Heavy rains have sent water spilling from Sydney’s main dam and spark major flooding across regional NSW.

Things are looking up for artist Patricia Piccinini who will have two exhibitions for her work running simultaneously in Melbourne. 

Bullets snake up the ground towards him. Dirt flying. The roar deafening. It’s just 100 yards between life and death for Sam Ginsberg on Libyan soil. But it would be a Jewish stranger oceans away, he believes, who saved his life.

“Freedom” protestors have taken over Melbourne’s streets once again to condemn vaccination mandates, pandemic legislation and other health measures introduced by the Andrews government.

Sydney’s Cow & the Moon competes to win back the crown for the world’s best gelato maker.

People have gathered in the streets of Melbourne again this weekend to march against mandatory vaccination and passports.

Large crowds gathered at the Gold Coast and Mackay on Saturday, where they were addressed by state and federal One Nation MPs amid ongoing demonstrations against the rules.

About 9000 protesters gathered at Hyde Park to protest vaccine mandates for the second weekend in a row on Saturday.

Anti-lockdown demonstrations are scheduled to take place in Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday.

Regional hospitals have found themselves on the front line of natural disasters and workforce shortages that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Pilbara iron ore miner Fortescue will plead guilty to two counts of breaching WA’s Aboriginal Heritage Act when it cleared land in February 2021, a lawyer for the Andrew Forrest-chaired company told Perth Magistrates Court on Friday.

In this edited extract from Jess Hill’s Quarterly Essay, The Reckoning: How #MeToo is changing Australia, she explains there’s been wins and losses but making lasting social change is a long game and there’s plenty of fighters.

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Protesting against vaccine mandates.

Michael Hanley is an artist who uses found objects to create lamps. He started Upswitch in 2015 while he was still working as a music teacher. COVID pandemic and lockdowns forced him to take time off from touring exhibitions where he markets and sell...

Several people have been rescued from floodwaters overnight after a week of rain activity which saturated most of the region with more than 200 millimetres.

In a workshop in Belgrave, Michael Hanley breathes light into old objects. 

A man has died after he was stabbed in a fight that broke out in Northbridge in the early hours of Saturday morning.

The new infection has been reported in a family member of three people who arrived from Melbourne this week, none of whom are vaccinated, health authorities said.

“When you come and you walk the strip, the community engagement, you can actually feel it, it’s not fake. It’s not something that’s advertised or promoted. It’s something that’s actually quite real,” cafe owner Sandro Puca said.

Christopher Atkinson allegedly stabbed another driver after a merging altercation on Tonkin Highway in Wattle Grove on Monday about 4.45pm. He has been charged with reckless driving and grievous bodily harm.

Stacey Klimovitch was shot dead as she answered the door to her Stockton home in June this year.

Police are searching for protesters who lit flares, threw objects at police and damaged buildings during demonstrations against vaccine mandates after Victoria recorded 1252 new coronavirus cases and five deaths from the virus on Saturday.

A jailhouse fight has ended with one prisoner charged with murder and another dead inside Silverwater.

Having demanded that we deal with sexual assault differently, Grace Tame and Chanel Contos discuss the power – and pain – of asking uncomfortable questions.

The NSW Teachers Federation will vote today on a recommendation to direct all members to strike and attend a rally on December 7, their first strike in almost 10 years.

Extremists are advancing violent radical agendas under cover of anti-vax and anti-lockdown protests. And the Prime Minister is playing tribal chief instead of leader.

Advocating for changes to consent laws has allowed me to reclaim my story, and helped me find myself again - that person I lost in 2013.

With disturbing frequency, apartment buyers weep on our television screens as their slaved-for single asset cracks, leaks and exfoliates in front of them.

Sixty senior faculty members have opposed a plan to replace arts and social sciences departments with ‘disciplines’.

Women everywhere, but particularly First Nations women, have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

The state’s transport agency has revealed it is exploring opportunities to transform its underused assets into “new urban places”, including Heritage-listed tram sheds behind Newtown Station.

Australia is made up of people from diverse cultural backgrounds, religions and race. Yet one attribute is seen as less important than the others, and that’s not right.

One of the most controversial proposed gas developments in Australia, adjacent to NSW’s pristine beaches, has created a rift within the Coalition.

As he preached to the converted about religious freedom on Thursday, listing all the religions he could think of before running out of ideas, the Prime Minister bore an uncanny resemblance to The Simpsons’ Reverend Lovejoy.

We’re getting older and there’s fewer of us than expected. As COVID-19 stopped migration, experts are asking what should the approach to population be now?

Sydney is one of the world’s most liveable cities, yet thousands of people are leaving. Here are four ways to improve some of the city’s problems.

The population boom in the Southern Highlands has raised concerns that the price of its popularity may be the loss of its charm.

An Indigenous visitor centre to be built at Kurnell is one of the highlights of an exhibition at the National Museum of Australia and online.

No crossbenchers have had as many legislative wins as Fiona Patten, Andy Meddick and Samantha Ratnam. Some MPs say the three have been bought by the government.

Unlike the Prime Minister, I have the utmost respect for the NSW ICAC and know what it has achieved in terms of improving integrity and accountability in the NSW Public Service.

From America to Afghanistan, space tourism to streaming, climate change to China, 2021 has been quite the ride for this planet we all call home.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

Investigators deemed it suspicious that a car stolen from the Sunshine Coast hinterland would turn up in the general vicinity, and time, that Jeremiah Rivers disappeared.

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

It was people aged in their 20s and 30s who kept us engaged this year, and stopped us from falling into a complete COVID funk.

The family of the man accused of murdering campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay has broken its silence to ask for privacy, saying they are “completely traumatised”.

The parents of Hoang Vinh Le took the child from Canberra and subsequently told authorities they gave him to a woman they met at a coffee shop and paid $200.

Victorian police will continue their search for the remains of missing campers after charges were laid over their disappearance as NSW moves towards the removal of masks, QR code check-ins and vaccination certificates and Australian support for stron...

Grant, the father of former NSW police minister Troy Grant, drank beer and wine before he ran over an acquaintance while driving from a Christmas party in 2019.