President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview on Friday that the storm surrounding Russian hacking during the presidential campaign is a political witch hunt being carried out by his adversaries, who he said were embarrassed by their loss to him in the election last year.
Tilikum, the killer whale featured in the documentary "Blackfish" that made the case against keeping orcas in captivity died on Friday, SeaWorld officials said.
Global equity prices edged lower after December's US non-farm payrolls report set the stage for further rate increases.
Chinese coking coal prices were higher on Friday, notching up their first weekly rise in more than a month. Iron ore tumbled.
The US labour market turned in a solid performance at the end of 2016, putting job gains above 2 million for a sixth year.
An Italian tourist has been charged with dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm after a female motorcyclist was critically injured in a crash on the NSW north coast.
Russia has begun a drawdown of its military forces in Syria, news agencies quoted the head of the Russian General Staff as saying on Friday.
President-elect Donald Trump defended a plan to ask Congress to initially pay for building a wall at the US-Mexico border, saying that he'll demand repayment from Mexico.
The weekend's extreme heat has come as something of a surprise, with the forecast for Saturday revised up six degrees in the last 48 hours.
Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a veteran of four presidential administrations and one of the nation's leading intelligence experts, resigned on Thursday from President-elect Donald Trump's transition team because of growing tensions over Trump's vision for intelligence agencies.
What lies ahead for our major sectors, and related regulatory landscape, in 2017?
We've managed to get 15 years of beach quality data from the Environmental Protection Agency, and it shows there are eight beaches that have had an unbroken run of good years.
With troubled baby formula group Bellamy's to issue its long-awaited trading update next week, dissident shareholders seeking to take board control will also meet next week to map out their push to topple the board.
A leading jockey has been accused of animal cruelty after he posted a video on social media that showed him apparently torturing a southern eagle ray on a fishing trip off the Mornington Peninsula.
London police have gone to unusual lengths to track down an alleged burglar, posting a letter on social media which pleaded: "please stop ignoring us".
Don't be surprised if we continue to see changes in the gaming market in 2017 - with the next one looking like a tie up between James Packer's Crown Resorts and ClubsNSW.
One of Queensland's most prestigious schools has refused to reconsider a refund of tuition fees to students who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a notorious paedophile at the school, despite an online petition managing to accrue more than 1100 signatures.
A 10-year-old boy from Bentleigh East has been missing for three days.
The Reserve Bank is aware it is hurting retirees with lower interest rates. But it's all part of the plan.
Beginning this weekend Domino's Pizza workers will receive an extra 25 per cent loading when they work on Sundays, to be paid for a by a new surcharge on orders across its Australia network.
Point Lonsdale and Fairhaven beaches on Victoria's south-west coast have been closed after a spate of shark sightings.
A fisherman snagged the catch of his career when he reeled in a mammoth hammerhead shark from the mouth of the Brisbane River on Thursday.
If machines had brains, then the bomb disposal robot wheeled in to investigate a suspicious package on Melbourne's Spencer Street on Friday evening could have been described as "contemplative".
One hour north of Melbourne there's a factory that makes magic. This is the where every jelly bean, red frog, raspberry snake and party mix bag is made for Australia and New Zealand
Despite still having just the single major operational runway, Brisbane Airport has been ranked the fifth-best performing airport of its size in the world in an international survey of on-time performance.
Kimbal Musk - Elon's brother - just opened a shipping container farm compound in New York City.
Drones are needed in every major police station in Queensland and cameras at all intersections if police are to cope with the new pursuit policy.
Following the pounds' drop, increased costs for sourcing products such as Italian olive oil have made the branches "quite unsustainable," a spokeswoman said.
A man has been rescued after a freak accident at a ski resort in the United States which left him strangled by the strap of his own backpack.
Accused cop killer David Eastman has taken his fight for innocence to the country's highest court.
Victoria is in for an unprecedented shark season, with more sharks already spotted swimming off beaches than the last three seasons combined.
Australia's peak Islamic body has refused to relinquish land being used by one of the state's largest schools despite the potential for such a move to save the school from being shut down.
Is this the "biggest typo ever", as one reader called it?
Saturday patronage on NSW's public transport network fell sharply following an overhaul of Opal fares, an internal government report reveals.
Voyage of a lifetime turns into nightmare for retired NSW couple and more than 500 other Australians.
Our slipping education results could be a turning point, if we allow it.
Have a spate of bites and sightings up and down the NSW coast raised the odds that an attack awaits beachgoers this summer? Peter Hannam investigates.
If I were a public servant I would be getting pretty damn sick and tired of being told by an insipid and gutless public service leadership that the major problem of today is a risk-averse culture located somewhere within the service – implicitly not at the top.
Two Sydney mums are encouraging families to ditch their digital devices and spend more time together.
The chaos in Turkey is mostly of President Erdogan's making.
Christmas Eve kicked off the busiest week ever for the Canberra Hospital's emergency department.
Most of NSW will endure heatwave conditions from now until at least the middle of next week as a hot air mass moves in from central Australia.
If your Sunday plans involve catching some rays, prepare for a scorcher.
Charley was born at a time that the medical consensus on peanut allergy was to delay introducing the food in infants deemed to be at high risk.
Bunbury mum Keira was moved to tears by the response to her request for anybody with a Harley Davidson to "pop by" and rev their bikes for her son' 13th birthday.
Shares ended the first week of 2017 as they finished last year: with strong gains, led by Telstra's rise to a four-month high.
The AMA has sought to calm fears over a popular children's sunscreen, after a mother's complaint on Facebook went viral.
The future of Victoria's biggest exporter and electricity consumer hangs in the balance. The outage occurred with remarkable timing - just days after Alcoa's 30-year government-subsidised power contract ended and with power prices looking likely to rise after the closure of the Hazelwood power station.
Canberra - you've done it again.
Almost 40 years since his death Elvis Presley lives on in the hearts of many
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