The Liberal Party has held onto the Victorian seat of Nepean following yesterday's by-election.

A mother, father and their youngest son have been killed in what police allege was a gruesome triple murder in Sydney.

There’s a stark warning from the prime minister that the worst of the energy crisis may still be ahead.

A drone program is being launched in honour of a surfer who was killed in a shark attack in Sydney.

A 77-year-old woman fleeing fighting in Ukraine has made history after being rescued by an unmanned military robot.

Julia Baird reveals the concerning rise in the insidious movement to shut down the voices of Indigenous Australians

A 32-year-old man has been charged after three people died in an attack at a home in Rosemeadow.

Police, underworld and hospitality circles are baffled by a crime architect pouring tens of thousands of dollars into orchestrating attacks on bars, restaurants and strip clubs with no clear indication of their ultimate goal.

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On the face of it, the fight over Andrew Young’s will is the very opposite of the type of estate battle that titillates Sydney.

West Coast coach Andrew McQualter insists his side’s 11-point loss to injury-hit Richmond isn’t a catastrophe.

An 18-year-old man has died after a major crash which saw the Mitchell Freeway backed up for hours on Sunday morning. 

More than $2 billion is being tipped into housing in Western Australia in a joint state and Commonwealth effort to make it easier for first-home buyers to get into the market.

The court-ordered liquidation comes as shareholders in the troubled Western Melbourne Group scramble to find new lines of funding for a large sporting complex in Melbourne’s western fringe.

When Nick Panagiotopoulos began to feel sharp pains in his chest, he did what so many other Australians do in an emergency and called Triple Zero. 

Mark Mudie died when his front-end loader became engulfed in flames as he tried to set up a firebreak on his farm as a bushfire tore through WA’s south coast last year.

The singing and staging are superb in this new production of a play about First Nations sisters who found respect entertaining troops in Vietnam.

Experts say there are few surprises in the latest report from the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, despite “record high” consumption of meth, cocaine and heroin recorded.

The premier announced a plan on Sunday to hand government-owned land to private companies to build tanks – and even new refineries.

For the past year, reviews on Google have lauded the food and drink options and refreshing mud baths on Mud Islands. But not everything is as it seems.