Courts
Police to drive alleged parent killer back to Qld because of flight shortage
Christopher Puglia, 31, is facing two murder charges after he was arrested in northern Sydney, four hours after his parents' bodies were found.
- by Callum Godde and Tracey Ferrier
Latest
Traffic incident
Garbage truck driver found not guilty of grandmother’s death charge
Teremoana "Tere" Tekii, 29, was on his last job of the day when he reversed up a narrow Dee Why service road and collided with 58-year-old Hane Mathieson as she walked her two- year-old grandson.
- by Callum Godde
Hospitals
Company cleared of Sydney hospital gas bungle that killed one baby and left another brain-damaged
Two newborn babies were given nitrous oxide – commonly referred to as laughing gas – instead of oxygen after works carried out by BOC and a sub-contractor resulted in a fatal mix-up.
- by Steve Zemek
Queensland
Victims and dam operator in 'furious agreement' over Qld flood payout
Lawyers for victims of the 2011 Brisbane floods and a large Queensland dam operator agree about how to split one of Australia's biggest class-action payouts.
- by Luke Costin
Sydney
Man jailed for 1989 murder of Sydney bookmaker Charles Skarratt
The children of a Sydney bookmaker who was gagged, bound, bashed, robbed and stabbed to death in his Sydney garage had to wait more than 30 years for justice to be done.
- by Margaret Scheikowski
Drugs
Five men guilty, 79 years' jail over two tonnes of drugs worth $1 billion
From 13 years to 20 years - the last of five men guilty over their role in one of Australia's largest drug importations has been sentenced.
- by Michael Evans
Crime
Rhyming slang, lines of coke and a $700k bag of cash: A day in the life of Andrew McManus
Music promoter Andrew McManus is in court over a failed scheme to lie to police about his ownership of a bag of cash.
- by Kate McClymont
Tyrrell disappearance
'Drunk' man lied about whereabouts on day William Tyrrell vanished: inquest told
Tony Jones told his wife he was going scrapping with his son the day William went missing, then came home "so drunk he wasn't walking straight" hours later.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
Crime
The rock promoter, the lawyer, the gambler and the bag of cash
Promoter was desperate for cash to fund a Lenny Kravitz tour.
- by Kate McClymont
Takata airbag scandal
'Grave risk': Coroner urges car owners to replace Takata airbags immediately
Deputy State Coroner Elaine Truscott says the airbags can cause "a serious injury akin to a gunshot wound".
- by Georgina Mitchell
NSW
Bail denied over Brisbane teacher's fatal NSW ordeal
A woman kept a photograph of a "distressed" schoolteacher who was tied to a chair before he was killed by a truck on a northern New South Wales highway.
- by Robyn Wuth