A man broke into floods of tears as he avoided jail for driving a boat dangerously while drunk before a catastrophic crash ...

State and territory health ministers have rejected a Commonwealth public hospital funding offer, as an ageing population ...

Japan has lifted a tsunami advisory issued ​after an earthquake with a magnitude ⁠of 6.9 hit the country's northeastern ...

Australia's largest aluminium smelter has been handed a government lifeline to ensure it keeps running beyond 2028 ...

Reality TV star Matt Wright displayed a "real callousness" by trying to get a badly injured pilot to falsify helicopter ...

A landmark finding that police committed battery and were "inhumane" in using capsicum spray against protesters should end ...

Ex-senator Linda Reynolds' bid to have Brittany Higgins bankrupted has succeeded, but the former politician says it's ...

National Australia Bank shareholders have rejected resolutions related to deforestation, but its chairman says he has ...

Severe rainfall has triggered major flooding in the US state of Washington, prompting evacuation orders for tens ...

Its case is the second High Court challenge to the social media laws, with a separate case being brought by two teenagers, ...

Anthony Albanese has asked the parliamentary expenses watchdog for advice on travel entitlements as the opposition ramps ...

On Monday, a 7.5-magnitude quake shook the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan's main island of ...