St Kevin’s principal Deborah Barker wrote to parents on Wednesday to say that the former teacher had been charged with criminal offences.

Ian Seeley, whose father Raymond Mulvihill was the prime suspect, told his story to the coronial inquest on Wednesday.

The Bureau of Meteorology cancelled its severe weather warning for areas across the state, but the danger is not over yet as crews begin to mop up.

Police say the man who died today in Glenorie, in Sydney’s north-west, called triple zero after driving into floodwaters and stayed on the phone until “contact was lost”.

The jump in property costs comes as buyers take advantage of record low interest rates, government programs and money saved during the coronavirus recession.

Police and QFES staff were working to pull an overturned ute from the swollen Canungra Creek when the body of David Hornman was recovered.

Police were called after a member of the public spotted the small boat through binoculars driving in circles about 5 nautical miles off the coast of Alkimos with no sign of people on board.

Planning experts warn the government may need to buy back public land in communities where former schools are now being prepared for sale.

The rush of murky water from flood-affected inland areas throughout NSW to the ocean is dumping detritus along the coastline, posing threats to watercraft and deteriorating beach water quality.

Clearer skies appear over Sydney and Mid North Coast but flood risk continues

One of Victoria’s major health service providers could be penalised over a patient’s suicide after his mental health unit failed to reduce the physical risks to his safety in his room.

Setting a quota is putting the cart before the horse. Until we stop the bullying and harassment, women will not want to be in parliament.

The statement would commit all schools to taking “concrete actions” to strengthen their students’ ability to form healthy relationships and prevent harmful situations, and to acknowledging their duty to respond.

An Aboriginal man is suing Victoria Police over claims officers threw him off his bicycle, pinned him to the ground and called him a “black c---” during an arrest. 

Kathleen Folbigg’s last hopes are now pinned on the same Attorney-General advising the NSW Governor to pardon her after the NSW Court of Appeal to dash her hopes once more.

The man was charged after a number of items were seized from a home on the Sunshine Coast at the weekend.

Millions of dollars’ worth of insurance claims across Queensland and NSW have been made, after heavy rainfall and flooding ravaged the Gold Coast, Logan and Scenic Rim regions.

What risk do these new variants pose? How did they evolve? And how will they affect our vaccines?

Jack Earl circumnavigated the globe on his boat in 1947 and sent home love letters that are now on display.

A person is in police custody following a protest at Adani’s Carmichael Rail Corridor in central Queensland that has been going for several hours.

In this episode, Tory Maguire and political reporter Katina Curtis discuss the mood in Canberra after more incidents of continued harassment of women have come to light.

A new art show featuring well-known Australian artists will exhibit and sell hundreds of artworks for $100 per piece. The twist? The buyer won’t know whose work they’re buying until after the sale.

The rain finally stopped and the sun came out, but the floodwaters in Sydney’s north-west are still causing havoc.

As more Australians roll up their sleeves in the coming weeks to receive a jab, we invited readers to send in questions about the COVID-19 vaccines on offer in Australia. Here are the answers to your questions.

Convicted killer Robert Edhouse and fellow Aryan Nations member Corey Dymock allegedly used coded letters and telephone calls to plot the prison break, which was to take place during a hospital visit.

The ramping and overworked staff crisis facing Perth hospitals needs to be addressed by freeing up more beds filled by mental health patients, according to the sector’s chief bureaucrat.

“I think targets have failed us. We haven’t succeeded in getting specific targets,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

The proposed Commonwealth Integrity Commission is more likely to protect politicians than expose corruption.

The 17-year-old’s family, friends and the community at his high school, where he was a captain, are grieving after his death on Tuesday night.

Kim Edwards, an engineer and business leader who left his mark on Melbourne and Sydney and built Transurban into one of Australia’s largest public companies, has died at the age of 70.

Parents will hold a crisis meeting in Richmond on Wednesday night to raise concerns over the proximity of a supervised injecting centre to their children’s primary school.

External wall panels similar to the ones used on London’s Grenfell Tower are being removed from the Brisbane Square building In George Street in a multimillion-dollar project.

Masks will not be mandatory on public transport from March 29, while restrictions on weddings, funerals and dancing will also be lifted in a major easing of coronavirus restrictions across NSW.

Ipswich woman Sharron Phillips, 20, was last seen in Wacol in Brisbane’s south-west on May 8, 1986. Join our live coverage of the inquest into her disappearance.

The Attorney-General’s model for an anti-corruption commission has been slammed as a sham and a “deliberate political diversion designed to shield the public sector, and in particular politicians and their staff, from proper scrutiny”.

More coronavirus patients are being cared for in Queensland than anywhere else in Australia as more positive cases flock south from Papua New Guinea.

The eldest daughter of Melbourne underworld associate Danielle McGuire has been ordered to pay more than $800,000 to a builder following a protracted legal dispute over the construction of a St Kilda hostel.

The headlines were much the same during the Sydney floods of 1961. But one long-time resident says mistakes made 60 years ago are being repeated.

When Julia Finn saw thousands of women sharing their stories of sexual assault, she decided she was ready to join them.

The convicted baby killer sought to quash the outcome of a 2019 judicial inquiry which reinforced her guilt for the murders of her three children, and the manslaughter of one.

Police are appealing for public assistance to help find a missing Gold Coast man.

A fast-food outlet in Perth’s southern suburbs was forced to shut for months after a flock of birds found their way into its roof and covered the ceiling and air-conditioning ducting with faeces.

We’re inviting women readers to add their stories to a special edition of Herald letters, in the hope they will be part of historic change.

The family of a woman who was ambushed and sexually assaulted in Northbridge after she knocked off work has called for a greater government response to an issue which faces the whole nation, as her attacker was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The powerhouse behind Broome’s Mangrove Hotel and Swan Valley’s Sandalford Wines is planning to transform a heritage-listed college on the Cappuccino Strip into a pop-up event space and bar.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says no major rainfall is forecast for the next week but cautioned that thousands of people remain subject to flood evacuation warnings.

Victoria has recorded its 26th day without a local case of COVID-19, as more than 800,000 doses of the Melbourne-made AstraZeneca vaccine were approved for distribution.

After being courted for years, Brisbane’s multibillion-dollar student housing sector has hit out at the council and governments for failing to work with them amid the challenges of COVID-19.

We need a moratorium on greenfield residential land releases, particularly in places vulnerable to river and sea water, and to fire.

NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes said the terminal wasn’t well integrated into the area, but he had to work with existing constraints in mapping out the future of the precinct.