The east coast is sodden, towns have gone under and summer has only just started. But it will take a lot to beat the  wettest summers. 

Foreign policy experts are divided on whether the South Korean President's trip to Australia is a sign of "quiet alignment" with Australia and the US, or simply a move to secure Australian resources. 

The "painstaking" four-week search for William Tyrrell's remains will end "in coming days", police say. The efforts were sparked by "new information", but have so far turned up nothing of note.

WA's Health Minister urges people to check a list of exposure sites as three fully vaccinated truck drivers from South Australia test positive for COVID-19 after spending time in the west.

Throughout the pandemic, farmers have become increasingly reliant on temporary migrants to fill labour shortages. But there are claims some workers are being routinely exploited — paid as little as $30 a day for back-breaking labour, whil...

Two Australian veterans are awarded the third-highest military combat decoration from the United States for their service to the US during the Vietnam War.

The ex-Parramatta and Sydney Roosters player is on bail charged with five offences after being arrested in southern Sydney this morning.

In a year where statistical models and predictions were at the forefront of all Australians minds, the Behind the Lines exhibition has set out to showcase all the other — unexpected — things that 2021 had to offer.

The Argyle House nightclub COVID-19 cluster has grown to 150, after 650 people checked into an event there last Wednesday.

US troops will not be disciplined for launching a drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul in August. 

Footage of a "Dash for Cash" promotion, held during a hockey game in the US state of South Dakota, has prompted online outrage and sparked a national debate about school funding.

The cricket bat used by Sir Donald Bradman in the 1934 Ashes series is now the most expensive bat in the world.

Trefor Kingdon, 65, has pleaded guilty to stabbing his childhood sweetheart Mandy Melzer-Head to death at their remote rural home. On the night she died, the court heard, she texted him to say their relationship was over.

Victoria's Minister for Youth Justice, Natalie Hutchins, says she cannot guarantee an end to assaults on staff and young people at the troubled Malmsbury Youth Justice Centre.

The field for next year's Australia Decides is taking shape, but what do we know about the performers in the running to be Australia's 2022 Eurovision entrants, and what two names will we have to wait for? Check out our guide to the event. ...

With New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory in lockdown during August, new figures show nearly half the nation literally took their work home with them.

A US congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol votes unanimously to hold Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress.

The name Mark Meadows may not ring a bell, but a US committee investigating January's attack on the Capitol believes his testimony could be key.

An apologetic Basketball Australia has been caught out by an outdated rule that has been branded as "clear racial discrimination" by Melbourne Boomer Tiffany Mitchell.

The South Australian Government is rushing to "address all potential areas of exposure" after confirming 80,000 public sector workers' details had been accessed by hackers.

Outback residents say it's absurd that COVID testing is not available anywhere near the SA-NT border, particularly amid a scare at the nearby APY Lands.

Both the defence and the prosecution in Perth mother Milka Djurasovic's trial agree she should not be found guilty of murdering her young girls Tiana and Mia, because she was not of sound mind at the time.

A small town in the Territory outback will play host to a new technology that sucks water from the atmosphere to create hydrogen – and the government is backing it with action. 

A national milk haulage company says an extra two weeks' supply of AdBlue from Indonesia won't solve "price gouging" being experienced in Australia for the scarce diesel exhaust fluid.

Lawyers for Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald say the former NSW Labor ministers should be released on home detention ahead of an appeal against their conspiracy convictions.