Businesses along the Murray River are calling for financial relief from the New South Wales government to help make up the cost of a ban on Victorian customers.

The cluster associated with the Delta variant of COVID-19 grows to nine as 170 workers from a Melbourne construction site associated with two unlinked cases in the Kappa cluster go into isolation.

Kathleen McCann is building her own tiny home on a friend's 5-acre property, where she helps to maintain the land. The co-living arrangement is one idea that's been put forward to help women at risk of homelessness.

A deer expert says the young animal likely travelled into the city from Melbourne's peri-urban fringe to look for a mate.

Infectious disease expert Sharon Lewin says the Indian coronavirus variants, named Kappa and Delta, are likely to have arrived in Australia via the hotel quarantine system. Read back over our COVID blog.

Many stood-down workers and business owners still stuck in Melbourne's latest lockdown are wading through the fine print to find they are not eligible for new relief payments, or that grants will hardly make a dent in their losses.

The Reserve Bank is throwing just about everything it has at boosting wages and inflation, but all it seems to be achieving are surging asset prices, further widening the gap between the haves and have-nots.

An adviser to former Federal Liberal MP Craig Kelly has been granted bail after appearing at Parramatta Local Court charged with sexually touching and indecently assaulting three women and a teenage girl on multiple occasions.

The Crows host Collingwood at Adelaide Oval, after the Swans get the points over the Saints - and later there will be the Dreamtime match in Perth between Essendon and Richmond. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and r...

Racing Queensland's Steve and Jane Wilson are revealed as the new owners of Brisbane's heritage-listed Lamb House. The couple is planning a multi-million-dollar renovation to revive the derelict, 119-year-old mansion.

Teenage amateur sensation Megha Ganne is two shots behind leader Yuka Saso at the midway point of the US Women's Open at the tough Olympic Club course.

As Chinese authorities push urban couples to have three children to boost the country's ailing fertility rates, young people counter with a lifestyle centred around minimising spending, working and socialising.

The Canadian Prime Minister says he is "deeply disappointed" the Roman Catholic Church has not offered a formal apology in the wake of 215 children's remains being found beneath a church-run Indigenous boarding school.

Bias Ramadhan received calls from eight separate law firms offering to sue on his behalf after his mother died in the Lion Air plane crash. But two and half years later, he's had to sue again, to get some of the money owed to him from his s...

The Adelaide Crows have been fined $50,000 for breaching the AFL's COVID-19 protocols after an investigation found five players and three staff were not wearing face masks properly on a commercial flight last weekend.

Long queues have formed outside community vaccine hubs across Queensland this weekend, with health authorities bracing for a major turnout as part of their statewide vaccine blitz.

An ABC Sport investigation reveals Carlton's Little League team was coached by a paedophile for five seasons in the 1970s. It follows an investigation which found the St Kilda Little League team was infiltrated by a paedophile ring, duri...

One person is dead and seven are missing after an accident in a coal mine in central China, according to state broadcaster CCTV. In Mexico, another coal mine accident has left seven people trapped.

The last fortnight has hardly been consistent with the Morrison strategy of winning an election based on its excellent management of the pandemic, writes Laura Tingle.

Forty-four climbers claim to have achieved the stunning feat of climbing to the peak of 14 of the world's highest mountains. But Australian Damien Gildea says there's a question mark over almost all of them.

There are still more than 360 locations listed as exposure sites in Victoria, even after some venues were removed after two cases were deemed false positives earlier this week.

Apathy, strength, complacency, commitment: we've seen two sides of the pandemic response this week, writes Virginia Trioli.

Controversy over two old houses catching fire on a block sited for a Brisbane townhouse development has come at a bad time for the developer – high-profile property investor Sasha Hopkins.

First Nations Fashion and Design makes history at Australian Fashion Week in Sydney during Reconciliation Week.