As the virus hits the road.

Australian scientists have begun rolling out a commercial solution to a major source of greenhouse gases with a seaweed feed to block livestock burps.

Melbourne's local football community is mourning the death of 21-year-old Mitchell Celetano, whose body was found in a Gold Coast canal on Tuesday in Queensland.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called a special cabinet meeting to discuss the mutant coronavirus strain from the United Kingdom, while the MCG in Victoria became an outbreak site after a positive case attended the Melbourne Test.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young has signed off on Cricket Australia's proposals for strict quarantine rules for players.

A 25-year-old man was charged on Wednesday after allegedly fleeing the scene of the accident in the town of Wellington.

Izaia Perese will make his return to Australian rugby for the Waratahs in 2021 after losing his NRL contract last year for a drug-related offence.

The sentences are the latest crackdown on independent thought in a country where authorities are busy stamping out dissent ahead of an important meeting by the ruling Communist Party later this month.

Three West Australians who came into contact with a recently returned UK traveller with COVID-19 have gone into mandatory quarantine after a health protocol failure.

GPs will be at the forefront of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout as the federal government briefs states on their plans.

The thunderstorms were predicted to also cause potential life-threatening flash-flooding.

A man in his 30s who attended sales at Chadstone on December 26 and the MCG Boxing Day Test match on December 27 later tested positive to COVID-19.

The decision by Victoria and Western Australia to shut out their own residents has stranded thousands in internal exile with no end date in sight.

The son of a Serbian immigrant, Will Pucovski may not seem to have a rich cricket pedigree but he had a bat in his hand long before he started school.

The introduction of a banned drinkers register in the Kimberley will bring the region in line with the Pilbara and Northern Territory.

Two Democratic victories will spark blood-letting among Republicans over whether Donald Trump's claims of election fraud cost them their Senate majority.

Venues across the northern beaches look set to enjoy the fruits of the state government's hallmark $500 million restaurant voucher program to stimulate the pandemic-ravaged economy.

Hundreds of thousands face another week - at least - of working from home as the Black Rock outbreak and MCG scare delays the state's plan to get workers back to the CBD.

Health experts have warned that the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines won't be enough to allow Australians to fly overseas by July.

“We have not seen these challenging conditions for two to three years,” says fire chief Darren Klemm, who warns the next three days will be especially tough for crews.

McDonald Jones Stadium says patrons from identified hotspots and "selected postcodes in Western Sydney" would be barred from attending Friday night's match between the Jets and Wanderers.

The overriding take on their relationship has been negative - but there were moments of tenderness that punctuated the supposed artificiality.

Australian Orthodox communities are celebrating the birth of Christ on January 6 and 7.

The Summer Sprint could provide a pointer to the upcoming Moruya Cup.

Everything you need to know to pick a winner on an eight-race card.

National cabinet will meet on Friday to consider tighter precautions on international arrivals over fears a new mutant coronavirus strain will spread from the UK.

Those arrested included former politicians and pro-democracy activists, arrested on suspicion of subversion under the city’s national security law.

Richmond Tiger Sydney Stack was arrested in Perth on December 19 for allegedly breaching Western Australia's coronavirus quarantine laws.

While the Service NSW QR code has been compulsory in the state's businesses since January 1, there are places where codes may be missing or missed.

There is little pattern to why some of Warner’s opening partnerships have fared better than others.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made a frank admission that his country's economy had "immensely underachieved" in the past five years.

Former Stoke City and Middlesbrough defender Ryan Shotton is out of quarantine and into training with new club Melbourne Victory.

China sent one official back home and the other is staying in a third country until they are granted entry.

Queensland police are investigating the suspected homicide after being called to an address on Wednesday afternoon.

After no shortage of dead rubbers, the reordering of the schedule has helped bring about a rare event: a Sydney Test in which the trophy is still up for grabs.

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Newcastle's star playmaker has fallen on his sword after a turbulent fortnight.

Roads and train services across the region have been cut by floodwater, with hundreds of millimetres of rain — much falling in the space of hours — leading to major flooding south of Cairns.

Authorities have started releasing water from Sydney's largest dam after steady recent rains pushed the levels to almost full capacity with more showery days to come.

Set in mid-war Britain the film introduces us to grumpy writer, Alice, working away in an artfully shambolic house on the edge of the white cliffs in Kent.

Kaley Cuoco and Bryan Cranston have returned to the small screen, but can they escape their past successes?

One of the head writers of Killing Eve sees Carey Mulligan on a crusade to humiliate men who try to take advantage of women.

Teresa Palmer thought acting would be a sideline to another career, which explains why she's filming a show about witches while writing a book on childbirth.

Suddenly I’m hearing this new descriptor – ‘‘bogan’’. Suddenly I’m worrying that I am one. I change my socks from anklets to knee-highs. There is nothing I can do about my hair.

New Zealand's rout of Pakistan on Wednesday — sealing their eighth straight home series win — has propelled them past Australia to become the No.1 Test nation.

Rising inequality and increasing debt could combine to present problems for the global economy once the pandemic is brought to heel.

Plans to demolish a St Vincent's Hospital building next to Carlton Gardens and replace it with a 11-storey glass tower face opposition over fears it would impact the World Heritage status of the nearby Royal Exhibition Building.

A drink-driver was warned by a friend he shouldn't be behind the wheel of his car just minutes before he hit and killed a pedestrian, court documents reveal.

The former captain is not in a form slump. The opposition's plans have worked for the first time in several years. There's not much more to it than that.

The lawyer for accused quarantine hotel escapee Jenny D’Ubios is appalled that her client is being held in a maximum security prison after attempts to secure her bail conditions were allegedly undone by police and media.