We're back for another year and looking forward to sharing Sydney stories, celebrating our local communities and delivering the latest news to you wherever you are listening.

All your favourites are returning to the airwaves (while some have already been keeping you company over summer during emergencies). Join Robbie and Wendy for Breakfast from 6am and get more James Valentine with an extended Afternoons program from 12.30-4pm.
 
Please make your new Evenings presenter Sarah Macdonald feel welcome, by sending her a text or calling in. She'll be with us from Monday-Thursday from 7pm every week.   

Before-and-after photos show the deep wounds catastrophic fires can leave in less than a fortnight. 
 

This ultimate veggie burger is inspired by the 'shroom burger from a popular American chain that ticks all the burger boxes — soft bun, plenty of umami, basic salad fixings and a finger-licking-good sauce. 
 

Will NSW orthopaedic surgeon Professor Munjed Al Muderis be this year’s Australian of the Year winner?
Join us on Saturday 25 January from 7.30pm on ABCTV + iview and local radio, as we celebrate 60 years of innovation, triumph and leadership and reveal this year’s Australian of the Year winner live from the National Arboretum in Canberra.

In an Australian first, a 400-litre bag of algae has been installed at a Sydney brewery to reduce carbon emissions and produce food, pharmaceuticals and even bio-plastic. 
 

Australia's top pollution experts are teaming up to propose a major new study into the long-term health impacts of bushfire smoke. 

In the middle of Australia's bushfire crisis, some faces have become familiar. RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons is one those. Another, standing to his right with a long salt-and-pepper beard, is Auslan interpreter Sean Sweeney. 
 
But advocates say news organisations are frequently cropping interpreters out of shot which can put the deaf community in danger. 

The reasons for choosing to go tiny range from reducing debt, inability to afford a conventional home, the search for sustainability, a life crisis, or even preparing for an uncertain future in the face of climate change by going off-grid.  
 
We look into what to consider when you want to downsize.