Serena Williams is knocked out of the US Open by Australian Ajla Tomljanović, signalling the end of a glittering career that includes 23 grand slam titles.

Serena Williams tops most of the winning stats you could want to talk about in tennis, but even that doesn't quantify the impact of her 20-plus-year career at the top of the sport.

Krishna Sen and her partner David Hill drove across the whole width of the country — from Perth to Melbourne, then Sydney, and back to Perth — in an electric car. This is how it went.

In the late 1980s, Matthew Rose found a coach who could turn him into the next Dennis Lillee. Instead, like dozens of other elite cricketers in the ACT, he was preyed on by sexual abuser. Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of...

Australian Ajla Tomljanović appears to have ended Serena Williams's playing career. The US crowd might have been forgiven for being a little upset, but Tomljanović charmed them with her humility.

Grace Tame has had to face down any variety of contempt or ignorance, or cowardly denial, and she'll do it as often as she has to, no matter whose skirts you might try to hide behind, writes Virginia Trioli.

The daughter of a woman who lay dead for more than two hours on the ground of a supported residential service calls for changes to the system that "failed" her mother, after giving devastating evidence at the disability royal commission. ...

Minor premiers Geelong have been the best team of 2022, but Collingwood's incredible season has them primed for a qualifying-final upset. Follow the action in our live blog.

Residents on the Mid North Coast and northern NSW remain on alert as a low pressure system off the east coast intensifies, bringing the risk of flooding with it.

Zimbabwe records its first ODI victory over Australia on Australian soil, stunning the hosts by three wickets in the final match of their bi-lateral series.

Health ministers nationwide agree to a series of reforms to ensure doctors providing cosmetic procedures are appropriately qualified and working to the highest standards.

Bondi Rescue lifeguard Terry McDermott, who died on Thursday, has been remembered as a "selfless man" who saved countless lives.

A new government, concrete action taken in the wake of the jobs summit and a Reserve Bank hell bent on returning the economy to balance could produce quite a bit of change. And for many, it's deeply unsettling, writes David Taylor.

The Matildas have fallen to a 1-0 defeat against Olympic champions Canada at Lang Park thanks to an Adrianna Leon stunner. 

While Australia is on high alert over foot-and-mouth disease, experts are sounding the alarm about another livestock virus that's spread by mosquitoes

The trial of former Sydney schoolteacher Chris Dawson illustrates guilty verdicts in a circumstantial murder case may be rare, but experts say circumstantial evidence can be "extremely damning" — if it all lines up.

Emergency services watchdog says understaffing and failings within triple-0 contributed to the deaths of 33 Victorians.

It's one of Queensland's last coastal suburbs with blocks of land under $300,000. But this beach haven is about to undergo a metamorphosis that's been decades in the making. 

Unsealed court records reveal new details of the documents and photographs recovered by the FBI from Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

As COVID rules continue changing, more Australian families are navigating decisions around their handling of the pandemic for themselves.

Putting ideas into policy action will be one of the biggest challenges facing a government that has somehow repositioned itself now as a reforming one, writes Laura Tingle.

The Broncos are trying to stay in the finals race when they meet the Dragons, while the Titans launch a stunning comeback to beat the Warriors in golden-point extra time. Follow our NRL ScoreCentre.

The mothballed Dartbrook coal mine in the Hunter Valley had three sale bids, but all options have since hit snags.

Go Ask Alice takes readers on the wild journey of a teen dabbling in psychedelic drugs and sliding into a psychotic breakdown. The story behind the diary is somehow even more perplexing.

Andrew Robertson isn't nervous about putting a pool in his rental, but he's signed no ordinary contract.