The organisers of the Diner en Blanc, or White Dinner, will pay Waverley Council $32,411 for the one-off event. The dinner was previously staged at Cockatoo Island, Centennial Park and outside the Sydney Opera House.

A nice pair of jeans or a fridge in good working order may find a new owner rather easily. But what about a lightly used 1000-bed quarantine facility in Melbourne’s outer suburbs?

A 19-year-old man has been charged with murder after a 34-year-old man died at a home in Cairns.

A 30-year-old man is tonight behind bars charged over a shooting at Oxley.

Police have discovered a hydroponic cannabis set-up after a shed fire in the Adelaide suburb of Hackham West.

“It’s like celebrancy is the new personal-training career choice,” says celebrant Anthony Cribbes. But is there any quality control?

A young man has opened up about his close encounter with a shark.

A woman has died after a car veered off the road and slammed into her western Sydney home in the early hours of this morning.

The federal opposition has vowed to fight any move by Labor to re-design tax cuts, tilted to those on high incomes.

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The favourite home delivery cuisines across Melbourne suburbs are not what you might expect.

Julian Assange’s father and brother have led a small but eclectic group of protesters that attempted to create a human chain around Flinders Street Station.

The SES has carried out six flood rescues and received more than 300 calls for help across NSW, with a low-pressure system expected to dump up to 100 millimetres of rain on a large swathe of the state in just a few hours.

It’s hard enough deciding to terminate a pregnancy for medical reasons, but for some people the pain does not end there.

Parts of NSW are experiencing major flooding on Saturday, and Sydney is bracing for up to 70 millimetres of rain in six hours. A number of severe weather warnings have been issued across the state.

More than 750 trees have been removed for a controversial upgrade of the Warringah Freeway on Sydney’s north shore.

Potholes are appearing everywhere as heavy rain leaves the roads in a particularly bad shape. And crews are unable to do major repair work until the weather clears.

At sunrise and sunset every day for the next year, visitors will experience a sonic ritual inspired by the sounds of the city.

The charge is the first laid since a man was allegedly shot at close range after intervening in a confrontation outside a Brisbane home on Tuesday.

A 62-year-old woman was killed in the early hours of Saturday when a woman allegedly drove into her home; the house’s three other occupants were uninjured.