King Charles III has been proclaimed head of state in Australia, with the prime minister, governor-general and government ministers fulfilling that duty today.

A 25-year-old man has been taken to hospital after being pulled unconscious from the surf at a popular beach in Sydney's north.

Depending on which crown King Charles III wears at his coronation, Queensland’s state flag will most likely change.

In an interview with Sky News UK, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said now was the time to commemorate the Queen's life, not focus on a republic.

Several mall businesses on Crown Street fear the council’s planned upgrade will once again make Surry Hills a construction zone after years of light rail disruption and COVID.

It’s been two months since Lauie Tagaloa was stabbed to death at a Brisbane train station, the incident filmed and still circulating online.

St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne, which Queen Elizabeth II first visited in 1954, is hosting a Solemn Choral Evensong on Sunday night.

Health officials are racing to determine the source of more than 40 locally acquired cases of monkeypox, as doctors warn diagnosis is complicated by symptoms closely mirroring sexually transmitted infections including syphilis and herpes.

Astronomer Frank Drake pretty much started the modern scientific enterprise known as SETI – the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence.

A pilot has died after his light plane crashed in bushland in Queensland’s north.

Run off-road crashes occur primarily on country roads, accounting for about 40 per cent of all road deaths every year, says a new federal government report.

Bonnie Hancock has completed her record-breaking, eight-month journey around Australia in a surf ski.

Thousands of Sydneysiders have gathered at the country’s oldest parliament to witness the NSW proclamation of King Charles III, before a 21-gun salute echoed through the city.

Two of the state’s top selective schools have become embroiled in a chat room scandal that included racist, homophobic and violent misogynist posts.

An allegation a Jewish boy was stuffed in a school locker to simulate a Nazi gas chamber comes amid a growing number of anti-Semitism incidents, says NSW Jewish Board of Deputies chief executive Darren Bark.

Onlookers said the 20-year-old driver and passenger were screaming for help as they desperately tried to smash open the windows of the car.

A little girl in Australia received a letter from the Queen the day of her passing.

60 years ago, American U-2 pilot, Eddie Dunagan, lost nearly 3kg in weight during a six-hour flight at 60,000 feet from Fiji to Laverton. Two U-2 jets were in Melbourne to take upper air samples south of Australia for fall-out and radioactivity tests...

Britain’s longest-serving monarch has died, Buckingham Palace has announced.

Australians will be given September 22 as a public holiday to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II.