Rescue authorities are currently working on a plan to retrieve a family from Perth who are trapped in outback South Australia because of torrential downpours.

Of the 1.4 million adults sexually abused as children, only a fraction were first abused by a stranger. 

Two men escape serious injury after a light plane crashes into the ocean off a popular Perth beach.

Protests continue against the new laws set to replace the state of emergency powers at the end of the year as Victoria records 16,671 active cases of the virus, and 407 deaths during the current Delta outbreak.

Many Australians are rightly looking forward to a carefree summer. However, experts warn Singapore's current COVID-19 surge may be a prime example of how Australia could struggle to remain virus-free for very long.

The Australian property market has for many years defied the laws of gravity. But analysts are warning a huge surge in US inflation has the potential to derail the Australian property market, writes David Taylor.

Glen de Vries, a tech company founder who travelled to space with TV star William Shatner on a rocket owned by Jeff Bezos's company last month, is among two people killed in a small plane crash in New Jersey.

Both soldiers were stationed at the Elysee Palace, where French President Emmanuel Macron resides, but the accused man has since been moved away from his post.

The cost of accommodation along parts of the New South Wales South Coast reach dizzying heights, with property owners taking advantage of Sydney's exodus after the lifting of COVID travel restrictions.

A new $33 million long-distance walk opens in Victoria's west, but some hikers say, at almost $50 a night to camp there, the 13-day hike will be too expensive.

SES crews are sandbagging in Forbes and a rescue chopper is on standby as a seething overflow from Wyngala Dam sends a surge toward Lachlan River towns.

Australia knows the challenge they will face from New Zealand in the men's T20 World Cup final, especially after the Black Caps knocked England out of the tournament in the semis.

All Too Well was never released as a single, but it quickly became a fan favourite. Now it's 10 minutes long and has its own short film. 

A leading epidemiologist says Australians will need a third and even a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine as the country enters the next phase of the pandemic.

This is the strange story of how a small, unassuming country town and a native plant became the epicentre for a major pharmaceutical drug industry and an alleged criminal cartel.

A US judge ends the conservatorship that has controlled pop star Britney Spears's life and money since 2008.

Lawyers representing more than 200 people claiming they were injured in last week's Astroworld Festival stampede are filing another 90 lawsuits against the promoters of the event in which at least nine people died.

The lockdown is the first to start in western Europe since a new wave of infections began surging across parts of the continent.

Whether you take a benign view of China's intentions, or an alarmed one, Taiwan and China are now becoming a very, very complex problem for everyone — including Australia, writes Laura Tingle. 

Jhye Richardson may be the next in line if one of Australia's fast bowlers falters in the men's Ashes, after his eight-wicket haul helps propel Western Australia to a comfortable win over Queensland.

An Adélie penguin swims to the shores of New Zealand, at least 3,000 kilometres from its natural habitat of Antarctica.

Global climate talks have run into overtime, with negotiators scrambling to reach a final agreement and China calling for countries to "decide on their own timetable" for reducing emissions.

The consumer watchdog is investigating whether large flower delivery companies are misleading people using tactics online to make their services appear local.

Jeongyeong's first child, a baby girl, was born in August last year. But he's never been able to hold her, and temporary residents like his wife are left in limbo as Australia's borders reopen. 

It seemed the public discussion following a fatal shark attack at a Perth beach would head down the well-trodden path of culls and drum lines — but this time the debate heads in a different direction.