Police said they found human remains 100 metres from a vehicle near Yarck in central Victoria on Sunday afternoon.

When the Longwood fires crept up over the rolling hills and threatened to reduce Yarck to cinders last week, Robbie Cumming’s parents decided to stay back and fight.

Eating reindeer, visiting Santa’s home in the Arctic Circle and speaking Finnish at school were all novel experiences for Marley Hines.

Higher education regulators have sounded the alarm on early childhood education students, warning some are “not genuine”.

Parts of North Queensland have copped the brunt of ex-cyclone Koji.

A couple driving to the airport has had an unusual mishap after getting their hire car stuck in a sinkhole.

Pressure to reinstate Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to the line-up of one of the country’s best-loved writers’ festivals is mounting.

A family has been airlifted to safety with their cat after sheltering in a shipping container amid Victoria’s bushfires.

Up to a dozen major bushfires were burning across Victoria after new blazes broke out despite milder conditions.

A Sydney childcare centre is the first to be shut down under a tough new crackdown after failing to meet national standards for more than a decade.

Mass demonstrations in Iran are escalating as millions of people unite to try and topple the country's regime.

What were once rare disasters are becoming more common with extreme weather events striking multiple times a year and leaders fighting to fund recovery.

Australia has significant deposits of rare earth reserves, but being a useful ally is apparently irrelevant to being annexed by the United States.

While the system has been downgraded, damaging winds and heavy rain are expected to continue for the next few days.

Dozens of West Australian emergency services specialists are flying to Victoria as devastating bushfires ravage communities across the state.

While downgraded, ex-tropical cyclone Koji is bringing heavy rain and winds with flood warnings.

Steve Smith smashes a six on his second ball back with the Sydney Sixers.

With only four sessions permitted each season – each limited to just one hour between 7am and 8am – abalone fishers have limited time to catch their quota.

Wycheproof Fire Brigade shared a video showing one of the fires burning in Victoria overnight.

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