A man’s late night phone call with his wife saved his life on Friday night after a black Suburu crashed into his Glenmore Park bedroom late on Friday.

With kids going back to school, parents and health authorities brace for increase case numbers but say they’re ready for children to return to the classroom.

The Pacific Dawn was meant to open Brisbane’s new cruise ship terminal, but instead set off on a wild journey that nearly ended in pieces.

Labor hasn’t held led Brisbane City Council since 2004. But Opposition Leader Jared Cassidy believes there is a mood for change.

Morrison government backbencher George Christensen rallied public health sceptics to bombard the Therapeutic Goods Administration with protest calls.

WA Health has urged anyone who attended the ‘Club Bootylicious’ event at the Library Nightclub to be tested immediately and isolate until they return a negative test.

Indika Gunathilaka, and his son Kohan, 6, and daughter Lily, 4, were discovered lifeless inside their home by another family member around 6.30pm.

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COVID-19 cases are falling but remain way higher than schools have ever dealt with. When classes go back, schools will be “living with COVID”. But how? 

There have been more deaths from COVID-19 in NSW aged care facilities in January than all of 2021.

Investigators confirmed a 40-year-old father murdered his four-year-old daughter and six-year-old son before taking his own life in a garage at a Perth family home.

For the past week or so Melbourne has gone troppo. So what’s causing the humid weather and can we expect more with climate change?

Ten per cent of the population is unvaccinated, but they comprised a third of the 12 deaths, said Cameron Dick, while CHO John Gerrard revealed masks would be compulsory for secondary students this term.

Health authorities fear infections among school students and staff could surge in coming weeks, as students return to the classrooms for face-to-face learning.

Of the new cases reported on Saturday, 5426 were self-reported from at-home tests and 7928 were from PCR testing.

Unscrupulous operators will always sniff out easy cash. A leading substance abuse body says Queensland’s residential rehabilitation system is one such place.

The bureau recorded more than one million lightning strikes across Australia’s south-east since Friday morning, mostly in Victoria.

One man is dead and another has been rescued after a six-hour search after a catamaran capsized in Jervis Bay on Friday night. 

A 50-year-old man fell 10 metres from a cliff at the Bondi Golf and Diggers Club around 10.30pm on Friday and died at the scene.

If you had suggested last year that Daniel Andrews and Dominic Perrottet would unite our pandemic response, you would have been checked for evidence of a COVID fever.

We are deep into the superstition phase of COVID-19 and heresy against its rites is punished by public opprobrium.

My Ukrainian father once said to me: “Ukrainians don’t know peace. There are only breaks between wars.” I had hoped he was wrong, but he may not have been.

Manly swimmer Brendan Maher spotted a turtle trapped in a shark net. So he swam ashore, got a knife, battled his way back out to sea and saved the turtle.

While well-intentioned, a trend to remove words including “women” and “mothers” from language used in maternity information risks dehumanising women, researchers say.

NSW is lagging other states and territories in vaccinating children against COVID-19: only 35 per cent of children aged five to 11 have had a first dose of the paediatric COVID-19 vaccine.

A creative approach to outdoor fun aims to stimulate imaginative and unstructured play and encourage children to connect with the natural world.

The best prescription for saving the Great Barrier Reef is for the government to stop spending millions in public funding on the coal and gas industry whose emissions have been killing it off for decades.

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Great disasters imperil the thin line between civil society and chaos. The author’s experience of floods, a cyclone and an earthquake finds that big hearts win.

The state issued an alert late on Friday with an urgent call for Library patrons to get tested as testing confirmed transmission at the Club Bootylicious event.

Three legal bodies have urged the government to extend its proposed shield laws to include the state’s corruption watchdog.

She leaves a shopping centre and stumbles across a shallow creek behind the complex. It’s the last time Monique is seen. Her distraught sister remembers the chilling phone call.

South-east Queensland voters were promised 13 “congestion busting” projects weeks out from the 2019 federal election. Eleven are yet to begin.

Demand at testing clinics has dropped dramatically and a Queensland disease expert asserts that they give better data.

Ventilation in classrooms is being checked but the back-to-school plan to manage COVID remains unclear before students return.

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The weather bureau said hailstones larger than 20¢ coins hit Melbourne’s inner east as the SES responded to about 1600 calls statewide.

The Prime Minister is in Cairns today to announce additional funding for the Great Barrier Reef, NSW is pressuring the Commonwealth for greater economic support and Ukraine’s top diplomat in Australia is confident armed conflict with Russia can be ...

Further details of how the school year will run in WA emerged on Tuesday and Friday this week with new close contacts rules the latest to be defined.

The COVID-19 death toll has climbed throughout January and was into the 90s on Friday.

A new study has shown for the first time that killer whales successfully hunted and killed blue whales on three separate occasions off the coast of Western Australia.

Health authorities expect the number of hospital patients with COVID-19 will drop significantly over the coming weeks, prompting discussions about elective surgery.

Public hearings for the commission are yet to commence after a year of COVID-related delays, raising questions about the leadership of the organisation.

A family and divorce lawyer fighting sexual harassment allegations says he posted the female solicitor’s number online accidentally during a drug and alcohol-fuelled spree, VCAT has heard.

Tim Farriss has been ordered to pay costs after unsuccessfully suing a boating operator over an accident that severed a finger on his chord-playing hand.

Police have said the deaths of a married couple in Brisbane’s south-west had evidence of violence, after initially suspecting they perished in a house fire.

Disgraced former television presenter Andrew O’Keefe has lashed out at journalists after he was charged over allegations he attacked a woman.

Depending on where you live in Greater Sydney, you could be paying up to 191.1¢ a litre to fill up the tank. See how the price has changed over 12 months, and where you can get the best deal near you.

The former television presenter has been refused bail in a Sydney court after he allegedly punched, kicked and choked the woman at an apartment this week.

After weeks of reports on the state government’s secrecy around its Omicron modelling, a University of WA pandemics and vaccination expert has provided his own.