The schoolgirl pulled a handgun from her backpack and fired multiple rounds inside and outside the school in the small city of Rigby, Idaho, a sheriff said.

The Sharks will be aiming to spring one of the upsets of the season when they take on the unbeaten Panthers in the night’s early kick-off. Then it’s a battle of premiership contenders at Bankwest Stadium.

There are 173 Australian children stuck in India without their parents, and they are the top priority as six flights are planned for the remainder of May.

Hannah Quinn has avoided jail after she provided assistance to her boyfriend in the days after he fatally struck an armed intruder in the head with a samurai sword in Sydney’s inner west.

Ella Baxter’s first novel follows the experiences of a funeral parlour cosmetician who experiences grief for the first time.

The week in photos from the award winning Sydney Morning Herald and Financial review photographers.

The $1.86 billion project is now expected to become operational in the first half of 2022, 18 months after its original completion date of December 2020 and 6 months after the revised date of late 2021. 

The ABC says it did not defame the former attorney-general but it can prove there were reasonable grounds for suspecting him of raping a woman in the 1980s when he was a teenager.

This comes as the mystery of how an eastern suburbs couple caught a COVID-19 infection brought into hotel quarantine by a US traveller remains unsolved.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at The Coast meeting.

Collingwood should expect to be relegated out of prime time for the vast majority of their remaining games this year in what will be a final indignity.

WA recorded no new local cases of coronavirus on Friday as it prepared to ease mask and crowd restrictions.

It’s what media and fans are not talking about this season that says most about the game’s evolution.

This preparation has been frustrating for Matthew Smith with Nimalee, but she has won at group 2 level and gets to The Coast at Gosford on Saturday with some freshness in her legs.

Nine ambulances were waiting to offload patients outside Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on Friday afternoon, with the ED operating beyond capacity.

Private equity giant Apollo faces an uphill battle winning crucial support for its bid for Tabcorp’s wagering division.

The Australian Sports Commission apologises for abuses at the AIS in Canberra, and sports integrity’s head honcho says Australian sport will change forever.

A ferocious boom in housing overwhelming the banks is stoking concerns about consumer debt, amid signs some buyers are becoming more cautious about overpaying

Actor Elaine Crombie says a new production of The 7 Stages of Grieving, about Indigenous Australian history, is as relevant today as when it was written 26 years ago.

The world No.1 will play in the Madrid Open final on Sunday as she continues a remarkable run on red clay that not even the Australian saw coming.

Four villagers who allege Ben Roberts-Smith was involved in the unlawful death of an Afghan farmer faced the risk of violent repercussions from the Taliban if details about them were disclosed before a coming defamation trial, a court has heard.

The judgment will extend the jostling for the new seat of Hawke in Melbourne’s north-west, where three candidates put their hands up to be preselected on Friday.

Local media suggested a home-made explosive device was planted on a motorcycle parked near his car.

Today on Please Explain, Tory Maguire and The Age’s state political editor Annika Smethurst speak about the leaked report on Victoria’s hotel quarantine failures.

Ahead of the federal budget, the Reserve Bank has urged the federal government to adopt the Olympic motto of citius, altius, fortius.

Iron ore hit a record $US200 a tonne on Friday as concerns about Beijing’s dispute with Canberra prompt China’s importers to store up the critical resource.

The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has worked hard to keep his private life just that, but the announcement of his split from wife Melinda has huge ramifications. 

The writer, who died last week, is remembered by Elliot Perlman for her searing honesty and incisive writing.

From thingamajig to dooverlackie, decoding the mysterious sayings of adults is still no easy task.

The Underground Railroad, about the flight of American slaves to freedom, took an emotional toll on its cast and crew, says the Oscar-winning director.

The American writer’s last novel was written in Italian and translated into English. This time she has done the translation herself.

Drummer Jim White joins the pioneering musician as part of Melbourne’s RISING festival.

Mark McKenna’s investigation exposes how a man once described as a hero of the law committed a brutal killing.

It isn’t the tree’s age-old, symbolic significance that forms the focus of this exhibition; it’s the destruction of wilderness that threatens the very basis of human life.

A new podcast tells the story of the man who started a phoneline for New Yorkers to apologise for their wrongdoings.

In the era of fake news, an existential crisis awaits Melbourne Theatre Company audiences.

A spot of daydreaming at a birthday party sparked an interesting question about a boring problem.

Clunes’ annual festival returned but with some significant differences.

Chilean director Pablo Larrain isn’t interested in happy endings and works very hard on mystery.

Australian publishing has had its fair share of charismatic editors, as Craig Munro reveals in Literary Lion Tamers.

Linda Jaivin has a terrific eye for telling detail in her entertaining history of China.

Emma Stonex’s mystery about the disappearance of lighthouse keepers is atmospheric and evocative.

Chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake called on industries with large transportation fleets, such as the mining sector, to convert to electric vehicles.

The on-field return of Wests Tigers favourite Robbie Farah immediately improved the performance of his “Lebo mate” Adam Doueihi.

They’re a favourite punching bag of coaches, players and fans, but how do the NRL’s match review committee actually come up with those calls which spark outrage?

Clubs rarely reappoint coaches who have not won a premiership in their first 10 years at a club, but then, how many coaches have won a final in each of their past three seasons?

The bloodshed lays bare Brazil’s perennial divide over whether, as a common local saying goes, “a good criminal is a dead criminal”.

The Reserve Bank is relying on households to spend billions of dollars of savings over the next few years to underpin its sharply upgraded forecasts for the nation’s economic growth.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is under renewed pressure to dump Andrew Laming from the Coalition party room when the embattled backbencher returns to Parliament next week. 

In a rare double act, the global phenomenon Bluey is almost as popular with adults as it is with kids. As creator Joe Brumm explains, that’s no accident.