Illegal party-goers in Randwick and the Central Coast are among the 167 penalty infringement notices issued by NSW Police, as Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys takes aim at people celebrating amid the worsening COVID crisis.

Popular television and radio presenter and comedian Jonathan Coleman, who had prostate cancer, is described as "the most eternally effervescent man", as tributes flood social media after his death.

For more than century, Canada's church-run schools forced Indigenous children to assimilate to white society. Now, Indigenous Canadians of faith are reexamining their religious identity.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a home quarantine trial for fully vaccinated travellers in South Australia that could pave the way for Australians to be allowed to leave the country and return. This is what we know about the tria...

More than four decades after her mentor Evonne Goolagong Cawley took the title, proud Ngarigo woman Ash Barty will go down in history tonight regardless of the match result.

NSW has recorded 50 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday — the highest number since the current outbreak began last month.

Analysts say satellite images of what appear to be 120 silos being built in China's desert could be part a broader strategy to confuse potential enemies and dissuade the world from intervening in Beijing's military actions.

This week's COVID figures demonstrated better than any others how the nature of the pandemic has morphed as much as the virus itself in the last couple of months, writes Laura Tingle.

Women who have an abortion are no more likely to suffer from mental health problems, research shows. But those who do experience grief say the politics make it a hard thing to talk about.

Queensland records zero new locally acquired cases of COVID-19, while five cases are detected in hotel quarantine. It comes after the state recorded a donut day yesterday. 

Queensland police say they have charged the president of a Brisbane chapter of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang (OMCG) with the  murder of Gold Coast bikie Shane Bowden.

Hundreds of workers who have spent two weeks in remote lockdown begin their journeys home, after being cleared to leave the Central Australian mine at the centre of a recent COVID-19 outbreak.

Victoria records no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 from 23,265 tests, while three new cases are detected in hotel quarantine.

Ash Barty might become Australia's first women's singles winner at Wimbledon since Evonne Goolagong Cawley in 1980, and the Indigenous tennis champions have much in common.

Australia's Ash Barty is one match away from winning the Wimbledon trophy and achieving her childhood dream. Here's how to watch her attempt.

Carlton is looking for an upset win over Geelong at the MCG, before Brisbane meets St Kilda to end the day, while Fremantle is celebrating a 62-point win over Hawthorn. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and result...

English author George Orwell famously described sport as "war minus the shooting" — but statistics show the victims tend not to be those who are on the field, but those who are off it.

A movement of people who want the 'right to repair' their own technology is growing in Australia, but we are playing catch-up on the global stage.

Is natural wine having an outsized influence in reshaping our wine culture, or just the latest plaything for trend-chasing, virtue-seeking millennials?

On July 10, 1946, for the first time ever, the often-rambunctious debate in Parliament would be experienced by more than just those watching on from the public galleries above.

They're two simple moments, and they show how NSW lost control of the ultra-transmissable Delta COVID-19 variant on one key day — June 26.

They're in salad dressing, toothpaste and household paint. But did you know seaweed extracts can help wounds to heal faster?

From the Bowraville Mission to Hollywood and back, Indigenous actress and playwright Sandy Greenwood is proud to be telling First Nations stories on stage. At age 40 she says there's now an audience for them.

Jupiter's mysterious x-ray auroras have puzzled scientists for decades. Now they may know how they are created.

Daniel Hennessy has a collection of 15 flags from around the world, but says his own city's flag costs too much for town-proud residents to buy it.