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About 500 people join family members at a silent vigil to celebrate the life of Courtney Herron, whose body was found in a Melbourne park a week ago.
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Victorian mother Chris Latimer has dealt with an unimaginable level of grief. She is sharing her story as the State Government holds a summit to address a sharp increase in road deaths and injuries.
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Andrew Barr is setting up next week's budget as a good news story for Canberra — but a $45 million surplus is masking a forecast deficit for the coming financial year.
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The world's biggest space agency plans to send rockets into space from a site 700 kilometres east of Darwin as soon as next year.
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As well as physical ailments, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shows "all the symptoms typical for prolonged exposure to psychological torture", a United Nations human rights investigator says.
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Mortgage repayments are set to become cheaper for many Australian borrowers, as lenders rush to cut their rates ahead of next Tuesday's widely anticipated Reserve Bank decision.
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Jason Considine is sentenced to 21 years' jail after admitting to strangling Ashley Phillips and dumping his body in a wheelie bin in Melbourne's north following a night of sex and cannabis smoking.
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Smoking rates have dropped massively since the 70s — down from 40 per cent to only 14 per cent — but some areas of the country are not getting the message.
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A former senior firefighter is sentenced to three years' prison for corruption after receiving $194,500 in payments from two companies he helped secure contracts with at Queensland Fire and Emergency Services.
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A former nursing assistant admits to stealing credit cards from cancer patients in her care, and using the stolen funds to buy thousands of dollars in cigarettes, groceries and alcohol.
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Adani needs just one more environmental approval before it can start building one of the country's biggest coal mines after the Queensland Government approves a crucial plan to protect an endangered bird.
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Contestants were tasked with words like 'enchytraem', 'annus mirabilis' and 'oeilade'. Take our quiz to see if you could be a winner at the 2019 incarnation of America's National Spelling Bee.
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Less than a week after Brad Scott departed as coach, the Kangaroos produce a commanding performance to beat the Tigers by 37 points in Rhyce Shaw's first match in charge.
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The Eels break their three-match losing streak with a spirited 26-14 triumph over a Rabbitohs outfit missing several of their stars because of State of Origin.
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A foster parent is sentenced to more than 15 years' jail for sexually abusing six children in his care, including one young Perth girl who was not believed when she complained to authorities.
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After backing it and then changing it, the Heart Foundation takes the step of fully removing a controversial ad campaign that suggested people who do not look after their health do not love their families.
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Decades of rubbish, faeces, asbestos and medical waste is at risk of spilling into the Southern Ocean if a million-dollar rock wall in south-west Victoria is not built in time.
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Our personal data isn't staying with the companies that collect it — it is being bought, sold and shared in ways most of have no idea about.
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An amateur astronomer has stunned experts with his photos of the Great Red Spot — a centuries-old storm raging above Jupiter.
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Scenes of the first-ever solar eclipse to be captured on film nearly 120 years ago offer "a captivating glimpse of Victorian science in action".
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The pair of runaways are still at large after reportedly going "absolutely mad" at a pony named Peaches and a pygmy goat called Betty when they escaped their pen.
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Farmers are paying bigger bucks for a decent working dog, especially in the drought.
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It felt as if the winds of change were blowing through the Catholic Church after the royal commission. But a new defence has rejected some of its key findings in relation to one of its most notorious paedophile priests, writes Louise Milligan.
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No-one had ever made the connection between my disorder and my bank account. This is the story of how I learned to manage my money with ADHD.