A Tamil family will remain in legal limbo on Christmas Island for the foreseeable future, with their deportation case now hinging on an upcoming court...

Nancy Beaumont, the mother of the three missing Beaumont children, has died in Adelaide aged 92.

A suspected arsonist who police say rammed a patrol car, forcing officers to open fire on him in Queensland's north, is now helping with their...

Protesters who use devices known as the "Sleeping Dragon" or the "Dragon's Den" to attach themselves to Queensland roads and train tracks could soon be...

Canterbury will have at least one dummy-half on their books for the next two years after re-signing Jeremy Marshall-King until the end of the 2021...

A bill to clean up the Great Barrier Reef by cutting down on fertiliser and sediment has passed in Queensland parliament.

Teachers must be given more support to better understand mental health issues among their students, former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard says.

A powerful suicide truck bombing outside a hospital in the capital of southern Zabul province has killed at least 20 and injured as many as...

Australia has enjoyed 28 years of continuous economic expansion, but it is often said the country needs the wake-up call of a recession to get...

With 49 people killed last year after being shocked by Tasers, police departments across the United States are trying out a "Spider-Man"-like device that fires...