• 2 mins ago

ACT police have referred the Brumbies to corporate regulator ASIC over unidentified potential breaches.

• COMMENT
• 2 mins ago

President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.

• ANALYSIS
• 4 mins ago

Hillary Clinton's long, long political march was paved with extraordinary accomplishment; signposted by humiliation and staggering resilience. It ended in heartbreak and horror.

• 5 mins ago

A young man with suspected links to the Apex gang and accused of organising criminal activity has again been denied bail despite a magistrate's concerns the teen could become an "acculturated criminal" if kept in custody.

• 6 mins ago

While he's been busily bolstering his forward pack, Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart says he doesn't need to do similar with his backs.

• 6 mins ago

"You're going to lose," a man shouted in Donald Trump's face on Tuesday morning as he made his way through the Manhattan polling place to cast his vote.

• 8 mins ago

Millions of white Americans who stayed silent for months have stepped into a voting booth on Tuesday and raised their voices for Donald Trump.

• 8 mins ago

Traditional supermarkets like Coles, Woolworths and IGA could cease to exist in 10 years time, and "we, the public are to blame", says Dick Smith.

• 10 mins ago

The US election has revealed a shocking level of anger and resentment festering in sections of the US, and the result leaves the country poisonously divided.

• COMMENT
• 12 mins ago

The GFC was quite scary at times. President Trump worries me much more.

• 21 mins ago

The Australian sharemarket lost more than $30 billion in value as Donald Trump looked increasingly likely to be the next US president, which in the immediate term spells greater economic uncertainty as the world ventures into the unknown, experts say.

• 25 mins ago

A Victoria Park man has been robbed after attempting to sell his phone on an advertising website.

• 29 mins ago

Ben Barba could resume his career in the Super League next season without missing a single game as the NRL is powerless to enforce his 12-match drugs ban in the English competition.

• 30 mins ago

South-east bracing for more thunderstorms as system moves along border.

• 33 mins ago

Abalone fisherman Frederico Nevolo, 52, has died in hospital.

• 37 mins ago

Maybe some Americans were serious when they threatened they would move to Canada if the Republican presidential candidate became successful in his often polarising campaign for the White House.

• 37 mins ago

On the evening of September 3, 2016, Patrick McCurley climbed the fence of the Alexander Maconochie Centre and spent the following day avoiding police in a stolen car by driving on the wrong side of Canberra roads, including O'Connor's MacCarthur Street and the Federal Highway.

• UPDATED
• 38 mins ago

Police have stepped up patrols outside the Coburg primary school where thieves staged a brazen carjacking with a baby on board on Tuesday afternoon.

• Live
• 38 mins ago

Markets around the world reel on the growing prospect of a Donald Trump victory in the US election.

• COMMENT
• 40 mins ago

Is it any of the NRL's business if Ben Barba takes cocaine?

• ANALYSIS
• 42 mins ago

As Europe wakes and looks across the Atlantic, there will be little shock. There will be a lot of grim recognition.

• 45 mins ago

The opposition and community groups have questioned whether the state government's $31 billion plan to redevelop Parramatta Road will overwhelm infrastructure in the area.

• 56 mins ago

Byron Bay woman Sara Connor destroyed the identity cards of the police officer whose bloodied corpse was found on the beach in Kuta because she was worried about them falling into the wrong hands, her lawyer says.

• 1 hr ago

West Coast Eagles have been fined by the AFL for failing to provide up-to-date player information to ASADA.

• 1 hr ago

They were waiting for Hillary Clinton with baseball bats in small town USA.

• 1 hr ago

Meanwhile far from reality, attendees at US consular events in Sydney and Canberra overwhelmingly voted for  Hillary Clinton.

• 1 hr ago

Republican Donald Trump edged closer to winning the White House with a series of shocking wins in battleground states such as Florida and Ohio on Tuesday.

• 1 hr ago

Investors dumped shares and fled to the relative safety of bonds and gold as they braced for Donald Trump winning the US election.

• 1 hr ago

The Australian dollar gave back all of its steep early gains to fall by more than a cent after Donald Trump claimed some major states in the US election.

• 1 hr ago

A couple who have sold marijuana for medicinal use have been found guilty of cultivating cannabis, but only after one juror objected to giving a verdict in their trial.

• ANALYSIS
• 1 hr ago

For not the first time this year, the news media by and large missed what was happening all around it, and it was the story of a lifetime.

• 1 hr ago

Woman who pleaded guilty to kicking a teenager after his head had been stomped on in a Chinatown alley has been slapped and kicked by the victim's mother in extraordinary scenes in a Melbourne court.

• 1 hr ago

It isn't often you get a successful chief executive regretting the announcement of their own retirement.

• 1 hr ago

Median waiting times for Canberrans to get surgery at the ACT's two public hospitals have blown out to levels not seen since 2011-12, despite a multi-million dollar blitz on elective surgeries in the months before the Territory election.

• Live
• 1 hr ago

The news and results as America decides on who will be their 45th President.

• 1 hr ago

A Queensland rocket scientist has been awarded the CSL Young Florey Medal for reinventing vaccination.

• 1 hr ago

Essendon have delisted Shaun McKernan, but the ruck-forward's AFL journey hasn't ended with the Bombers committing to bring him back as a rookie.

• 1 hr ago

Republicans are holding onto key Senate seats in Indiana and Florida as the other important results on US election day roll in.

• 1 hr ago

Seven AFL clubs broke the league's rules in 2016, but the league found they did so unintentionally.

• 1 hr ago

More expensive, less accountable, shared services dream doesn't come true.

• 1 hr ago

No set date set for Dreamworld reopening, CEO says.

• 1 hr ago

Canberra let's get behind a new fundraising effort led by Love Your Sister for breast cancer research.

• 1 hr ago

Medibank CEO Craig Drummond has blamed a slowdown hitting the entire $20 billion industry for hindering revenue growth.

The organiser of a Victorian punters club has been accused of defrauding $129 million from the syndicate members.

An alleged Rebels gang member faced court on Wednesday over the "brutal bashing" of a man at a Subiaco bar during Melbourne Cup celebrations on November 1.

The AFL says it is closing in on an improved pay deal for players in the new women's league.

• COMMENT

This is a sad and pathetic day. A man so thick he believes he can play global politics with the likes of Vladimir Putin and skip free is plain dangerous.

One man was killed and two women wounded when a gunman opened fire with an assault rifle at a house across the street from a polling station in the Southern California.

On Wednesday morning, as they filed into Bobby McGees, an American-themed bar and restaurant in inner-city Melbourne, the guests were pumped.