Sydney's main water source, Warragamba Dam, spills over for the first time since 2016, as rivers in Australia's largest city swell and evacuation orders are issued for multiple locations around the state.

NSW is experiencing a "prolonged weather event" that caused a mini-tornado in Sydney's west and has left a trail of destruction from the Mid-North Coast all the way to the Illawarra.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says the wild weather that has hit NSW will be a "prolonged event" and the rain might not stop until Thursday or Friday. Follow live. 

Australians should be comforted that the United States has "got our back" in the deteriorating relationship between Canberra and Beijing, says Federal Trade Minister Dan Tehan.

A group of older Australians dreamed of a peaceful retirement in France. Instead, they find themselves spearheading a push to jump-start international talks on a bilateral pension deal.

Maryanne Tafeuni realised she was witnessing something unusual when the top of a cubby house flew across her backyard this morning.

It has not been a good week for the government's marketing department. But more importantly, it has been a shocker for government accountability, writes Laura Tingle.

Some employees at the Florida resort are quarantining "out of an abundance of caution", with service at the club's dining room temporarily suspended.

The flooding rains described as "dangerous and threatening" that are already sweeping along the east coast are just a taste of a soaking forecast for more than two-thirds of the country next week.

The Warrnambool mother had a rude introduction to the world of online dating after coming out of a long-term relationship four years ago. And she is not alone.

In one simple sentence, a young man laid bare his experience of the often fraught relationship between Indigenous children and police.

A volcanic eruption begins near Iceland's capital Reykjavik following thousands of small earthquakes in the area in recent weeks, the country's meteorological office says.

Off the back of a year of COVID-19 infections, social distancing and lockdowns, our immunity system has "waned" — and the "large resurgence" of RSV is the first sign of that.

Essendon plays Hawthorn and Brisbane hosts Sydney after Adelaide's major upset win over Geelong. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

The Manly Sea Eagles take on the South Sydney Rabbitohs before the North Queensland Cowboys host the St George Illawarra Dragons in Townsville. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

For the past 17 years, artificial inseminator Ange Wilson has been up well before dawn, reaching into the nether regions of hundreds of cows.

Twenty-year-old Joel Hunter is hard at work forging a career as an armourer, sculping reproductions of historic pieces that knights wore hundreds of years ago, and paying his bills through the ancient craft.

The top aim of the trip to Asia seemed to be applying soothing diplomatic words to relationships that had chafed under the freewheeling and unpredictable movements of the previous Trump administration, writes Carrington Clarke.

In 1921, a charismatic NSW MP who supported the Russian Revolution was shot at a rural railway station as he tried to disarm an itinerant Russian migrant. Was Percy Brookfield's death a political killing, or was he the unlucky victim of an...

The two-day meetings, the first high-level in-person talks since President Joe Biden took office, finish on Friday after a fiery start that saw both sides skewer each others' policies in front of TV cameras.

Rental prices are rising in some places and falling elsewhere. Sale prices are going up at different rates in different areas. Experts say the housing market has structural problems that need addressing.

Record low interest rates and a bumper housing surge in Sydney prompts warnings to first home buyers about taking on too much debt.

Australian Liz Mills is the only woman currently in charge of a men's national basketball team and has to fight hard to remove pre-conceived ideas. Just don't call her "ma'am".

Pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh say they could effectively rid their country of coronavirus in a matter of months. All they need is a vaccine blueprint. But drug makers in the West say they have good reasons for not handing it over. ...

From Monday, Australia will begin the next phase of the COVID-19 rollout, with millions more people eligible for the jab, including over-70s, people with underlying health conditions and Indigenous people over 55 — but the rollout hasn't b...