's east.

A number of countries in Asia are poised to tighten COVID-19 restrictions amid a surge in coronavirus cases. In South Korea, health officials on Saturday reported 323 new cases — the 16th consecutive ...

Rachel Pannett is a former deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal's Sydney bureau.