Sharpen your pencils for those character sketches.

Police have used DNA technology to achieve an astonishing breakthrough in the hunt for one of Sydney’s most prolific sex offenders.

There are easy laughs and poignant moments but the first episode of the two-parter is unexpectedly flat, delivering what amounts to a clip show.

Parents want the headmaster to be kept on to see through the transition to co-education.

A man clinging to the side of a burning Melbourne apartment has neighbours to thank for using a mattress to save his life.

Detectives are investigating after a father was dropped off at a Sydney Hospital with a deadly stab wound.

More than 4000 South Australian homes and businesses remain without power after another storm swept the state.

Is new St Kilda coach Ross Lyon set to make wholesale list changes at the Saints to trigger the success that has largely eluded them?

French superstar Karim Benzema, one of the world’s best players, joins a long list who will miss the match against Australia because of injury - but the Socceroos are not deluding themselves.

The presenter, who had sat on The Project desk for five years, will remain with Network 10.

Some music fans were forced to sleep in their cars after rain hit a festival at Mt Duneed in Victoria.

Friends insist passion is driving his quest for a third term. Others say he doesn’t want to be defined as the “lockdown premier”. All agree, though, the pandemic has changed him.

It was mined in South Africa in 1905 and presented to King Edward VII as a gesture of friendship and loyalty, but calls are growing for the diamond to be returned to South Africa and put on display in a museum.

Liberal candidate Renee Heath has said she does not support gay conversion therapy and has asked her lawyers to determine if she has grounds for a human rights complaint, after the Liberal Party said she would not sit in the party room if elected.

The Surfers Paradise coastline was packed with school leavers for the first official night of Schoolies week.

Max Verstappen steadfastly refused to help Sergio Perez on the final lap of the Brazilian Grand Prix, when Red Bull asked the reigning world champion to pull over and give Perez sixth place.

While Daniel Andrews was spruiking Labor’s free kinder policy, Matthew Guy’s announcement to digitise government services was overshadowed by questions about his controversial candidates.

A woman has been arrested after a 61-year-old man was allegedly stabbed in Melbourne.

Victoria's election candidates are ramping up their campaigns as the election nears.

The editor-in-chief of News Corp’s national masthead The Australian left his position at the company after an incident at a conference in California last month.