Residents of Echuca are on edge as the Murray River continues to rise, as Kerang braces for flooding. The Bureau of Meteorology has warned that more rain is on the way for already sodden and flooded parts of Victoria.

Gregory Lee Roser has been found guilty of what the victim's son called the "most gruesome and evil" woodchipper murder.

The last question of the extension 2 paper is notoriously difficult, but this year’s was “out of reach” for even some of the best students.

Home-built billycarts will go flying down the main street of one of Melbourne’s inner northern suburbs this weekend in an event that feels very “North Melbourne”.

A new western Sydney development is offering high-end apartments to low-income earners as affordable housing.

A man who bashed a grandmother outside a Melbourne church has been sent to jail.

A woman has been killed in a hit-and-run in regional South Australia.

A car crashed through the glass front window of the childcare centre in Melbourne’s north about 9am.

HAZMAT crews called to the electoral commission building in.

Watch James Ruse Agricultural High School student Prithika Dhiwaharan solve one of the hardest Mathematics Extension 2 exam questions.

An Aussie family has been kicked off a flight from Bali to Sydney for allegedly abusing the crew.

Four people including a child have been taken to hospital, after a car ploughed into a family daycare office in Melbourne's north.

A coroner has found missing Belgian Backpacker Theo Hayez who vanished in Byron Bay is dead.

Notorious Melbourne serial killer Paul Denyer has applied for parole, after spending the past three decades behind bars.

Medibank CEO apologises to Australians who remain uncertain about compromised data following cyber attack.

As the water continues to rise, Kerang residents are confident they are better prepared now than they were in the past.

Has Barangaroo been a good thing or a missed opportunity? What is good? What is bad? What went wrong and what was done right?

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

A man who bashed a grandmother outside a Melbourne church has been sent to jail.

Notorious Melbourne serial killer Paul Denyer has applied for parole, after spending the past three decades behind bars.