The father of an Australian soldier murdered in Afghanistan tells a Senate inquiry that families were threatened and intimated by the Defence Department, who warned them against speaking publicly about a 2012 attack.

People in NSW who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 were 16 times more likely to die, or end up in intensive care during the state's Delta outbreak, new government data reveals.

A Perth nurse is arrested for vaccine fraud as police claim she pretended to give a teenager a COVID jab and then disposed of the dose, before allegedly falsifying the child's medical record.

Dashcam footage captured the moment the toddlers were running along the busy Gold Coast street before a woman and school children came to their aid

Police from the arson squad are travelling to Goonengerry after the sisters died on the weekend in a tragedy locals are describing as "incomprehensible".

Storms have devastated more crops in South Australia's mid north, prompting a farmer to publicly declare he was cutting social ties with any climate change deniers. 

A couple's dream to build a home for their blended family on a waterfront block has been shattered, with experts advising the only way to fix the building's defects is to demolish it and rebuild.

SA Labor leader Peter Malinauskas was secretly fitted with a wire by detectives to record an interaction with former MP Annabel Digance and her husband who have since been accused of blackmail, according to court documents.

Detectives say they expect to remain in Carnarvon for at least a week as they try to determine if more than one person was involved in Cleo Smith's alleged abduction.

The addition of 35 new confirmed observations of these tiny ripples in the fabric of space time takes the tally to 90 detections since 2015.

The Australian man convicted of killing 51 people in the attacks on two Christchurch mosques is claiming he experienced inhumane and degrading treatment while in custody.

Lawyers are seeking more time to sign up hundreds of former youth justice detainees to the multi-million-dollar compensation claim, while a federal court takes time to consider if the settlement sum is fair and reasonable. 

A West Australian woman who smothered her 71-year-old mother with a pillow in Tasmania and used her credit card to pay for a flight back home is sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Lord Deben, chair of the UK's advisory body on climate change, said it was disappointing that it appeared the Prime Minister didn't understand the urgency of reducing emissions.

A father on trial for murder allegedly inflicted "head to foot" injuries on his baby son — either by "vigorously" shaking or through other violent behaviour — towards the seven-month-old boy, the Supreme Court of WA hears.

Untouched beaches and native wildlife are why Hawks Nest residents love their home. All of that could change if the Obeid family get their way.

Australia's booster shot program is underway and hundreds of thousands of Australians can now get their third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Here's your guide to getting vaccinated (again).

A clearer picture emerges of the eight victims who died at the Astroworld Festival during a crowd crush as one injured concertgoer sues rapper and event founder Travis Scott for $1 million in damages.

Eight people are dead and many more injured following Travis Scott's Astroworld show in Houston. But this is not the first time the rapper has been in trouble with the law over dangerous activity at his shows.

A second man is charged in connection with the sniper-style murder of Rebels bikie boss Nick Martin in Perth last year.

Madison de Rozario backs up her Tokyo Paralympic marathon victory with a maiden title at the New York Marathon.

As Queensland edges closer to its 80 per cent single-dose COVID-19 vaccination milestone, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has flagged potential changes to the mask mandate but the Acting Chief Health Officer suggested there was only an "evol...

COVID lockout restrictions in Greater Darwin have been extended by an extra 24 hours after the identification of several new exposure sites, including one authorities have labelled of "particular concern". But Katherine's lockout has end...

An Iranian-born United States citizen who was found in his underwear hiding in the bedroom of a suburban Adelaide drug house is sentenced to at least five-and-a-half years in jail over an $18 million meth bust in 2018.

WA Health Minister Roger Cook says the location of surf lifesaving patrols will be examined as beaches in the vicinity of this weekend's fatal shark attack reopen.