The Prime Minister avoided public interactions during his highly anticipated visit to Lismore on Wednesday, despite dozens of people turning up to protest outside his press conference.

While mushrooms gain a foothold everywhere else.

The head of English at Moriah College, Cody Reynolds, has been charged with possessing and sharing child abuse material.

US President Joe Biden says he wants to thwart Russia’s “war machine”, damaging winds are forecast for Sydney after roads turned into rivers and Prime Minister Scott Morrison is due to tour flood-damaged parts of NSW today.

The deluge has killed at least two people and forced thousands to abandon their homes. But the weather is starting to look up.

Taking out his phone, Mick Fanning looked at the group video message from friend Joel Parkinson in the middle of the rising floods. It was bad. Real bad.

NSW authorities have warned communities at risk of major flooding in the Sydney region to evacuate or prepare to evacuate as the Hawkesbury, Nepean and Georges rivers rise. Floods and heavy rains have forced school closures and over 3000 calls for he...

As the state government passed contentious anti-Clive Palmer legislation its Premier was texting the mogul to praise and thank him for anti-Palmer front pages.

Under a proposed trial, people caught with small quantities of drugs would be issued a notice by police referring them to education or treatment.

The billionaire was due to personally argue his case in the Supreme Court on Wednesday in a bid to avoid criminal charges laid by ASIC – a bid that now appears set to fail.

Some of the city’s waterways could remain discoloured for a fortnight after being choked with stormwater pollution.

A Queensland man has been charged over accusations he assaulted a man before stealing his car and crashing it on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, injuring himself and two others.

Health authorities plan to vaccinate at-risk groups against the mosquito-borne disease that has claimed the lives of people in Victoria and NSW. 

Dr Cesidio “Ces” Colagrande is suing Dr Min Sik “Mitchell” Kim and his wife Anna Min in the Federal Court, claiming they were behind a defamatory online review.

A man in his 70s from the Riverina region who died in a Sydney hospital last month is the state’s first death from the mosquito-borne virus.

The missing three-year-old’s foster father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has been accused of lying to the NSW Crime Commission.

About 1400 Queensland students are being taken out of class every day with COVID-19, prompting calls for them to be offered more support.

Two “frightened” Afghan men were pulled from a tunnel by Australian troops and taken away for questioning by war veteran Ben Roberts-Smith before one of the men was killed, the Federal Court has heard.

The prosecution and defence teams have finished addressing the jury in the trial of Constable Zachary Rolfe, who is accused of murdering Aboriginal man Kumanjayi Walker.

Frustrated drivers are flooding local councils with thousands of reports of potholes, which are damaging cars in Sydney and regional NSW.

Lisa Neville has defended Victoria Police after 14 prominent law firms and community legal centres voiced their dismay over the handling of the swearing-in scandal, reiterating their calls for an independent body to specifically monitor the force.

Coal workers should be included in talks as businessman Mike Cannon-Brookes and AGL tussle over ownership of the energy giant.

The amended “very high caseload settings” mean young primary school students and daycare children will no longer be required to isolate if another person in their classroom tests positive. 

The systemic barriers that caused some communities to become coronavirus hotspots have persisted, and they remain “underserved by mainstream health systems”, one expert has warned.

A Perth man will front court next month after being accused of using a fake vaccination passport to enter a Fremantle pub.

David Elliott said train crews needed time to clear and repair any damage to the network and warned of “extreme” delays and widespread cancellations on Wednesday.

Former CCC chairman Alan MacSporran told colleagues negative reporting had become “a serious distraction to our ability to simply do our work”.

US physicist Brian Greene says Einstein still has things to teach us, as he launches the World Science Festival Brisbane in a digital form for the third year in a row.

“Endo” often goes undetected and can cause women hoping to conceive to lose many fertile years before they discover the cause. One researcher is trying to develop a ‘calculator’ for it.

The 87-year-old is accused of committing an additional 24 offences against two male victims in Mortlake in 1981 and 1982.

Dame Joan Sutherland remarked he seemed to be covering Bellini’s opera Norma like a football match.

Captain Haddock’s colourful expletives were sanitised into such memorable expressions as “blistering barnacles!”

If Palmer copped the highest defamation payout in Australian history it would cost him less than two days’ pay – and no-one would change their opinion of him.

Severe thunderstorms bringing large hail and heavy rain that may lead to flash flooding could hit SEQ, the weather bureau warns. 

Behold the modern day celebrity agent meet-cute for the ages

The contest to replace the retiring Health Minister as Flinders MP is shaping up to be a curiously genteel affair.

We are all back in lockdown, not decreed by government, but by a raging Mother Nature.

Too much humidity changes conditions in gardens which are now ripe with bacteria, fungi and other juicy growths. Some are stunning; some smell horrendous.

Members of an alleged drug-trafficking syndicate are attempting to have evidence against them thrown out after it was revealed undercover police were not properly authorised to purchase the illicit drugs used to lay charges against them.

If the renewed threat of nuclear conflict doesn’t prompt our political leaders – and those who aspire to lead – to adopt more serious modes of behaviour, it’s hard to imagine what will.

In the heart of the Margaret River wine region a fight is brewing with wineries banding together to protest plans for luxury tourist accommodation in Wilyabrup.

At least two people have died, thousands are homeless and wild winds are set to create more havoc as Sydney is hit by record rains.

The location of Australia’s nuclear submarine base is one of strategic importance. Australia would do well to remember the fall of Singapore, when the defences were all pointing at the south but it was invaded from the north.

It’s a surreal thing, and don’t mention the GST.

Just days after the Herald met Eric Malpas, the “globe-trotting troubadour” was arrested for assaulting police.

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

Moscow has offered Ukrainians escape routes to Russia and its ally Belarus, former NSW minister Andrew Constance says his state’s disaster response has not improved since the Black Summer bushfires and Shane Warne’s body will be flown home today.

The ex-PM says the naming of Brisbane as a potential nuclear submarine base shows the Coalition is playing catch-up on national security, while a political expert says the possibility of becoming a nuclear target will turn many voters off.

Fifty metres in the air above a construction site, a photographer and his son in the crane’s basket heard a desperate voice crackle through on the radio from the ground.

Sussex Inlet has been told to evacuate now as a woman’s body was found by police in a stormwater canal in Sydney’s west.