Major indexes hit a series of record highs, lifted by a combination of strong economic growth, solid corporate earnings, low interest rates and hopes for a tax cut from Donald J. Trump.

Development opportunity. Fixer-upper. Blank slate. Good bones. Bring your toolbox – you know the drill.

"The biggest things these extremists get is community," Usman Raja said, ticking off the names of the convicted terrorists now working with him. "They treat each other with love and they hate everybody else."

Donald J. Trump came up trumps, despite – or more likely because of – the overwhelmingly negative sentiment many readers expressed towards him.

The Doomsday clock is getting closer to midnight for Malcolm Turnbull as he approaches 30 bad Newspolls in a row.

Love is the inspiration for this year's New Year's Eve soundtrack.

Getting us where we live – in our smartphones – is the most effective way to send us a message: that while we're waiting for Instagram to open, we could be looking up.

Meet Kenneth Hayne, Australia's next royal commissioner.

The appeal of a crossword, David Astle reckons, is the beautiful balance between "ah-ha" and "ha-ha".

The Royal Australian Navy has seized almost eight tonnes of hashish and 69 kilograms of heroin from drug smugglers in the Arabian Sea.

The story of 2017 is also one of multiculturalism's resilience, writes Tim Soutphommasane.

Via The Sydney Morning Herald Comment.

To its supporters the expansion of the Art Gallery of New South Wales is a refreshing indication that authorities retain a commitment to public art. But to its critics it is an unwarranted land grab.

It's the monsoon season in Indonesia and local governments in Bali have declared a "trash emergency" on Kuta and Legian beaches.

The grieving family of Australian Stephen Richardson fear that interest in his murder has vanished as quickly as his killer escaped into the muggy Balinese night.