Bayside City Council has spent $3 million on a new mega-playground that includes a three level castle, a DJ Booth and flying foxes.

A woman in her 90s has died with COVID-19 and NSW has recorded 77 new local cases, with 33 infectious in the community.

The trial of 53-year-old former strawberry-farm supervisor My Ut Trinh is set to begin on Monday in the Brisbane District Court.

When frazzled parents contemplate juggling work while caring for their children, the scales often tip in favour of sending their children to school. But it is not safe to do so.

Will nanobots and brain chips help us thrive – or could cyborgs wipe us out?

The Australian Medical Association admitted the changing advice was “annoying” and “confusing” but Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said it was a case of weighing up “immediate protection versus longer-term protection”.

Victoria will shut its border to all of New South Wales and the ACT from 11.59pm Sunday, but the border bubble will remain in place. 

The genders are pitted against each other in a dystopian reality.

The strongest cold front of the year is set to hit the state’s coastline, bringing unusually heavy rainfall and damaging winds just in time for the Monday morning commute.

The evidence-based case for phonics is being blocked and that must change.

A group of First Nations organisations hope their push for a national program will tackle racism, foster true reconciliation and bridge the knowledge gap on Indigenous history.

Twenty-five years ago I was a struggling stand-up comedian with no professional skills apart from being able to cut my own hair in the shower with a Gillette Mach 3 razor.

The woman who died acquired the virus from a close family member. And NSW’s Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has said older people should bring forward their second AstraZeneca dose.

The arrests, across six south-east Queensland suburbs on Sunday, came a day after that of an alleged Mongols boss in Ipswich.

Emergency services performed CPR on the five-week-old baby boy, but he could not be revived. The dog will be euthanised.

The 36-year-old chased a group of four men from the home he shared with his partner and their two-year-old before being shot in the chest. 

Deborah Glass had teenage ambitions to save the world. Her career has taken her across it. Now she handles complaints from about 45,000 Victorians a year.

A month after extraordinary wind gusts tore across Victoria and left communities without power and heating for weeks, volunteer groups in the Dandenongs are worried the area’s treasured fauna and flora are being forgotten.

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

More jobs in more industries, says Gladstone mayor and Labor candidate Matt Burnett. That’s the message.

Making a military officer the leader – the public face – of the vaccine rollout is not just a mistake, it is counter-productive.

We so assumed that in this state our systems were better than yours.

People living alone during Sydney’s lockdown have been urged to maintain a reasonable sleep routine, avoid blurring the lines between work-life and home-life, and reach out to friends and family in a way that works for them.

The risks people take in life reveal what they truly value. Getting a true measure on that will be tough under COVID restrictions.

Australia could take some pointers from overseas to boost its laggardly vaccination rollout.

I’m not sure what sort of faith drives Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson, but it will certainly have been challenged this week.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, so what will 14 days in self-isolation do for a family with young children in a two-bedroom flat?

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today's interactive superquiz and target.

We’ve got this, Sydney – the hyper-infectious Delta strain, sure, but also the ability to overcome.

Sivan Stern is one of thousands of pregnant women who face a difficult dilemma: she has the green light to get a COVID-19 vaccine but - aged under 40 - she is ineligible.

Students are frustrated that history could now repeat itself, but hoping it will all work out.

Nine out of the 10 digital platforms surveyed required a university degree to understand their terms and conditions, yet allowed children as young as 13 years old to join.

An army of Southern Highlands socialites is determined to back a winner in the coming local council elections.

Transport for NSW executives were given payrises of up to 12 per cent while other workers’ wages are capped.

A golf course in Lane Cove faces an uncertain future as a council pursues the development of an indoor sports facility.

Showing certain imagery related to the COVID-19 jab in public vaccination campaigns may be counterproductive.

Last July was a high point for winter tourism on the South Coast as Sydney residents busted out after the first lockdown. This year it is the worst on record and most say there is little chance of recovery for months.

Rebellion at the Celtic Club over a decision to sell the pub that was its home has escalated into a legal fight involving allegations of financial mismanagement, alcoholism and not being Irish enough.

From luxury cruises to PCR tests - meet the travel agents working frantically behind the scenes to bring Australians home.

Health experts have warned even the best tracing systems will not be able to control the outbreak unless the movement of people is contained and testing rates rise, as Sydney recorded the highest daily number in 15 months.

Grey skies and empty streets as Sydney's lockdown restrictions tighten.

In the wild west, sheriffs pinned up “wanted” posters in saloons to catch an outlaw. These days, law enforcement relies on Facebook to help identify a suspect. But what happens when someone is falsely accused?

Sydney is bracing for a lockdown that could stretch for weeks as surging case numbers prompt tighter restrictions, while a new advertising campaign for the nation’s vaccine rollout will begin on Sunday.

A 30-year-old man has been charged with murder and another man is facing an accessory to murder charge in connection to missing Doveton man Brendon Farrell.

Victorian health officials could shut the border to NSW ‘in the coming hours or days’” to prevent the growing Sydney outbreak from spreading into the state.

The captain was originally accused of multiple indecent acts in front of a Papua New Guinea nurse but has now won a retrial.

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

A man in his 30s is in hospital after he was stabbed on a train in Melbourne’s west last night.

Dr Raymond Chan is among 593 Australians engaged to be married, and whose future spouses have visas to come to Australia but are stuck worlds apart due to the travel ban.

It’s now been 18 months since most of us took an overseas sojourn, so what are we doing with all that annual leave?