No one told Muhammed Shahid when he picked up his taxi for his shift in Melbourne that another driver had died in the same vehicle the night before.

Parts of the D’Aguilar and Bruce highways have been cordoned off as specialist police use drones to search for the man who allegedly fired shots.

The national sergeant-at-arms of the bikie gang overcame the authorities’ attempts to keep him under control in NSW and despite COVID-19 travel restrictions.

After weeks under the toughest border regime in place between the states throughout the pandemic, wider cross-border travel will return with 12 NSW local government areas from 1am Monday.

A 34-year-old truck driver who recently travelled through New South Wales and into Western Australia has been charged over alleged breaches of emergency laws put in place because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

​Moses Obeid “could be dead by the end of the year” if he was sent to jail while Covid-19 was in the NSW prison system, his barrister told court.

Greg Domaszewicz must donate $100 to charity after a run-in with a group of cricketers over a remote-controlled car.

The opposition proposed a bill under which offenders could be punished for the public display of swastikas, with exemptions for its use by religious communities.

Portraits of a war-battered country, from moments of high drama to the superhuman will to endure. Contains graphic content.

The footage allegedly shows a live rabbit being thrown into a bin of carcasses as another lies dead on the ground. Others appear to be suffering from open wounds and exposed bones.

Margaret Lowden, who suffers from early onset dementia and requires a walking frame, was found in thick bush close to her Greenfields retirement home.

A sunny weekend ahead as the weather warms up in NSW.

Victoria Police has issued four more fines to worshippers who attended an illegal gathering in Melbourne’s inner-south, while another man has been charged over the alleged assault of a news cameraman on Tuesday evening.

Halfway through burying a man whose penis had been cut off after he was violently bashed, Byron Naylor and his accomplice left the body in the forest to go buy a new shovel, a court has heard.

Malcolm Traill, who had been working for a complementary medicine provider, has been temporarily banned from offering any health services while an official investigation is under way.

The counsel assisting also recommended 23 adverse findings against a Sydney-based care provider accused of failing to prevent violence and abuse towards vulnerable clients.

The NSW government plans to have the first groups of children returning to school on October 25 and all students back by November 8; up to three weeks after vaccinated adults could return to pubs.

The WA budget reveals the state’s domestic economy grew by 4.3 per cent, driven by business investment and retail spending as well as upticks in home and car purchases.

Up to 100 V/Line services could be interrupted by the end of Friday after a train driver and conductor tested positive to COVID-19.

Today on Please Explain, North America correspondent Matthew Knott joins Nathanael Cooper to look at what has occurred in the past two decades since the September 11 attacks.

As the pandemic makes planning for the future difficult, many are turning to the past instead and reconnecting with old friends.

More recyclables are being sent to landfill during COVID-19 lockdowns as Victorians isolating at home put take-away food containers, coffee cups and parcel delivery wrapping in the wrong bin.

Liz Hayes and Jamelle Wells are veteran journalists - but on Friday they spoke out as daughters who both lost their fathers in tragic circumstances.

The scars left by Matthew Guy’s 2018 “law and order” election campaign targeting African youths are still raw.

Federal Labor on Friday announced $2 million for a business case to push a new rail line through Australia’s fastest-growing region.

Two people were driving along Woori Yallock Road in Cockatoo on Friday morning when a tree fell, Victoria Police believe.

Queensland authorities are now managing two new COVID-19 scares as they announced a lifting of travel restrictions with some NSW border regions from Monday.

As the weather cools in the US, the real panic about what it means to live with COVID is kicking in. At least this time, we have some tools that weren’t there last year.

Sydney’s Film Club and Melbourne’s Picture Search are now oddities, but hold the key to niche and classic films not accessible on streaming platforms.

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The man’s arrest comes as authorities note a 653 per cent increase in detections of childlike sex dolls in the past two years.

Two fires north-east of Melbourne, that were allegedly deliberately lit, will be scrutinised at a hearing for two brothers accused of attempting a terror act, to determine whether they stand trial.

Health experts express concerns about NSW’s road map, Victoria’s Chief Health Officer is facing calls to hand down a reopening plan of his own and Brisbane is on alert after another truck driver was infectious in the community.

The Lodge was built in Canberra to prevent interstate rivalry. Sydneysider Scott Morrison has brought himself problems by choosing to live at Kirribilli House.

Police say some demonstrators arrive with only one plan: to try and fight cops. Why else would someone turn up at an anti-mask rally wearing a mask and goggles?

The death occurred in 2020, taking the industry’s yearly death toll to seven, but was not disclosed at the time.

“Sunday will be the last day we officially do a press conference in this way,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Sydney is set to enjoy a taste of summer over the weekend, but a cool change could put a dampener on “picnic day”.

Students, academics and the union are seeking better answers over the $40 million in job cuts and slashes to studies that will decimate world-class research and education outcomes.

Fed up with inquiries that are promptly ignored Tracy Westerman is aiming create an “army of Indigenous psychologists” to curb soaring rates of suicide in Aboriginal communities.

This West Australian state budget resembles the caricature of the state’s most famous stereotype: the cashed-up, FIFO bogan.

Politicians are just like us. Just ask Rob Stokes who’s sporting a new look this week.

A doctor is alleged to have said ‘I’m not into amputees’ to the family after they complained about the woman’s treatment.

The NSW Environment Minister has promised “zero extinctions”. He might need to recalculate.

Our governments are wielding extraordinary powers in an extraordinary time. But it is vital that these powers are not used for anything beyond the emergency itself.

“Freedom campaigners” are taking a novel approach in their defence of an ex-lawyer who lost her right to practise after pointed remarks about other lawyers, judges and the whole lockdown showdown.

COVID-19 may have cancelled the show but home cooks and craftspeople are overjoyed at the return of their beloved annual contest.

Gladys Berejiklian always seems to be obsessed by the necessity to reopen pubs at the earliest possible moment.

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

Women’s cricket condemned, big game lecture, and the full size Willys.