Sussex Inlet has been told to evacuate now as a woman’s body was found by police in a stormwater canal in Sydney’s west.

The man, who was seen acting suspiciously just before 4am on Tuesday, is still missing after fleeing police.

Hardware hounds fetch the 4 by 2.

Residents of towns on the NSW North Coast devastated by record floods over the last week begin the mammoth task of cleaning up the mess left behind.

NSW authorities have warned communities at risk of major flooding in the Sydney region to evacuate or prepare to evacuate as the Hawkesbury, Nepean and Georges rivers rise. Floods and heavy rains have forced school closures and over 3000 calls for he...

Moscow has offered Ukrainians escape routes to Russia and its ally Belarus, former NSW minister Andrew Constance says his state’s disaster response has not improved since the Black Summer bushfires and Shane Warne’s body will be flown home today.

Army boots have finally hit the ground. But it’s still mainly residents and volunteers cleaning up in Woodburn.

Independent candidate Zoe Daniel’s campaign manager will challenge Bayside City Council’s ban on election signage in the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

At least two people have died, thousands are homeless and wild winds are set to create more havoc as Sydney is hit by record rains.

The man encountered police in St Lucia at 3.45am on Tuesday and ran towards the still-hazardous river.

The man died on February 28 this year, with an autopsy revealing he died from the virus and investigations underway into how he contracted it.

Former television presenter Andrew O’Keefe has been refused bail in the NSW Supreme Court on charges including choking a woman in his Sydney apartment.

Stojadin Krstic allegedly sexually assaulted two females aged 17 and 19 at a unit at the Ship and Dock Inn in Henderson in the early hours of Monday morning.

Mosquitoes are spreading a rare tropical disease further south than ever before. What are the signs of Japanese encephalitis and why is it here?

It is already Sydney’s wettest start to the year on record, but some sunshine is forecast for Thursday.

Commissioner Katarina Carroll has been charged with failing to comply with her health and safety duties during a 7½-year period in which 26 officers were injured.

Diseases caused by mosquito bites, fungal infections and human waste in water are all likely to afflict flood-hit communities in NSW.

A former elite soldier gave evidence in the Federal Court that he told Ben Roberts-Smith that the award “made me extremely uncomfortable”.

Sailor, who formerly played for St George Illawarra in the NRL, has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman at her apartment in 2020.

Investigators have been unable to identify the man, who remains in a serious condition in hospital, so have released a photo of his distinctive tattoo.

The prospect of a navy facility in the Illawarra is exciting.

Helicopter vision showed emergency crews boarding a nearby empty boat looking for clues as to what went wrong.  

Days after insurer Suncorp accused governments of dragging their feet on flood protection, leaving cities exposed to risk, Queensland’s Deputy Premier says the state will consider alternative plans for future disasters.

The devastating problem of lengthy ambulance wait times is a preventable crisis that didn’t need to happen.

A man accused of murdering police officers Gary Silk and Rodney Miller more than 23 years ago is expected to argue he wasn’t at the scene of the shootings, a Supreme Court trial has heard.

The bodies have yet to be formally identified but police believe them to be the missing pair, whose car was found in the same canal on Monday.

In February Perth was the only city across Australia that experienced a decline in occupancy levels. And it’s not a fear of catching COVID that is keeping workers away from city offices, but something else altogether.

The state now has 14,458 active cases, however only 48 people are in hospital with the virus, and no one is in intensive care.

After accusing Brisbane City Council of not fixing infrastructure damaged in the flood, the Transport Minister will meet with the lord mayor on Wednesday.

Residents in multiple south-west Sydney suburbs have been forced to evacuate their homes as the city prepares for another day of “intense” rainfall and commuters are warned to avoid the public transport network.

Gonorrhoea infections are surging in Melbourne’s outer suburbs with Melton and Casey experiencing the sharpest increase in cases.

The magistrate dismissed the charges against the officer who shared the photos of Ms Laidley with colleagues, finding the prosecution failed to establish he had a duty to not disclose the information.

Lifeguards patrolled Maroubra Beach and confirmed the sighting of the shark around 7.50am.

The female victims, aged 17 and 19, were rescued by police after witnesses said they were found hysterical and partly clothed outside the Ship and Dock Inn in Henderson.

Opponents of the project have labelled its approval an environmental and cultural failure, and compared the situation to Rio Tinto’s Juukan Gorge destruction.

The PM double act – an “unlikely duo”, according to festival organisers – took to the stage for a discussion titled “How Fast Things Fall”

NSW State Emergency Service Commissioner Carlene York said NSW was facing a “very serious” situation on Tuesday.

As the floods’ impact is compared with Cyclone Tracy, leaders warn old ways of dealing with disasters no longer work.

International Women’s Day will only be fully inclusive when we recognise that we are all looking through different glass ceilings.

The Russian leader’s stated aim in invading Ukraine was to prevent the expansion of NATO. It has had the opposite effect.

In Canterbury-Bankstown, only one-third of children aged five to 11 had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at the start of this month.

Research has found the noisiest spots in Sydney were along the Western Distributor and Cahill Expressway. The city entrance to the Harbour Bridge was the worst.

A flu vaccine developed by pharmaceutical company Seqirus using a different method than most common flu shots has now been approved in Australia for use on children aged 2 and older.

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

The awarding of a state funeral for Shane Warne has provoked varying reactions with readers.

When is this government going to learn that you don’t put defence facilities in major populations areas? This government is playing election politics again.

When a school principal announced that he would not advise even his “worst enemy” to become a teacher, he found himself confronted by angry students.

Two out of three flood-affected homes in Lismore will need to be demolished or rebuilt, thousands of anti-war protesters have been detained in Russia and the Morrison government hopes to build a new submarine base along Australia’s east coast.

A woman remains in a Brisbane hospital in a critical condition with Japanese Encephalitis as local councils step up efforts to control mosquitos in the aftermath of widespread flooding.

Bystanders came to the victim’s rescue and performed a citizen’s arrest until police arrived.