Police are set to charge a man with a range of offences after he carjacked a woman and held a father and his toddler inside a ...

There has been chaos at airports across Australia after airlines cancelled flights to and from Bali following a volcanic eruption that spewed ash kilometres into the air. The groundings affected ...

Extraordinary growth in renewable energy is not enough to offset the "humungous challenge" of Australia's fossil fuels, a ...

A elderly woman’s level of dementia meant she would have been unable to comply with orders barked at her by a police officer ...

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is backing away from a pledge to cut taxes for wealthy Australians, blaming a federal ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the global Anglican communion, has resigned over an abuse scandal.

Remote parts of central Australia have been rattled by cyclonic wind gusts that tore roofs from buildings and cut power, as a “relentless” stormy weather system heads east. The weather bureau issued a ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers believes Australia is well placed to deal with global financial shocks despite the looming threat of ...

In June, the Alzheimer’s Association controversially revised its diagnostic criteria. From now on Alzheimer’s disease (AD) “should be defined biologically, not based on a clinical syndrome(s ...

Fruit and vegetable growers say they lack bargaining power against the supermarket giants. Photo: AAP Fruit and vegetable providers depend on supermarkets but lack negotiating power and face ...

A massive water pipe has burst in Sydney’s south, sending jets of water into nearby houses. Emergency crews were in Binya Place, Como, on Friday afternoon, where a 1.5-metre-wide pipe was shooting out ...

A hunt is on for 43 monkeys that have escaped from a medical research compound in South Carolina. Yemassee Police Chief Gregory Alexander said there was “almost no danger” to the public. “They are not ...