Australia

Alcoa has agreed to pay $55 million to restore a forest habitat that's home to protected species after clearing it for bauxite mining without approvals.

Two schools were placed into lockdown after a man with a backpack allegedly sparked a bomb scare in a Melbourne suburb.

AARON PATRICK: The academic’s invitation to the Sydney Writers’ Festival demonstrates how arts festivals have been ideologically captured, Jewish leaders say.

The man was ‘kicked out’ of his exit row seat on a Jetstar flight.

TOM RICHARDSON: Bank shares have surged in February as they impress investors with cost control and benefit from the flow through of three interest rate cuts in 2025.

A neo-Nazi supporter who railed against Jews in a hate-filled Australia Day rally speech has been jailed for his offensive and abhorrent crime.

Bizarre CCTV footage shows the moment an alleged thief flees a crime scene after accidentally setting himself on fire.

Netflix star Matt Wright has been transferred into Darwin jail’s Complex Behavioural Unit, designed for inmates with significant mental health and disability needs, sparking questions over who signed off on it.

Authorities are searching for a second man nearly four decades after the kidnapping and aggravated rape of a 19-year-old woman.

A man has been committed to stand trial over a 1983 rape of a grandmother, but has been cleared of her 1981 sexual assault.

In a bombshell update, South Australian’s police commissioner has announced two family members have now withdrawn their cooperation as investigators search for missing four-year-old Gus Lamont.

Conservatorium High School says it did not remove Grace Tame from its consent education program, despite media reports claiming she was axed after leading a controversial chant at a pro-Palestine rally.

Drivers on a major highway in Queensland were forced to try and take evasive action after a horror scenario unfolded, leaving one person dead and another fighting for life.

A 25-year-old man who allegedly went on a stabbing spree after escaping from a mental health care facility and evading police for 10 days, has been charged with murder.

December wage data is set to remain stable, even though large sections of the workforce pocketed a rise in their weekly pay.