Thousands of year 12 students across Queensland have had their final day of school.

A woman has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for killing her husband after years of violent abuse, but will be immediately eligible for parole.

Two men have been taken into custody after a 12-year-old boy was hit by a car in Macgregor on Thursday.

Weeks after flood waters invaded their homes, renters are still ricocheting between emergency accommodation and unable to find a new property in a nightmare rental market.

An Adelaide woman got the shock of her life when she opened her car to find a red-bellied black snake had taken up residence.

Cassius Turvey has been farewelled at a private funeral in Perth.

A man has been taken to hospital in South Australia after falling down a cliff.

A Dutch court has sentenced three men to life imprisonment for their role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, federal Emergency Management Minister Murray Watt says current planning laws are not up to scratch and evacuations and sandbagg...

Experts are predicting the days of cheap airfares are over, with flight prices to remain high well into 2024 due to the new concept of "travel revenge".

A north Queensland pilot has been found guilty on charges relating to illegally operating a charter service used by state and federal members of parliament.

Four homes, four car bays and forty trees, all on a traditional quarter-acre block. It’s suburbia – but a shady, new kind for our hot sprawling Perth.

North Korea's latest missile test has sparked a crisis meeting at the APEC summit in Thailand.

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

The NSW premier has offered free public transport to commuters next week in an effort to stop industrial action.

The Liberal Party has taken the extraordinary step of accusing the independent Victorian Electoral Commission of interfering in the election.

City Builders follows a branch of Pentecostal Christianity that is part of a global religious network that equates homosexuality with the work of the devil and abortion with murder.

Longtime customers have helped Creative Wigs founder Abe Lourie, 93, celebrate more than six decades in business.

Forensic officers confirmed the accused’s black paving mallet had traces of non-human blood on it.

The NSW government will stop future development in high-risk flood zones but Premier Dominic Perrottet says planning “sins of the past” cannot be changed.

Steve Johnson says his family are “more than ready” for what lies ahead, after the man who pleaded guilty to his brother’s murder had his conviction set aside.