Urban Development and Planning

The retail giant is using development fast-track schemes to push ahead with new supermarket and apartment projects opposed by local councils.

Motorists will be able to use the first 4-kilometre stretch of the new Coomera Connector as an alternative to the busy Pacific Motorway from Tuesday.

With the population heading toward 1 million, the Gold Coast is being urged to overhaul its transport system or risk becoming defined by traffic.

It's the biggest upgrade to Melbourne's rail network in more than 40 years, and it's arrived — the long-awaited Metro Tunnel, along with its five new inner-city stations, opens to the public.

While new swimming areas have opened along the river in recent years, an election promise to open a Western Sydney location has stalled.

An expert planning panel has defended their scathing assessment of Hobart's proposed Macquarie Point stadium while speaking to the politicians who will ultimately decide the project's fate. 

Roger Cook declares he has "industrial FOMO" and wants to take every opportunity to bring big projects to the state, as WA's peak legal body slams proposed new laws aimed at fast-tracking development. 

Possibly the longest ever wedding ceremony is now over for former prime minister Tony Abbott, after Scott Marsh's mural was painted over.

For decades Tokyo held the title of the most populous city on the planet. Yet the Indonesian and Bangladeshi capitals have overtaken the Japanese megacity.

Locals are frustrated by hold-ups with a long-awaited shopping strip in Mt Atkinson, in Melbourne's major growth corridor in the west.

The deputy premier accuses the Town of Victoria Park of lying to ratepayers over the controversial $217 million entertainment and sporting precinct in Burswood. 

Protesters against a proposed stadium in Hobart says they "don't want the waterfront transformed into Disneyland" and urge parliament's upper house to scrap the project.

The path is cleared for a controversial racetrack to be built in Perth after Western Australia's environmental watchdog decides against launching a formal project assessment.

The biggest change to Brisbane's bus network came into effect in June. Here's how people have been using buses since then. 

Western Australians must shake off their aversion to apartment living and embrace high-density housing solutions to support population growth across the metropolitan area, the state government says.

Emmaly and David Gridley were shocked to learn their rural property had been mistakenly valued at $2.3 million, leaving them with a heavily inflated land tax bill.

Eleven flood buyback homes sell without a reserve price in the NSW Northern Rivers, with more to hit the market before the end of the year.

A 120-year-old tree is set to be removed to make way for a new intersection in the Bunbury suburb of Glen Iris, but a great-grandmother says she will be devastated to see it go.

The Town of Victoria Park has revealed nearly 50 trees were removed without authorisation during redevelopment works to a park and adjacent hospitality precinct, and says it is investigating what went wrong.

An inner-north Melbourne council votes against an application from the fast food giant, which is seeking to open a 24-hour outlet on a popular shopping strip that was once named the world's coolest street.