Fernando Rezende Silveira, 44, has been unable to get a clear diagnosis for more than a year, despite tests by doctors in Australia and overseas. His condition has left him largely reliant on a wheelchair and has stopped the couple's dancing and travel. Doctors have given a provisional diagnosis of seronegative autoimmune encephalitis, but treatment was stopped when he did not respond. Samples have been sent to the United States for testing. His wife, Fernanda De Almeida Santos Cordeiro, has left her job to become his full-time carer.
A 14-storey residential flat building with 299 dwellings has been recommended and accepted for 6-14 Mona Vale Road and 8 and 10 Vineyard Street, Mona Vale. A 16-storey, $135 million shop-top housing development has been proposed for Fisher Street and Redman Road, Dee Why, partly on the site of The Builders Club. The Land and Environment Court approved an eight-storey shop-top housing development at 22-24 Raglan Street, Manly, the current site of Stoke Beach House. NSW Planning approved an Opal Healthcare residential care facility at Bayview despite 37 objections.
Northern Beaches Libraries is running six free creative workshops across Forestville, Mona Vale and Warringah Mall libraries in October and November. The workshops mark International Day of People with Disability and are run with Studio A, a Sydney studio that supports artists with disability. Adults with and without disability can take part alongside professional artists. Artwork will be shown in a community exhibition at Mona Vale Library from 3 December 2026 to 31 January 2027. Mayor Sue Heins said the program promotes inclusion and connection.
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A man whose parents rented a Mona Vale beach cottage when he was a child has bought the house at auction for $4.5 million. The three-bedroom home at 78 Surfview Road sold under the hammer after the buyer's early offers were rejected. The buyer said he had huge memories of the house and called it his dream home. In Bronte, an oceanfront home at 522-524 Bronte Road sold for $25.2 million to an owner-occupier. Preliminary data showed a Sydney auction clearance rate of 52 per cent for the week.
Police have charged a 13-year-old boy who rides an ebike with several sexual offences linked to alleged attacks on women and girls on walking tracks in Sydney's northern beaches. He was detained on Saturday evening after a public appeal, and officers charged him with three counts of offensive behaviour and eight counts of non-consensual sexual touching. Police allege 11 incidents involving females aged 13 to 54 across the Narrabeen area during early October. The boy has been granted conditional bail and is due before the children's court in November.
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested and charged over 11 alleged sexual offences against women in the Narrabeen Lagoon area of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Police say the incidents occurred between September 7 and October 12. Strike Force Mexvo was set up to investigate, and it released footage of a man on an e-bike after a series of reports. The boy handed himself in at Mona Vale Police Station on Saturday evening. He faces three counts of offensive behaviour in a public place and eight counts of sexual touching without consent.
A 13-year-old boy has been charged over a series of alleged sexual touching incidents involving women and girls on walking trails around Narrabeen Lake. He was arrested after attending Mona Vale Police Station on Saturday 17 October, following a public appeal for information. He faces eight counts of sexually touching another person without consent and three counts of behaving in an offensive manner. Police allege the incidents occurred between 1 and 12 October and include an e-bike rider who approached women on the Narrabeen Lagoon trail.
The first private use of motorised buses in NSW started on the Northern Beaches in 1906. The Manly-Pittwater Motor Omnibus Company began running two Aster-Wembley buses from the Pier Hotel in Manly on 8 February 1906. The buses travelled to George Brock's mansion at Mona Vale. By May 1906 the service ran to Narrabeen and was extended to Rock Lily and Bayview. Brock's planned resort collapsed when a railway line did not reach Pittwater. The company was wound up voluntarily in July 1908.
Nando's owner Richard Enthoven and his wife Karen have bought a four-bedroom beach house on Hastings Parade, North Bondi, for $17.4 million. The property last sold for $4 million in 2015. Settlement records show it settled in Karen Enthoven's name after selling through Raine and Horne Double Bay on June 20. The home has a heated pool added in 2022 and ocean views from its terrace. The previous owner was Adrian Reef, director of Reefine Capital. The couple plans a renovation, and records show they still own Greenoaks Cottage in Darling Point.
A designer beachfront home at 27-29 Surfview Rd, Mona Vale, has sold for $29 million, more than doubling the suburb's previous record of $13.5 million. The home was previously owned by Leigh and Peter Ritchie, former chief executive of McDonald's Australia. The Ritchies had sold it in 2014 to James and Gillian Quille for $7.65 million. Settlement records show poker player Tom Rafferty and his wife Milly bought the property. Agent Joshua Perry of Bell Property Dee Why said the sale was handled privately, without the home being marketed publicly.
National Carers Week, running from 11 to 19 October, recognises the contribution of unpaid carers, of whom there are more than 2.7 million in Australia. The week encourages people to recognise, support and care for carers in their communities. Northern Beaches Council is hosting a range of events, including a mental health information session at Northern Beaches Hospital on 13 October, with an online option available. A Carer Gateway information stand will operate at Manly Library on 14 October and Westfield Warringah Mall on 15 October.
A $75 million sale of a Point Piper waterfront home has become the highest price achieved in Sydney this year. Valuer Simon Feilich, who compiles the Dyson Austen Top 10 Prestige Residential Survey, says the market is recovering after a pause. Half of the top 10 sales for the third quarter took place in September. However, the cumulative value of the top 10 sales fell 16 per cent on the same quarter last year, from $400 million to $341.8 million. The entry point to the top 10 also dropped 22 per cent, to $23.5 million.
