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Experts are divided over the need for tighter restrictions to prevent dog attacks after the death of a toddler in the NSW Central West on Tuesday.

A police operation has been launched to urgently check on the welfare of 500 high-risk South Australian children.

Police are investigating several new leads in the hunt for the killer of 24-year old Toyah Cordingley.

The collapse of the popular nationwide plastic bag recycling program was set in train nearly five months ago when a suburban Melbourne factory caught fire.

The university has withdrawn a take-home assignment in which a character kills a left-wing victim, has unprotected sex despite being HIV-positive and is thrown out of a window to her death.

A cold case from four decades ago is being reopened by Queensland Police after new DNA technology helped to identify a possible killer.

A freak farming accident has left a Queensland man trapped for more than an hour when part of his tractor collapsed on him.

A South Australian dog owner has been reunited with their pet after two years.

Two people have died in a crash between two light aircraft in Queensland.

Case numbers of a flesh-eating ulcer affecting parts of coastal Victoria and spreading inland in Melbourne are projected to soar as the weather warms up.

A motel worker, police and medical staff made a "super-human effort" to save the life of a toddler who was mauled to death by two dogs, NSW Police say.

Hackers behind the Medibank data breach release the personal information of customers.

Fresh Christmas trees in New South Wales will be more expensive and harder to find due to this year's increased rain.

The average price of unleaded petrol has soared above $2 in Sydney and much of NSW.

The Defence Force is investigating whether retired Australian military personnel have been approached to provide training to China.

A Melbourne woman charged over the alleged hit and run of her older sister has been granted bail.

Six years after 20-year-old Melbourne woman, Elly Warren died in Mozambique, her family continues its search for answers.

Police said witnesses were confronted with a “graphic scene” after the crash, and were investigating whether the aircraft had taken off from the same place.

Two children have been seriously injured after they were hit by a car near Yarrawonga on the NSW-Victoria border.