The Queen’s body has left Buckingham Palace for the final time, surging US inflation has sparked fears of a global recession and people’s love for utes and SUVs is all but wiping out the benefits of electric vehicle sales.

A woman has been found after four nights lost in a far north Queensland rainforest.

A Victorian teenager is in the history books after catching a record-breaking fish on the Mornington Peninsula last week.

Two men have been charged with murder following a fatal stabbing in Brisbane.

A teenager who died in a crash at Buxton in Sydney's south-west has been farewelled.

A boy has died after being struck by a car in the driveway of a Melbourne home.

Daniel Andrews has personally apologised after one of his senior ministers suggested a cancer patient who had to travel interstate for a scan should “roll with the punches”.

A council in Melbourne is about to be formally renamed to end its association with a Jamaican sugar plantation.

The Reserve Bank is expected to keep aggressively pushing up interest rates, as the unemployment rate hovers at historically low levels.

Terrifying security vision has emerged of two Collingwood shop owners fighting off a thief armed with a knife.

Recommendations from an independent panel included purchase limits of one or two packs per person and restricting sales without a prescription to over 18s.

The Independent Education Union has called on Victorian Catholic educators to refuse to perform any work outside of their legal requirements from the beginning of term four as negotiations over a new workplace deal stall.

A Melbourne teenager has broken a national record after battling for four hours off Victoria’s coast to reel in a decades-old southern bluefin tuna that weighed as much as a refrigerator.

A pregnant woman has been taken to hospital after a brawl on a street in Punchbowl in Sydney.

The funeral for one of five teenagers killed in a crash in Buxton has been held for Tyrese Bechard.

The first cruise ship has docked in Melbourne in more than two and a half years.

More than 25 paramedic practitioner positions will be created if the Andrews government is re-elected in November's Victorian state election.

Queensland’s unemployment rate has dipped to its lowest percentage since records began in 1978, Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows.

There have been jubilant scenes at Station Pier after the return of the first passenger cruise ship to Melbourne in three years.

Historian Joanna Bourke feels obliged to clarify her views on bestiality after the NSW arts minister tried to have her session cancelled.