The Melbourne Renegades have begun the new WBBL season in style with a - victory over the Hobart Hurricanes.

Steve Hansen let out a little cheer while watching The Everest on his phone nearly 8000km away in the departure’s lounge at Tokyo’s Narita Airport.

Halloween celebrations will proceed under loosened COVID-19 restrictions, providing a much-needed event for kids to focus on after weeks of lockdown.

Southern Tasmania and Hobart have entered a snap three-day lockdown, while Victoria and NSW have announced easing border restrictions for vaccinated citizens.

A senior Queensland firefighter who was initially denied a blue card allowing him to work with children will be able to apply after courts overturned the decision.

NSW’s move to effectively end quarantine for most travellers by opening up international borders to those who are vaccinated has raised questions over the future of the centre being built in Melbourne’s north.

Ozzie Kheir and Brae Sokolski woke to news their Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet had been euthanised that morning. Hours later Incentivise helped ease their pain.

“I’m bad at keeping up with trends, plus I like timeless things,” says the daughter of former Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld.

Incentivise made a mess of his rivals, saluting for owners Brae Sokolski and Ozzie Kheir on the same day their Cox Plate champion Sir Dragonet died at Moonee Valley.

High on the foothills of Helan Mountain two of Australia’s biggest winemakers went looking for a way around China’s blockade.

Researchers have discovered three key markers in the blood that are associated with migraines, with hopes they could lead to new treatments for the debilitating condition that costs the economy $35 billion a year.

Conservative Party MP Sir David Amess was stabbed multiple times at his constituency surgery in the English town of Leigh-on-Sea. The incident is being treated as terrorism.

Australia’s best jockey was fairly confident he had won the biggest race of his career – until a rival rider asked him who had won.

Everything you need to know to find a winner at Nowra.

This season Winona Costin has had 23 rides at Nowra for 11 winners, and 35 rides for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott for 13 winners.

Ten thousand punters and racing fans attended Royal Randwick on Saturday for the other race that stops a nation - or at least its biggest city - the TAB Everest.

Owner Neil Werrett started the day with news his Cox Plate had died, then finished it watching Masked Crusader lose The Everest by the smallest of margins.

Sydney burst to life and out of its pandemic-induced slumber at The Everest on Saturday, yet for winning owner Jack Van Duuren, 75, it was a battle just to be there.

The Everest - the race that stops the hibernation.

Jason Horne-Francis is the firm favourite to be the first player picked in the 2021 AFL national draft. He said he is coping with the attention and hype.

Wayne Bennett’s pending appointment for The Dolphins will add another chapter to one of the game’s great soap operas.

Whale Watchers Sydney have taken eager spotters out on the open water for the first time since lockdown began, with just a few weeks of the season left.

Police are searching for four-year-old Cleo Smith, last seen at a campsite 75km north of Carnarvon.

As Art Cadeau won the Kosciuszko, the roar around Randwick. In trainer Terry Robinson’s family video call, it stretched across the country.

NBA rookie Josh Giddey has ‘the stars aligning’ heading into the new NBA season while Brooklyn Nets will be grateful to have Patty Mills to steer them through a dramatic season start.

The sprinter is now eligible for a $1 million bonus in the Classique Legend Stakes after scoring in the Sydney Stakes.

In a display of sheer sustained speed, Nature Strip won The Everest at the third time of asking at Randwick on Saturday.

Residents will on Monday be granted greater freedoms – including more guests at weddings and funerals – after the vaccine milestone was reached.

Leading jockey Damian Lane has been suspended for eight meetings and fined $4500 for breaching the whip rules in his Tristarc Stakes win on Colette on Saturday.

Regional officers and police stations are well-represented among this year’s crop of nominees for the Nine News WA Police Excellence Awards.

Forget the tantalising clash with Eddie Jones’ England at Twickenham. Beat Scotland at Murrayfield, and the tour can be considered a success.

From humble beginnings, podcast Chat 10 Looks 3 featuring two of the ABC’s top journalists has 100,000-odd listeners - and now a book.

A net zero pledge from Scott Morrison is now all but certain as the political winds have shifted. But whether voters will reward the PM is an open question.

Electric transport devices such as e-scooters are cluttering Melbourne’s footpaths, creating obstacles for pedestrians - especially the vision impaired.

The nation’s biggest super fund wants to turn a golf course in Melbourne’s south-east into housing. Residents, the local MP and Kingston Council aren’t happy.

Not in Australia’s T20 picture at the start of 2020 after four years out of the team, Josh Hazlewood should now be front and centre in selectors’ World Cup plans.

The government must not sleepwalk into the future when it comes to meeting the challenges of an ageing and declining population.

Good Shepherd offers zero-interest loans as part of its services across Australia and New Zealand.

James Anderson has called for Australians to keep the Ashes phoney war “respectable” and says that the insults can be “dangerous” for mental health.

The Matildas will return home after an absence of nearly 600 days for a two-game series against Brazil played against the backdrop of explosive allegations of abuse.

Reigning Cox Plate champion Sir Dragonet has been euthanised after he broke down during trackwork at Moonee Valley on Saturday morning.

Australian boxer Brock Jarvis, with Jeff Fenech in his corner, is looking forward to fighting in front of American fans for the first time on Sunday.

Former Geelong captain Mel Hickey is a coach on the rise but admits there will need to be change in an AFLW competition that this season does not have one female senior coach.

Restrictions on non-US citizens were first imposed on air travellers from China in January 2020 without any clear metrics for how and when to lift them.

Queenslanders returning from southern Tasmania have hours to make it home before they will be forced into hotel quarantine.

Victoria has recorded 1993 new local cases of coronavirus and seven deaths as changes to border rules mean vaccinated NSW travellers will be able to visit Victoria without quarantining before Melburnians can escape the city.

Already battling Ebola, the Democratic Republic of Congo now confronts widespread vaccine hesitancy as its COVID toll mounts, sparking fears of new mutations.

It was the second such emergency on the station since July, when an unexpected firing of thrusters on a new Russian module briefly inverted the outpost.

The Australian F1 Grand Prix is listed as the third race on the 2022 calendar as authorities give the country more time to ease travel restrictions.

A man will face court for allegedly stabbing people outside a home in Ipswich.