The Somerton Man is exhumed from his resting place in Adelaide's West Terrace Cemetery, in a bid to identify whose remains were found on an Adelaide Beach 73 years ago.

A 51-year-old Australian man dies in India from COVID-19 after travelling to visit his elderly parents before becoming sick.

The Prime Minister's Office has received sufficient detail about a 1,000-room quarantine facility proposal near Wellcamp Airport, Annastacia Palazczuk says, after Scott Morrison claimed the plan was light on detail.

The investigation into allegations that the Trump Organization falsely reported property values to secure loans and reap tax benefits has moved from a civil probe to a criminal investigation.

These clues have baffled those trying to find out who the Somerton Man was and how he died since the discovery of his body 73 years ago. Will his exhumation today finally reveal what happened?

Thousands of Telstra customers are offline after two separate faults took out more than 40 mobile sites overnight. Mice are suspected to be behind the outage at one of the exchanges.

Secrecy provisions across the country are far too broad and are catching journalists doing their normal work, according to a Senate committee dominated by Labor and Greens senators.

Australia's economic policymakers are desperate to see higher wages growth, but their political masters are doing many things within their power to prevent that from happening, writes Michael Janda.

Morale at Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) has sunk so low in the wake of Aishwarya Aswath's death, experienced doctors and nurses are considering quitting their jobs after being made to feel like scapegoats, a senior emergency department...

The NT government says it has concluded an investigation into a complaint against its Treaty Commissioner, Mick Dodson, but will not reveal the outcome.

The federal government's unveiled its controversial plan to build a new gas-fired power station at Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Valley, but not everyone thinks it's a great idea. Here's how we got here and why people are against it.

The Hobart community will soon get a formal say on the controversial proposal for a cable car on kunanyi/Mount Wellington, but one group is already flagging it will do what it takes to stop it.

Bada Bing cafe owner Nathan Sharp is found guilty of selling marijuana-laced brownies to a family — including two young children — who ended up in hospital with cannabis intoxication.

When Rosie Cooney was arrested for domestic violence assault and trespass, the 22-year-old student explained to the police officer that he got it all wrong; she was the victim, not the perpetrator.

Accompanied by their guide dogs and their caddies, 17 golfers with vision-impairment have headed to Adelaide's West Beach to get a few rounds in ahead of the national championship.

The administrator of collapsed building company Pindan Group says up to 1,400 creditors are owed between $70 and $80 million dollars.  

The short video includes a man celebrating as the kangaroo is sucked into equipment.

One of Perth's biggest councils, named after Western Australia's first governor Sir James Stirling, is set to consider changing its name to better recognise the area's traditional owners.

Stuck in an emergency situation, but don't know your location? This mobile technology — just introduced to Australia — might just save your life.

A new survey finds only one in 10 people who face racism file a report. But a new program is aiming to change that.

Jenny McGee, who was credited with helping to save Prime Minister Boris Johnson's life last year, quits the UK's National Health Service over what she says is a lack of "respect" for frontline staff.

Councils on the NSW north coast, where property prices have skyrocketed, say thousands of blocks of land approved for residential development are being kept off the market.

NSW Police allege former Broncos player Jamil Hopoate led officers on a pursuit through the streets of Sydney before throwing a backpack allegedly containing 8 kilograms of cocaine over a fence.

Spanish soldiers expel almost half of the migrants who have jumped fences or swum to European soil from Morocco in the last two days.

Epidemiologists say a new COVID case from the recent New Delhi repatriation flight — which was diagnosed in Australia after two earlier rounds of testing — likely made it here due to how long it takes for the virus to become detectable...