A severe thunderstorm in Sydney and coastal NSW brings thunder, lightning, heavy rain and hail, following a severe weather warning that included possible tornado activity was issued late this afternoon.

The radar has lit up like a Christmas tree this evening as heavy rainfall and severe storms hit eastern Australia. 

There are now 20,505 active cases of the virus in Victoria, with 11 more deaths taking the number of lives lost in the current outbreak to 125.

CSL's Melbourne plant is making about a million doses a week and up to 800,000 are being sent overseas to bolster vaccine rollouts in the Pacific and South-East Asia. But the company is expected to wind up production of AstraZeneca in Austra...

This week, residents in aged care facilities across New South Wales finally welcomed back visitors as restrictions eased.

Two people share their heart-breaking stories of terminal cancer and explain what it would mean for them if NSW's assisted dying bill is passed.

Days after announcing a $1.3-billion purchase of more US-made Seahawk helicopters, Defence grounds its entire fleet after an incident at sea.

Having enjoyed life with barely any restrictions this year, WA's Premier has outlined what 'living with the virus' will look like.

More alleged sexual abuse victims of swimming coach John Wright have come forward with stories about his time in Queensland and South Africa in the 1970s and 1990s.

Police are trying to track down people who received a fake "medical exemption" from the Toowoomba woman, who was charging up to $150 per document.

Twelve ambulances called to treat nine people, three of whom died, after a multi-vehicle crash that spread debris for almost a kilometre, the ambulance service says.

Comedian Billy Connolly was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013. While he tries not to dwell on his diagnosis, he admits it has been challenging.

A 22-year-old woman who skipped out on hotel quarantine in WA after returning from locked-down Victoria, and was arrested after catching a train from Perth to Kalgoorlie, has been told she is likely facing a term of imprisonment.

Relatively unknown actor Jamie Costa gives an uncanny performance as Robin Williams in a five-minute YouTube video that has gone viral.

Billionaire mining magnate Andrew Forrest says "people like him" need to change and lead the country away from coal, but that "fearmongering" Nationals politicians are scaring Australians to save their own jobs.

Ron Brierley — once knighted for his services to business — is sentenced to 14 months in prison after he was caught at Sydney Airport with a large collection of child abuse material he said he used for "recreation".

Another 138,000 jobs were lost last month as Australia's two most populous states struggled through extended lockdowns, but the unemployment rate was held down by a dramatic plunge in people looking for work.

Alleged fraudster Bill Papas may have committed criminal offences according to liquidators, after allegedly siphoning off more than $500 million from Westpac and other major banks since 2013.

Lawyers for the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins have been given three more weeks to prepare their case, after COVID-19 restrictions caused delays. 

Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank will require all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months.

A Tasmanian woman who was allegedly set on fire by her partner tells a jury he threatened to kill her — and force her to write her own suicide note beforehand  — if she ever left him.

NSW records 406 new local COVID-19 cases and another six deaths as the state inches closer to the 80 per cent double-dose target.

As a twister tore through NSW two weeks ago, Scott McKinnon saw outside a "scene out of the Wizard Of Oz" — his tiny Pomeranian, along with some of the neighbour's cows, spinning about 20 metres up in the air. 

Gymnasts who suffered sexual abuse under former team doctor Larry Nassar send a letter to Congress calling for the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee to be dissolved.

They're not commercial yet, but electric taxis are "flying, they've got people in them" and this company says the Advanced Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at Moreton Bay will be the perfect base.