Congress has opened for battle over the Affordable Care Act as Republicans pushed immediately to repeal the health care law and President Barack Obama made a rare trip to Capitol Hill to defend it.
200 Victorian schools will get bushfire safety upgrade works in 2017, but only 51 by the time school starts.
Children who obtain alcohol from people other than their parents are three times more likely to binge drink by 15 or 16, compared to those given a drink by their parents, a major new study has found
Derby police in the state's North West got into a different kind of Christmas spirit over the holidays – seizing 650 litres of alcohol in a 12 day blitz, and in doing so, rapidly reducing the number of domestic violence call-outs received.
More than one-third of the cranes hovering over apartment building sites in Australian cities are in neighbourhoods banks have "blacklisted" as lending problem spots.
The ACCC is urging motorists to fill up, with petrol prices expected to jump in coming days.
Australia's defence cooperation with Indonesia spans some of the most controversial issues in domestic and international politics today.
A Queensland politician has lashed out at online bullies after a Facebook page encouraging people to send in memes ridiculing her was posted online.
Indonesia's hardliner military chief Gatot Nurmantyo has little love for Australia.
A crime scene has been established after a body was discovered in a burnt out car at Wakefield, west of Newcastle.
How would you describe Canberra in 30 characters?
She's given to so many, now it's time to help out Canberra's soup kitchen lady.
The shutdown of a key part of the Tullamarine Freeway starts tonight at 10pm and will add an estimated 40 minutes to journeys between the city and the airport as tens of thousands of vehicles snake their way through the north-west suburbs via lengthy detours.
It's Thursday, January 5, and the nation's top business leaders have now made more money this year than the average Australian makes all year long.
One of Sydney's largest private schools looks set to close after a tribunal upheld a federal government decision to revoke its funding over concerns it was operating for profit.
NSW Health has issued a new measles warning after an infectious traveller arrived in Sydney.
A truck driver who was pulled over by police on a road in Sydney's west on Thursday morning got out of his rig only to be hit by a semi-trailer and killed, police say.
One of the last three members of a separatist religious group that arrived in America in 1774 has died after a brief battle with cancer.
Firefighters who thought they had seen it all had seen nothing like the Yarloop blaze, and they were the first to ask what had gone wrong.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called the media corrupt and dishonest - but the emails published by WikiLeaks during the US election campaign didn't really support such a breathless conclusion.
Those whose lives were touched or destroyed by the Waroona-Yarloop fires will never know what time it started on the night of January 5, 2016. But three days later two men were dead, 181 homes were destroyed and the historic town of Yarloop was in ashes.
Some unlucky Melburnians will be lashed by a major thunderstorm on Thursday bringing with it rainfall of the magnitude of last week's one in 100 year storm, except this time we can expect hail as well.
A man has been hospitalised after being attacked by two men during an attempted robbery in his Nowra home.
A 17-year-old boy has fallen 12 metres to his death at a building site in the CBD.
A man feared drowned in flood waters in far north Queensland was swept away while trying to warn motorists of the dangerous conditions.
Be warned: The weather bureau is predicting storms, showers and possible hail.
Defence Minister Marise Payne has denied Australia has recruited Indonesian military officers as spies or agents of influence.
A 16-year-old boy who allegedly attacked a Gold Coast bus driver on Wednesday night has been remanded in custody.
Dementia is more common in people who live near main roads, a major study has found, raising more concern about impact of traffic pollution on people's health.
Trouble? Bruce Johnson had been there – and didn't need it again – let alone a horse named after it. But the comeback trainer is glad he's got him.
Most of the world's reefs will suffer annual coral bleaching within 26 years but the Great Barrier Reef will be hit much later if carbon emission targets are met, a new study says.
Elevator rides are not usually worth documenting. But when you step into the elevator at Shanghai Tower, people often pull out their cameras.
Buy the election, sell the inauguration, says Morgan Stanley. The rally fuelled by dreams to "rebuild America" has run far enough.
Shares continue their charmed run after Wall St and the Aussie dollar shrug off a hawkish edge to US Fed minutes.
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California-based company shows off 'ultra-luxury' 1000-horsepower car, aims to have it on the streets in 2018.
Convicted mass killer Dylann Roof showed he has no remorse for shooting nine black parishioners during a Bible study in a historic church.
A woman went on a racist rant against two shoppers at a Coles supermarket in Melbourne's west threatening them with a food tin and abusing staff as they tried to defuse the aggression situation.
A city official in south-west China unleashed a barrage of gunfire on the city's mayor and Communist Party secretary during a meeting on Wednesday, injuring them before fleeing and killing himself.
Emergency services are frantically searching for a 60-year-old man who was swept away by flood waters in the Atherton Tablelands last night.
Australia posted its fourth-hottest year in 2016, driven by record sea-surface temperatures around the nation, in a period marked by frequent extreme events, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Why the government should pay back your mortgage debt, according to maverick economics professor Steve Keen.
Your NRL club's young gun to watch in 2017.
Two more women have come forward to police saying they were sexually assaulted at Tasmania's Falls Festival.
A man has been charged with a match fixing offence which allegedly occurred at a tennis tournament in Traralgon.
On Tuesday, the 17-year-old son of a congressman decided to give the dab a comeback, setting off chuckles through the internet.
The Facebook founder's no-show at Trump Tower may be linked to possible White House ambitions.
A union has called for the bus safety review to include tougher penalties, after a bus driver was assaulted while on the job last night.
Ford's decision to can a planned factory in Mexico stems more from its long-term goals than Donald Trump or devotion to US workers, analysts say.
A man was injured when he was slashed with a Stanley knife during a road rage incident at Kings Park, in Melbourne's north-west.
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