Grey skies and empty streets as Sydney's lockdown restrictions tighten.

Follow along as we bring you all the key moments from Saturday’s AFL matches.

Hawthorn’s coaching bombshell has created uncertainty among coaches but Alastair Clarkson remains calm amid the headlines.

In the wild west, sheriffs pinned up “wanted” posters in saloons to catch an outlaw. These days, law enforcement relies on Facebook to help identify a suspect. But what happens when someone is falsely accused?

Sydney is bracing for a lockdown that could stretch for weeks as surging case numbers prompt tighter restrictions, while a new advertising campaign for the nation’s vaccine rollout will begin on Sunday.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with murder and another man is facing an accessory to murder charge in connection to missing Doveton man Brendon Farrell.

Victorian health officials could shut the border to NSW ‘in the coming hours or days’” to prevent the growing Sydney outbreak from spreading into the state.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that France’s team is pulled from the talent of 30 professional clubs, while Australia’s comes from just five.

The captain was originally accused of multiple indecent acts in front of a Papua New Guinea nurse but has now won a retrial.

All you need to know to back a winner at Grafton on Sunday.

Paul Green came under fire for his 18-second press conference on Friday as the pressure grows on the Maroons coach, but his employer is still backing him.

The Swifts showed why they are top of the ladder on Saturday while Collingwood’s Geva Mentor readied herself for a career milestone.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

A man in his 30s is in hospital after he was stabbed on a train in Melbourne’s west last night.

As Ash Barty prepares for the 2021 Wimbledon final, it’s worth winding back the clock to 1971 when Evonne Goolagong Cawley became the first Indigenous Australian to win at the All England Club.

Jockey Brenton Avdulla is building a great association with Bandersnatch.

Dr Raymond Chan is among 593 Australians engaged to be married, and whose future spouses have visas to come to Australia but are stuck worlds apart due to the travel ban.

Commuters have been told to avoid driving to work if they can amid fears the freeway could flood on Monday morning.

The Dockers are temporarily in the eight as the Hawks’ long rebuild continues under Alastair Clarkson in his first match since the club announced Sam Mitchell would replace him as coach in 2023.

It’s now been 18 months since most of us took an overseas sojourn, so what are we doing with all that annual leave?

Using just his eyes, Kurt Drysdale has been able to bounce back from his catastrophic spinal injury in a job created by Blues coach Brad Fittler.

The Blues coach and skipper can’t shake the memories of Origin III in 2018.

Ricky Stuart says little kids want to be like Jack Wighton. Now he wants Jack Wighton to get back to being like Jack Wighton.

The artist briefly known as Nick Murphy wants his new album Hotel Surrender to be “mass therapy” for listeners.

This year’s Survivor Australia was filmed here – here being Cloncurry, 2000km from Brisbane, where it’s hot by day and cold by night, and very dry.

COVID-19 Commander Jeroen Weimar said NSW was battling the largest COVID-19 outbreak since Melbourne’s deadly second wave of infections and that authorities would not hesitate to make the entire state red.

Born from the ashes of the humiliating 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign, this young Italian team have inspired their people en route to the Euro 2020 final.

Dante Exum faces an uncertain future in the NBA but he has no doubts about playing for Australia at the Tokyo Olympics.

It took more than an hour for about 60 firefighters to gain control of a large building blaze that sent smoke across Melbourne’s north-west on Saturday morning.

Boots – either flat, chunky heeled or cowboy – are a wardrobe staple for OzHarvest’s CEO and founder, Ronni Kahn.

“We definitely need assistance and we’ve asked our international partners for help,” Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph said in a phone interview late on Friday.

Noll introduced Malibu boards to Australia around the time of the Melbourne Olympic Games.

Grafton Cup-winning trainer Michael Costa is confident new acquisition Morethannumberone will more than pay his way for his new stable.

The man has been charged with murder over the death of Shane Bowden, who was shot in his driveway in October 2020.

Aaron Finch’s men joined their West Indies opponents in making the gesture at the start of the first T20, which the home side won by 18 runs after a stunning collapse by Australia.

The players’ union claims there would be fewer biosecurity bubble breaches if the NRL took the AFL’s lead in punishing players.

It’s early days but in Joel Amartey the Swans may have unearthed more treasure from deep in the draft.

Media personality Jonathan Coleman passes away

With South America’s soccer powerhouses preparing to face off, there’s a lot more to the Copa decider than a clash between two of the sport’s biggest stars.

Jamie Kah told her family not to come to Caulfield on Saturday so they wouldn’t jinx her. But she wouldn’t be denied her record-breaking 100th city win for the season.

Coleman died on Friday night with his wife and children by his side, four years after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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Ashleigh Barty does more than punch above her weight on the pro tennis tour, but it’s a significant height differential which looms as one of the biggest factors for her to overcome to win this year’s title.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has introduced several new restrictions for the state to come into effect from 5pm Friday after a surge of unlinked COVID-19 cases in the community.

Adelaide defender Tom Doedee was involved in a frightening collision with Essendon’s Anthony McDonald-Tipungwuti on Friday night that left his coach questioning whether such an act was necessary.

“They say I don’t have proof of fraud,” the South American president said. “You don’t have proof that there’s no fraud either!”

NSW recorded 50 new coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Friday, as Sydney’s outbreak continues to spread in the south-west.

If any more evidence was needed to confirm the Lions’ dynasty was over, this match certainly provided it. The 139-point belting remains St Kilda’s biggest win and Brisbane’s biggest loss, while the Saints final score of 28.18 is still the club�...

For the first time in three months, coronavirus cases are rising again: the current daily case rate of 16,000 is up 40 per cent on the previous fortnight.

There were five new cases on Saturday, but all were detected in hotel quarantine and acquired overseas