Recently, seven Blue Mountains Youth Councillors were given the opportunity to visit Warragamba Dam and Burragorang Lookout with members of the Blue Mountains City Council Healthy Waterways Team and Gundungurra Elder, Aunty Sharyn Halls.

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Bushcare at Blue Mountains City Council, and they celebrated in style at their annual Bushcare Awards, held on Saturday 29 October. 

Blue Mountains City Council has welcomed victory in the campaign to stop the proposal to fill Bell Quarry with waste material.

Blue Mountains Mayor, Cr Mark Greenhill has slammed the announcement by the NSW Government today to declare the dam wall raising project state significant. 

This Sunday, 31 July is National Tree Day. With around 300,000 people around the country involved, it is Australia’s largest community tree planting and nature care event.

Blue Mountains City Council is devastated, but not surprised, by the facts revealed in the recently released Australia State of the Environment (SoE) 2021. 

Blue Mountains Mayor, Councillor Mark Greenhill has supported his Wollondilly counterpart, Mayor Matt Gould, in calling for sensible discussion around flood mitigation, following the most recent natural disaster.

Council is planting hundreds of trees across three locations in the lower Blue Mountains to combat increased temperatures associated with loss of tree canopy cover.

Blue Mountains Bushland Nursery Incentive is Council’s free accreditation scheme to prevent the sale of invasive priority weeds within our Local Government Area and is supported by the Nursery & Garden Industry NSW & ACT.

Council has extended its commitment to a sustainable Blue Mountains with a new electric vehicle (EV) charging station planned for Lawson.