With the Omicron variant spreading fast around the world and set to become the dominant COVID-19 strain in the UK, there is one question everyone wants to know.

Security professionals say it is one of the worst computer vulnerabilities they have ever seen as agencies in the United States and Australia sound the alarm on Log4j software.

Publicly, it's been a united front for almost two years: NSW's top medico Kerry Chant standing beside a premier, who has proclaimed whatever COVID-19 decision they were making was "based on the health advice". Now, there's been a departure f...

Five people, mostly in their twenties, are part of the "same political movement" and hope to run in the 2022 federal election under the banner of a new political party. 

A United States judge says former president Donald Trump was "wrong on the law" in seeking to block the House Ways and Means Committee from obtaining his tax returns.

The jury has retired to consider its verdict after hearing weeks of testimony in the trial of Linda Britton, who allegedly drove her car into the two women during a brawl at Nambucca Heads in 2019.

An inquest into the disappearance of Darlene Geertsema more than 40 years ago is told harrowing allegations about her then-boyfriend's behaviour — which included claims he threw a basket, with a baby in it, out a door.

Scientists are now able to confirm that in April, the probe dipped below outgoing solar wind into the uneven boundary with the Sun's solar atmosphere known as the corona.

Managers of St Basil's aged care home at the centre of Australia's deadliest COVID-19 outbreak refuse to give evidence during an inquest into the tragedy. 

Police had spent the last four weeks scouring areas near Kendall on the NSW Mid North Coast as they search for clues into the missing toddler.

The World Health Organization says vaccines alone "will not get any country out of this crisis" as Omicron spreads at an unprecedented rate. So what do they recommend will help? And what are the rules in your state?

The inquest into the death of the Broken Hill teenager, who was turned away from hospital three times, hears he was speaking to staff and "compensating for the sepsis until he couldn't".

Omicron is looming, but some rules about mask-wearing and showing your vaccination status will be relaxed at 11:59pm tonight. In the meantime, authorities say, they are carefully monitoring the new variant.

A raft of COVID-19 restrictions are being eased in NSW today, and, for the first time since June, unvaccinated people are being given significant freedoms too.

WorkSafe has charged Energy Australia with three breaches of the Occupational Health and Safety Act over the 2018 death of Graeme Edwards, who was fatally burnt while working at Yallourn Power Station.

On Saturday, Western Australia will reclassify NSW as an "extreme risk" state, where 25,000 cases of COVID-19 a day are expected by the end of January. 

An emotional deputy State Coroner criticises the young detainee's guards, apologises to his parents and delivers recommendations she says she has no confidence will make any difference.

Controversial Sydney gambler and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson is embroiled in the cocaine trafficking case of high-profile racehorse owner Damion Flower, the ABC can reveal.

A controversial heritage law aimed at preventing another Juukan Gorge disaster passes WA Parliament.

Australia's medicines regulator rejects call to legalise psychedelic drugs for use in mental health settings, saying changing the rules could lead to the drugs being misused.

Analysis of public data by ABC News shows how Australia is faring in the fight to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The tech industry is behind many of Australia's newest millionaires and fastest growing c ompanies. Here's how three Australian entrepreneurs made it. 

Sanitary products would be accessible across the ACT to anyone who needs them under a new proposal to end period poverty in the territory.

A mass walk-out of prison guards over food, pay and conditions leaves a skeleton crew at one of South Australia’s largest prisons.

ABC News Breakfast reporter Charles Brice tested positive to COVID-19 and spent two weeks in hospital recovering. Here's what he discovered along the way.