Sydney heat triggers ozone level warning and total fire ban
Health authorities have warned Sydneysiders to be on alert as the baking sun sends temperatures and ozone levels soaring and triggers a total fire ban.
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Trump asks vaccine sceptic to lead commission on 'vaccine safety'
Donald Trump asked Robert Kennedy Jr., a proponent of a widely discredited theory that vaccines cause autism, to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, according to Kennedy.
Year 12 graduates with a higher ATAR more likely to take gap year
A report on Canberra's 2015 year 12 graduates shows the higher a students ATAR, the more likely they were to take a gap year.
115 Canberrans to lose power on 38 degree day
ActewAGL will cut power to parts of Hughes and Hawker on Friday, when the mercury is set to reach 38 degrees.
ASX is momentum driven market
The new year has greeted Australian stocks with a bull market but 2016 wasn't an easy ride.
Loyal public servant to 7 prime ministers rides into the sunset
Human rights pioneer, who broke the news of Harold Holt's disappearance, retires after remarkable seven-decade career.
Women dominate the ranks of ACT public service, but pay not as good as you might think
If you thought the ACT public service was the place for plum salaries, you might be surprised at the reality.
Four children arrested after fire destroys classroom
Four children have been arrested after a classroom at a school west of Gympie was destroyed by fire on Tuesday afternoon.
Julie Bishop billed taxpayers $2700 for polo trip
Julie Bishop is the latest politician facing scrutiny over travel expense claims as calls for an overhaul of the entitlements system grow louder.
8@eight: Metal jump to boost ASX
The local stock market is set to open higher on the back of a strong night for commodities' markets.
Truck driver charged over death of another truckie
A man has been charged after a truck driver was hit by another truck and died near Drewvale on Tuesday.
L-plater caught speeding at 170km/h on Hume Highway with 4 passengers
Police charged a disqualified learner driver on Tuesday afternoon after the 20-year-old woman sped past them on the Hume Highway near Tumbalong before she lead them on a chase reaching speeds of 170km/h.
Motorcylist dies after crashing into street sign
A motorcyclist has died after he crashed into a sign in Logan on Tuesday evening.
Gross sees 2.6pc inflection point
When 10-year US Treasuries trade above 2.6pc, it will mark an end to the three-decade bond bull market, says Bill Gross.
Olympic bid still on track: Toowoomba mayor
South-east Queensland's tentative bid to host the 2028 Olympics should be a serious state election issue, according to Toowoomba's mayor.
Sydney Now: What we got for Christmas revealed
It`ll be 38 degrees in the city today and 41 in the west. Phew what a scorcher, as they will invariably say on tonight`s evening news.
Shipwreck hunters search for the Bona Vista
Scientists from the Australian National Maritime Museum have departed on an expedition to the Coral Sea to search for a number of famous 19th century shipwrecks.
Flaming garbage truck returned to Queanbeyan base
A flaming garbage truck was returned safely to its Queanbeyan base on Tuesday after being spotted alight at Symonston.
Reborn Quade lauds new Reds culture
A clean slate, full pre-season and a backline jam-packed with potential has Quade Cooper right where he wants to be as he readies for his Super Rugby return.
Sale of public land already a done deal - not that residents have been told
Sitting in the planning department's office this week, reading through submissions to the Andrews government's public land sales committee, I felt for the 70-odd people who had written to ask that their open space not be taken from them.
Resident fury as Melbourne Water moves to sell off public land used as parks
Tens of millions of dollars worth of public land - some of it cherished parks and reserves - are being prepared for sale by the Andrews government, as its agencies move to offload assets deemed "surplus".
Fox host Bill O'Reilly caught up in sexual harassment scandal
In the weeks after Roger Ailes was ousted as the chairman of Fox News in July, amid a sexual harassment scandal, company executives secretly struck an agreement with a longtime on-air personality who had come forward with similar accusations about the network's top host, Bill O'Reilly.
How to remove Donald Trump from office
Donald Trump is a one-man basket of deplorables. He is a braggart and a liar. He is a bully and a demagogue. He is an ignoramus and a deadbeat, a chiseler and either a sincere racist or an insincere one, and his love for himself is matched only by my loathing of him. He is about to be president of the United States. A constitutional coup may be in the offing.
Reporter who broke news about start of World War II, dies at 105
She once showed up at the editorial office with a bed roll, asking editors, "Any foreign trips going? Any wars?"
Fed hawk Lacker to retire
Jeffrey Lacker's retirement in October will mark the exit of one of the US central bank's most steadfast inflation fighters.
Chinese bomber flies round contested Spratlys: US official
A Chinese H-6 strategic bomber flew around the Spratly Islands at the weekend in a new show of force in the contested South China Sea, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.
Spectacular cloud formation photographed on Australian flight
A spectacular cloud formation captured during a flight over the Great Australian Bight has delighted weather enthusiasts and enraged conspiracy theorists.
Home intruders attack woman with tins of food in Blacktown: police
A woman who discovered two intruders in the kitchen of her house in Sydney's west overnight was attacked with tins of food when she confronted the men, police say.
Canberra Now: News in 90 seconds for January 11, 2017
An exclusive interview with a Centrelink worker, a proposal to knock down shops in Curtin Square and the (slight) pay gap between men and women working for the ACT government.
US crude output poised to rise
The decline in US crude output that began amid a global slump in oil markets in mid-2014 appears finally to be over.
Sessions hearing disrupted by protesters wearing KKK outfits
Sessions is the first of the Trump administration's most controversial nominees to appear for Senate confirmation.
Boy, 8, drowns in Lake Hume
An eight-year-old boy has drowned at Lake Hume in north-east Victoria.
Blog post lands professor on Fox News, prompts barrage of hate mail
Sacramento State history professor set off firestorm after writing that people who deny climate change "shouldn't be allowed" to use social media.
Dalian iron ore surges 8pc
Dalian iron ore surged to its highest in more than three weeks amid renewed threats to Chinese steel output.
Woman arrested for Craigslist plot was framed in a 'diabolical scheme'
Police say a young woman accused of multiple serious crimes was the "innocent victim of a diabolical scheme" meticulously planned and executed by her ex-fiance's new wife.
New Thai king asks for changes to draft constitution
Thailand's prime minister says he will honour the new king's request made in a letter to the military government.
Twin blasts claimed by Taliban kill more than 20 people in Kabul
Blasts from a suicide bomber and explosives-laden vehicle struck a highly guarded district in the Afghan capital Tuesday.
Swiss Muslim girls must attend mixed swim class, court rules
A Muslim couple who refused on religious grounds to allow their two young daughters take part in boys-and-girls school swimming lessons in Switzerland did not have the right to do so, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday.
Bigwig education official charged over alleged $6m schools rort
Disgraced former Education Department big wig Nino Napoli is among six people charged over their alleged involvement in a corrupt ring that swindled more than $6 million from Victorian state schools.
Why this $73b fund is 'scared of everything'
What's really worrying a fund that banks on being scared of everything?
Heatwave looming for south-east Qld
Queensland weather this week is all about extremes.
Alleged teenage firebugs receive caution over Ballarat fires
Two 13-year-old boys have been cautioned over a series of recent fires in Ballarat.
'Caught me off guard': Shark charges diver
A diver on an annual spearfishing trip with friends in far north Queensland had to think quick when a shark charged towards him from the depths of the ocean.
Missing contract sparks Primary boss probe
It was in late 2011 when a curious auditor inside construction giant Leighton Holdings stumbled across an odd transaction.
Will Alibaba create one million jobs? Unlikely.
Jack Ma got plenty of good press out of his meeting with the President-elect.
Teenagers arrested and charged after two armed robberies in Minto
Two teenagers have been arrested and charged after they allegedly robbed two businesses in Sydney's south west in the past month.
Queensland ministers spend half a million in overseas travel in one year
Politicians' travel bills and entitlements will always be a bone of contention with voters - no matter how little money they make, a political expert says.
Unique plan to tackle homelessness
A wealthy Melbourne family is putting up $4 million to build more than 50 portable homes for poor people on vacant VicRoads properties in a unique project to tackle the city's homelessness crisis.
FIFA unanimously approves 48-team World Cup as of 2026
FIFA's council has unanimously backed plans by President Gianni Infantino to expand the World Cup to 48 teams from 32 starting in 2026, the global soccer body said on Tuesday.
'We would have 400 people moving through that area on any one day': Principal
A seven-metre high brick wall over the top of Villanova College's seniors' area, classrooms and tuckshop at Coorparoo has miraculously collapsed while their students are on holidays and not at school.