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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Media personality Jonathan Coleman passes away

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.

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

USQ engineers have used science to create art as part of the SPARK Ipswich festival getting under way from Saturday.

Police will allege the pair were drinking in a local pub early on Friday before they went to the Eagleby Wetlands.

Pfizer’s vaccines will carry new warning statements, after a potential link to a small increased risk of heart inflammation was detected in the US.

Transmission has not outstripped potential public health control measures.

Australia’s leading doctors group has warned Australia’s hospitals are too full to handle ongoing cases of coronavirus, even at levels similar to the seasonal flu, and capacity needs to be urgently increased or lives will be put at risk.

Rapid testing will be deployed in Sydney’s south-west in order to extinguish any unrecognised transmission of COVID-19 after the state clocked up the outbreak’s highest number of new daily cases.

The NSW government’s decision to include Shellharbour in the lockdown makes no sense, the local mayor says.

On the available evidence, trying to live with the coronavirus does not protect jobs.

While a military man leads Operation COVID Shield, Australia ignores some its greatest experts in the field: nurses

On Monday afternoon, the Victorian government put a cross through the Australian Grand Prix for another year. The move has led to a great deal of soul-searching about Victoria’s major events future.

Why even have a department labelled “Planning”. Why pretend?

A crack team of homicide investigators is being recruited to probe war crimes, including what’s been dubbed “the most disgraceful episode in Australia’s military history”.

Ashleigh Petrie’s engagement sparked front-page news. Her tragic death only weeks later left her loved ones shattered – and searching for clues as to how and why her life unravelled.

Good Weekend senior writer Melissa Fyfe discusses the life and tragic death of a 23-year-old Victorian court clerk who became front-page news after her engagement to a magistrate 45 years her senior.

The testing of community reaction by senior ministers, floating the idea that COVID-19 could be allowed to “circulate” in the community, is unbelievable.

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Two men have been arrested in relation to the disappearance of Doveton man Brendon Farrell, with human remains found in Melbourne’s south-east on Friday.

The Meriton Suites in Mascot is set to be turned into a hotel quarantine facility despite protests from parents and the childcare centre’s owner.

In Iran, people are shot or tortured for the simple act of protesting. But this, an asylum seeker says, is nothing compared with how he has suffered at the hands of the Australian government.

Brisbane Magistrate Tina Previtera described parts of the defence lawyer’s argument as “absurd” and “rubbish”.

It all began in late 2005 with a dream that was a blend of whimsy, history and bar-trade savvy. Now the pandemic has brought a beloved Melbourne venue to a close.

Parents want teachers to have easier access to vaccinations as students face months of disruption, with the Catholic school sector offering its schools as vaccination hubs.

Despite advertising retail spaces at 317-321 Little Collins Street for its “elite location”, owners have allowed the upstairs to fall into disrepair rather than use the asset.

Metropolitan and some regional businesses will be able to access $3000 grants from the WA government to cover losses from the state’s four-day lockdown as the premier flags further travel restrictions for people trying to leave New South Wales.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

In a letter released by the Federal Court on Friday, an anonymous “friend” told Mr Roberts-Smith “I can imagine what you were doing with another lady ... [at the] Hyatt Regency in Sydney”.

NSW police are descending on south-west Sydney this morning to enforce coronavirus restrictions, Ash Barty will be the first Australian woman to contest a Wimbledon final in 41 years and Melburnians are waking up to the first day in months where they...

As tough new restrictions come into effect, the city goes quiet.

Clive Palmer’s headline double-act of sacked sporting stars will debut for the Southport Tigers on Saturday evening at the Gold Coast’s Owen Park (field 1).

Commenting on stories is without doubt the most popular and also frustrating part of being a Herald subscriber, if the feedback is anything to go by. Last week alone we received 60,730 comments on 565 articles.

Kabul Mixed Business owner Mohammed Rajabi has run the corner store for 12 years but he will permanently shut the doors next week.

Hanna Dickenson swindled money from family and friends by claiming she had cancer. Police allege she also falsified a reference provided to the court.

Rob Stokes says he is unapologetic about his new approach to urban development, in which rules give way to principles of design.