April went missing on Sunday morning near her home in Breakwater, a suburb of Geelong.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has revealed a male security guard in his 20s tested positive for COVID-19 after working at a quarantine hotel.

Authorities have scrambled to meet a flight from Perth to Canberra carrying federal politicians who may have to self-isolate because of a sudden lockdown in parts of Western Australia.

The Casula cluster took 116 days to extinguish. Avalon took 43. One factor best explains the difference: geography.

James Ruse doesn’t have it all their own way - even in agriculture.

As most West Australians reluctantly ready themselves for a lockdown, here’s a quick guide to what this means for you.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

The Chase Australia host is due to face Waverley court on Thursday, after police arrested and charged him in Sydney’s east overnight.

WA Premier Mark McGowan has announced a five-day lockdown after a security guard at a quarantine hotel tested positive for COVID-19.

The government has hinted that it is likely to extend tolls on the 2.7-km tunnel under the harbour when the existing regime expires in 18 months.

Veteran conservative Kevin Andrews was challenged by a former special forces captain for a sought-after Liberal Party seat in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs on Sunday.

Commissioner Katarina Carroll says youth crime is going down overall despite fresh concerns raised in the wake a joyride incident in Townsville that saw officers injured.

A man has been found dead in a home at Bracken Ridge on Sunday, with police treating his death as suspicious.

About 80 per cent of the WA population will go into lockdown tonight and people who were in the same areas as the man who tested positive have been asked to go to COVID-19 testing clinics.

The two men were entering a Mercedes when they were ambushed in Sydney’s south.

Four men have been charged over the attack, described by the Commissioner as “sickening”, however up to 10 men are alleged to have been present, with more expected to be charged.

There are no UberEats deliveries or parents dropping off takeaway at Homestead Senior Secondary College.

To those who are disappointed with your result, I encourage you to see this as a beginning rather than an end.

Victoria’s public transport users will be able to see in real-time how busy metropolitan trains and stations will be before they get on board.

The 32-year-old had been on life support since Thursday night when he was critically injured in an alleged fight at a Rockhampton home.

A search resumed on Sunday morning for a 20-year-old woman who was last seen snorkelling near the pier on Altona beach.

NSW has reported no locally acquired cases of COVID-19 for the 14th consecutive day, marking one infection cycle with zero local transmission detected.

Victoria has recorded 25 days in a row with no locally acquired cases of coronavirus, but the Health Department received an “indeterminate” COVID-19 result on Saturday.

The future of the human race will depend on whether the “better angels of our nature” will prevail or be shouted down by the “demons of our nature”.

About 6pm on Saturday, emergency services were called to the Hume Road in Smithfield after receiving reports a vehicle was on fire.

We returned to Cape Conran in East Gippsland, to find restoration and regrowth.

The hedge funds mess with us – so why not mess with them?

Detached house prices are now so high in Sydney that even fairly modest percentage increases translate into large sums of money.

After eight years in detention, from Christmas Island to PNG and then a Melbourne motel, Mostafa “Moz” Azimitabar has a simple message for Australians.

Sydney’s North Head Quarantine Station was and is the perfect place to quarantine overseas arrivals.

Edited extract: The true story of a family of spies in the suburbs of Sydney at the height of the Cold War.

The most common way young people accessed online gambling was by using a parent’s account with their permission. Parents often gave children money specifically to gamble.

The mining company has argued it paid for work on a private jet, which it now realises it does not own.

Sydney’s northern beaches has bounced back from lockdown, but it remains a source of fear and anxiety for some residents.

Children who began kindergarten later were slightly ahead in reading and numeracy after three years, but their advantage diminished in years 5 and 7 and had disappeared completely by year 9, study finds.

As Australian of the year in 2015, Rosie Battie spoke at 250 events. She knows the challenges Grace Tame faces this year.

Standing 110 metres high, yet barely six metres wide, the Pencil Tower Hotel is a skyscratcher.

The Blacktown Brain and Spinal Institute, led by neurosurgeon Charlie Teo, aims to attract patients and their families from interstate and overseas.

As a Brit in Australia, I should be loving lockdown-free life – if only I could stop feeling bad for the UK.

While other imaging methods have fallen in popularity, the number of MRIs is rising, leaving some patients out of pocket.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

As women’s unemployment in Victoria remains significantly higher than men’s the state’s peak gender equality agency wants large investment in women’s employment, health and violence prevention.

We all know the Australian honours system is elitist and discredited. But can something be done about it?

An Australian demand by women’s health experts that pregnant women be included in COVID-19 vaccine trials was ignored, and omitting them was discriminatory, some claim.

In this life-or-death battle against the coronavirus, convincing the millions of Australians still sitting on the fence about the vaccine to get the jab will be critical to the success of the country’s vaccine strategy.

The Victorian government’s plan to tax drivers of electric vehicles is in jeopardy because the government does not have the support in the upper house.

This is a COVID-19 live blog with coverage of major developments in Australia and overseas.

Researchers have identified a potential issue with using insect protein as a food source.

Clinical research has shown it can help reduce anxiety, insomnia, post-traumatic stress disorder and pain – and it’s most commonly used by middle-aged women.

The 15-year-old girls allegedly met the men on December 28 in a Calamvale park, in the city’s south, where they were repeatedly sexually assaulted.