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A leaked report into the country's electricity market says Australia is not on track to meet the Paris climate change commitments and that investment in the sector has stalled because there is no long-term Government policy to reduce carbon emissions.
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A magnitude-7.8 earthquake strikes off the Solomon Islands, the US Geological Survey says, prompting widespread tsunami warnings across the Pacific.
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Exquisitely preserved bones and feathers from a baby dinosaur's tail have been discovered in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber, found by a palaeontologist hunting for fossils in a South-East Asian market.
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The Syrian regime and the Russian Government ignore calls for urgent humanitarian evacuations from Aleppo, as terrified civilians trapped inside the city send out desperate calls for help.
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The green light is given for the construction of Adelaide's tallest tower, a 134-metre-high hotel and apartment building on Frome Street in the East End.
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Cameras are being strapped to feral cats outside Roxby Downs, in South Australia, as researchers monitor their eating habits amid fears the felines will turn to eating native animals after the release of the newest strain of rabbit calicivirus.
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Many people with disabilities are still working for less than $3 an hour almost four years after Australia's High Court ruled they were being underpaid at Government-supported workshops.
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A truck driver who claims he had a coughing fit and blacked out moments before a fatal crash at Murray Bridge told his doctor he had crashed his vehicle twice before the 2015 accident for the same reason, a court hears.
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Another 250 students with disabilities will be given access to special educational services in South Australia under a State Government funding boost.
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The owner of some of Australia's most famous food brands is linked to deforestation in Indonesia after new footage emerges of land clearing in North Sumatra.
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US President-elect Donald Trump is set to nominate Scott Pruitt, a critic of federal environmental regulation, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a choice that has enraged conservationists and cheered the oil industry.
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Wanted man Conan Taylor, who allegedly threatened police with a gun in rural South Australia, is arrested at Blakeview, in Adelaide's north.
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An aged care watchdog's response to an Adelaide nursing home's handling of a dementia patient's attack on another patient is "underwhelming", the coroner says.
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The rift within One Nation grows increasingly public with party leader Pauline Hanson criticising Rod Culleton's lack of experience and calling for him to listen to her and other party senators.
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A new use for the metal vanadium is emerging as energy savvy consumers look for a better way of storing solar power than lithium-ion batteries.
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Time magazine denies its Person of the Year cover intentionally gave US President-elect Donald Trump " cat, bat or devil horns", after it causes a stir online.
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More than 11,000 people are left homeless in the Indonesian province of Aceh by this week's magnitude-6.5 earthquake, which killed at least 102 people and injured hundreds more.
