Residents ‘smashed’ as cyclone barrels towards coast
Communities are on alert as category one cyclone Koji inches towards far north Queensland with up to 200mm of rain recorded overnight
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People affected by devastating bushfires ravaging a state will have access to financial support under an assistance package worth millions of dollars.
The weight-loss journey for a growing number of Australians using "miracle" medications must include exercise or risk long-term health problems, experts warn.
Police are seeking to identify a man and a woman following theft at a retail store in Gungahlin.
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Missing trio found safe in Victorian bushfire crisis
Three people missing in Victoria's bushfires are safe and well, although dozens of properties have been destroyed at multiple fire scenes.
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Extreme heat but no fire emergency yet beyond Victoria
As bushfires rage in Victoria, other parts of Australia's southeast are sweltering amid extreme heat ahead of an expected cooler change.
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Man charged with biting, strangling partner
A 25-year-old Hughes man, who was on parole, has been charged after allegedly kicking, biting and strangling his partner.
The ACT has recorded its first road fatality for the year following a two-vehicle collision on the Monaro Highway on Friday morning.
More than 140 drivers were charged with drink or drug driving during a targeted impaired driving operation conducted across the ACT last month.
Polling shows the coalition and One Nation are neck and neck in the popularity stakes in the first public nationwide survey since the Bondi massacre.
The southeast of Australia is enduring some of its hottest temperatures in nearly a decade as a brutal mix of heat and wind prompts alarm from authorities.
Residents of the saturated far north are preparing for another round of severe weather as a dangerous system approaches the Queensland coast.
A 45-year-old man is facing court after allegedly stalking his former partner and repeatedly breaching a family violence order.
Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury says failing to address the health impacts of climate change will leave more Canberrans exposed to harm from extreme weather and place further strain on public services.
Josh Frydenberg says the Jewish community will support Bondi attacks royal commission chair Virginia Bell as the anti-Semitism probe "needed to be successful".
A 30-year-old man has been charged with reckless sexual intercourse without consent after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman known to him at a party last year.
A total fire ban has been declared for the ACT on Saturday, the first since 2020.
Australian researchers have been barking up the right tree with a revolutionary discovery of resident microbes that guzzle climate-active gases.
As temperatures soar above 45C across Australia, simply staying alive is the number one priority for heat-stressed humans and animals.
