Police allege the bar locked its doors, blacked windows, removed check-in posters and hosted several hundred people for a New Year's Eve party, despite ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

As the number of infections in NSW surge, tired and overworked healthcare workers say they were left with no choice but to support reducing the COVID isolation rules that will see close contact asymptomatic staff back at work.

Health advice made public under Victoria's pandemic laws reveals the Health Minister did not implement the Chief Health Officer's recommended restrictions over the Christmas period, including density limits and closure of dance floors.   ...

Receiving a text revealing you have tested positive to COVID is a big moment, filled with uncertainty about what is to come. Yet it’s also oddly anticlimactic: the text arrives … then … nothing. So what should you do next?

The 17-year-old girl's body was found just after 2:00pm on Saturday following an extensive aerial, ground and water search.

A man is in police custody after allegedly driving a car through a tent with two adults and three children sleeping inside at a campground early on New Year's Day — with a witness saying the man had to be saved from a "lynch mob" after th...

Vet says farmers are destroying thousands of animals caught in flames and smoke after a grassfire that crossed into Victoria from South Australia last night.

The Christmas trees are spinifex and the town's electronic temperature gauge is cooked, but Marble Bar's close-knit community just carries on with life in a furnace.

NT Police say the child was found this morning after he was reported missing from a home in a remote community yesterday. No information has been given about the cause of the boy's death.

Recreational boaters off Eden, on the NSW far south coast, have captured on camera tiger sharks and a great white shark feeding on a sperm whale carcass. 

Fellow actors and comedians, as well as broadcasters and politicians, pay tribute to beloved US television star Betty White on social media following her death on Friday, aged 99.

The local appears in court on New Year's Day, charged over a violent mass fight in Hasting St this week.

Starting tomorrow, masks will be required in all indoor settings in Queensland, except the family home, to slow the spread of COVID-19, as the state records 2,266 new cases in just 12 hours.

Large swells and dangerous surf conditions are expected along the south-east coast throughout the long weekend, with the category one system forecast to strengthen as it tracks south.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un caps off his 10th year in power with a speech that makes more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States.

Travis Head's positive COVID result opens the door for Usman Khawaja to return for the fourth Ashes Test, while the rest of Australia's playing squad and support staff test negative.

Shayna Jack's coach Dean Boxall has detailed the depths his banned star, who returned to competition last month, endured during a 901-day absence from the pool.

Confidential cabinet records from one of the most pivotal years in recent memory have been released today, giving a glimpse at how the Howard government grappled with some of the most tumultuous moments in Australia.

Thousands were honoured in this year's New Year honours list, with the majority being recognised for their work in helping fight the pandemic. Here are some of the more famous names to have made the list.

In 1946, Trevor McKenzie was sentenced to death for murdering a man over his choice of radio station. Archival documents shed new light on this 75-year-old murder.  

NSW starts the new year with a slight increase in COVID-19 cases, with the state recording 22,577 new infections and four deaths.

For the second day running, South Australia reports more than 2,000 new cases, while the number of COVID-positive patients in hospital almost doubles to 71.

When a huge sandstorm spun an ultramarathon runner off-course in the Sahara with meagre supplies, Mauro Prosperi knew there was only one person who could save him from certain death: himself. 

New Year's Eve celebrations around the world are mostly cancelled or scaled-back as new COVID-19 infections surge, however, some cities still throw a party.

Australia's second-longest-serving prime minister, John Howard, says there is still hope for democracy in China, although he is disappointed by how it has changed since he was in power.