A new tobacco crackdown could face delays over opposition to smaller penalties for first-time business offenders.

New rapid at-home testing kits for chlamydia and gonorrhoea will be available in the next couple of weeks for any women who ...

A prominent Ugandan opposition politician has been kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya, transferred to Uganda and is ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families have launched legal action against the Western Australian and NSW governments ...

A woman involved with a group of alleged fraudsters posing as psychics will remain behind bars, as police warn against giving ...

A driver who killed her five-year-old niece and caused a woman to have a stillbirth has been spared jail.

Musicians have walked the red carpet ahead of the Australian music industry's night of nights, the ARIA awards.

A new cybercrime report is received every six minutes with small businesses and everyday Australians bearing the brunt of the ...

A jury considering the fate of a police officer who fatally tasered a 95-year-old woman has been sent home for the day after ...

A wildlife park owner has praised a magistrate for defending much-loved chicken Betty White who was grabbed by grandfather ...

Indigenous women represent one-third of deaths related to domestic and family violence since June, say advocates who ...

A woman who unintentionally killed her baby daughter by placing her in a scalding hot bath will spend more than two years in ...