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Testing has shown PFAS is contaminating water in the Northern Territory town and residents, fearful of the health implications, are calling for more than just "snippets of information" from authorities.
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Your employer has the right to check your emails. And, as high-profile cases like that of Channel 7 cadet reporter Amy Taeuber show, your work communications can have huge ramifications.
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Veterans of the last catastrophic eruption of Mount Agung in Bali in 1963 are among the 75,000 locals living in evacuation centres as the volcano rumbles.
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An elderly Queensland couple who could lose their home and business after falling victim to the alleged mastermind of a massive tax-evasion scheme say their plight is "soul destroying" and "devastating".
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This Canberra retiree says his "badge of honour" — a $20,000 energy system — generates enough power to run all his home energy needs, charge his son's hybrid SUV and sell excess back to the grid.
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Saudi King Salman issues a decree saying women will be allowed to drive by June next year, ending a conservative tradition seen by rights activists as an emblem of the Islamic kingdom's repression of women.
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Was Lachlan Macquarie a "mass murderer who ordered the genocide of Indigenous people" as academic Bronwyn Carlson claims? RMIT ABC Fact Check delves into a fraught and controversial part of our history.
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Northern Australia is one of the few places in the world without malaria, but how did it get eradicated, and why hasn't it come back? We answer a reader's Curious Darwin question.
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US President Donald Trump continues his war of words with the NFL, calling on the popular league to introduce a rule banning players from kneeling during the US national anthem, days after saying team owners should fire players who did so.
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It's hard to imagine how you might cope with losing not one but three children and then her husband, but Sophie Smith has discovered a way.
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Vanuatu's Government declares a state of emergency after an erupting volcano forces at least 6,000 people to flee their homes on the island of Ambae.
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Facing certain defeat, Republican leaders decide not to even hold a vote on the latest attempt to repeal Barack Obama's healthcare law, in a stinging rejection on the issue for President Donald Trump.
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England Test vice-captain Ben Stokes could be in doubt for this year's Ashes tour after he was arrested following an alleged late-night pub fight in Bristol that left a man in hospital with facial injuries.
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Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani declares victory for the "yes" vote in the Kurdish independence referendum, despite ongoing threats of being cut-off from Baghdad and a swathe of regional neighbours.
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A man allegedly driving while his licence was suspended is charged over a fatal hit-and-run in Sydney, in which a 19-year-old woman was killed early on Sunday morning.
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The parents of the US student, who died soon after being released from detention in North Korea, say "terrorists" tortured their son and left him blind, deaf, howling and "staring blankly into space".
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The Commonwealth will argue only Malcolm Roberts and Scott Ludlam should be found to have been wrongly elected to Parliament at the last election, which also potentially opens the door for Larissa Waters to return.
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What if we're sending too many country students down a tertiary degree path when they'd be better off doing a trade? It's a question a review of regional education is trying to answer.
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One of the nation's largest Aboriginal organisations is pushing for a treaty as a "chance to heal the past" and to deepen Aboriginal participation in the economy.
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Hundreds of spectators gather to send off about 80 baby sea turtles as they are released from Casuarina beach in Darwin.
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Colleen Harris is no stranger to photographing children and families, but some of her most precious work is done with families that have just suffered the devastating loss of a child.
