Police say Stephen Barker, 74, murdered his wife Christine at the couple’s Bronte home on Thursday night.

Melbourne was pelted with rain and some homes reported flooding as Premier Daniel Andrews said emergency services were prepared for flooding that could hit the state over the coming weeks.

The Queensland Police Union boss has slammed the reporting of the inquiry into domestic violence, saying it has unfairly given officers across the state a bad name.

Fisheries crews have freed a mother whale and her calf after the pair became entangled in a shark net off the Sunshine Coast.

Andrew Thorburn’s forced exit from Essendon has crystallised insecurities held by people of faith about holding moral views against the secular majority. 

National Crime Authority bomber Domenic Perre will likely die in jail after being sentenced to life in prison for the deadly blast in 1994.

A man who confessed to stealing a car with a four-month-old baby inside is fighting in court to withdraw his guilty pleas.

Two parents whose daughter died of a treatable heart condition are campaigning for a new law in her honour to prevent another tragedy.

Brittany Higgins is back in the witness box under cross-examination as the alleged rape trial enters a fourth day.

NRL Star Curtis Scott found guilty of assaulting and threatening his former girlfriend during their two year relationship.

The Essendon-Thorburn saga highlights that never before have Australians known so little about the foundational text of Australia’s biggest religion. And never before, it seems, had such strong opinions on it.

The Federal Treasurer prepares to deliver his first budget amid a fast deteriorating global economic situation.

A man's arm has almost been severed in a shark attack at Port Hedland off Western Australia's coast.

Sunrise host David Koch interviewed pastor Guy Mason of City on a Hill, the church at the centre of the Essendon saga, on Thursday.

Despite glimpses of sunshine on Friday morning, Sydneysiders were sadly just basking in a brief calm before the storm.

St John WA confirmed outgoing Perth Airport chief executive Kevin Brown would join the organisation in January.

A man in his 30s has been rushed to hospitals with injuries believed to have been sustained in a shark attack.

The baby was taken to Collie Hospital on September 26, and due to his serious condition was moved to Perth Children’s Hospital, but died on October 5.

An operation is underway to retrieve the body of a 20-year-old man who died after an abseiling accident in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

The two leaders are locked in a standoff over how to fund a promised $1.6 billion rapid-bus project to connect urban centres to Sydney’s new airport.