Police could not have stopped a man from taking a lethal dose of cyanide while they were arresting him, a coroner has found.

Residents have been airlifted off roofs as town centres are inundated, with some communities told to stay indoors amid ...

Mental health will be the central issue in the case of a grandma accused of murdering her two young grandsons in their rural ...

A box of cow dung dumped at the door of Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has her steamed off and has prompted calls for a ...

The WHO says vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 has been detected in stool specimens of two healthy children in Papua New ...

Liberal heavyweight John Howard has slammed the Coalition's breakup as a "stupid move", and has backed nuclear power.

George Wendt, an actor with an everyman charm who played affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit TV comedy Cheers has ...

Commuter chaos caused by a "nowhere-near-good-enough" power outage on Sydney's train network has continued into a second day.

Once the schadenfreude settles, there are some very serious questions to be asked about the Coalition’s split.

The RBA has cut the official interest rate again, as it lowered forecasts for Australian growth and pointed to increasing ...

A police officer accused of murdering a television presenter and his partner will face court more than a year after the pair ...