A teenage boy has been killed and two others are fighting for life after an allegedly stolen ute slammed into a tree in regional Victoria.

Two teenage girls have been charged after allegedly sending a Brisbane Woolworths store into lockdown.

A survivor of a bus crash has spoken of their terror after a tourist was killed.

Police said the man’s friends watched on in horror as he was attacked by a shark at Horseshoe Reef on Saturday morning.

Homicide detectives are investigating the mystery deaths of a young couple whose bodies were found in a Werribee home.

A neo-Nazi group banned by the federal government will fight in the High Court for its right to exist, testing new anti-hate laws.

A man has died after he was mauled by a shark off Rottnest Island in Western Australia.

Auctions across the country mark the first test of the government's negative gearing overhaul.

Police say the car was stolen from a Mildura home overnight before the crash on Saturday morning. 

Andrew Swift has recalled the frantic moments before and after his tenant killed two police officers at his Porepunkah property.

The charter pilots escorted the passengers from their virus-infected cruise ship to Australia and voluntarily quarantined with them on Friday night.

Days after charges against the 19-year-old’s alleged killer were dropped, her mother spoke to a sea of orange – the golden-orange of Isla’s hair – in the CBD.

The activist-turned-independent candidate confronted Queensland’s premier at a Chermside polling booth, where he was handing out flyers on Saturday.

Four of the state’s top legal minds have signed a public notice stating that a number of remote and regional courthouses would be temporarily closed for a three-month period as security for the buildings cannot be provided.

Since 2000, 22 people have been killed in shark attacks off the WA coast.

Opponents say a council survey, aimed at gauging support for installing meters at seven popular eastern suburbs beaches, was flawed.

As November's state election draws closer, Jess Wilson is trying turn around years of Labor dominance online.

The week in photos from our award-winning staff photographers and regular contributors at The Age.

Police were called to reports of a disturbance between two girls at a Woolworths on Brisbane’s northside.

Police say they will have to wait for a post-mortem to work out what happened to a man and a woman found dead on Friday.