The jail time for the drunk driver who killed four children in Oatlands has been reduced.

Three teenagers who pulled a five-year-old boy from a pool at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre have been labelled heroes.

NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has made good on his promise to light the Sydney landmark maroon if Queensland won the State of Origin.

Housing ministers to meet to tackle affordability and homelessness as Sri Lankan president quits after touching down in Singapore.

Documents filed in August last year and publicly released on Friday also allege that Pell was “prepared to use opportunities afforded to him to act upon his sexual proclivities towards boys under 16 years of age” and that they would introduce evi...

A 25-year-old Queensland woman has been sentenced to jail after slashing a man in the neck with a broken bottle.

A delicate operation is underway on a major Melbourne road after a truck carrying hazardous chemicals crashed over an embankment.

A new sports precinct will be built in Albion, Brisbane ahead of the 2032 Olympic games.

A teenager has been jailed following a carjacking incident, which saw a woman dragged hundreds of metres through a Queensland street.

Eight people have appeared in Brisbane Magistrate's Court over an alleged plot involving airport freight employees, suspected of stealing electronics from freight packages over nine months.

People in several suburbs in Melbourne’s north had earlier been told to stay indoors after a truck carrying pesticide crashed on the Western Ring Road.

A Sydney man has been jailed beating and stabbing his on and off girlfriend to death.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has called an emergency meeting of National Cabinet as calls to reinstate the pandemic leave payment grow.

The week in photos from the award-winning SMH and AFR photographers.

Would you still covet a diamond if it had been grown in a lab? Welcome to the debate dividing the jewellery world and brides alike.

The champion cyclist talks about her need to always win, navigating tricky conversations about sex, and why a manicure is a pre-competition must.

NASA’s James Webb telescope peers towards the beginning of time. But confused and jaded in the post-truth period, can we hold a feeling of awe any more?

Lynda Greenwood had bright pink house keys so she could find them quickly to get inside in case Jason Lloyd was waiting to ambush her, but they were of no help.

New Englanders may have a “sceptical view of pleasure” but those they allow themselves – such as their famous lobster rolls – are hard to argue with.

A 21-year-old woman who is one of two people charged over the shooting death of a man in Fitzroy is withdrawing from drugs and her mental state is rapidly declining, a court has heard.