Sydney news

A New South Wales doctor accused of murdering his elderly mother at her home will be extradited to Hobart today.

A 29-year-old man from the Hobart suburb of New Town dies after an accident on the Channel Highway last night.

Fremantle Traffic Bridge is closed for up to a week after erosion is discovered at the foundation of one of the bridge's piers.

Western Force skipper Matt Hodgson produces another huge effort, but it is not enough as his team slips to a seventh straight loss.

North Melbourne's unbeaten run at the top of the AFL ladder continues with a 16-point win over Western Bulldogs at Docklands.

The Parramatta Eels beat the Canterbury Bulldogs 20-12 to remain in fifth spot on the NRL ladder.

Queensland police have shut down the tattoo business of high-profile Rebels member and bikie spokesman "Little" Mick Kosenko in north Brisbane.

Caitlin Bassett continues to add glittering accolades to her netball resume after recently becoming the first Australian to score 4,000 goals in trans-Tasman netball championship history.

Electric train services resume on the Seaford and Tonsley rail lines in Adelaide, nearly 36 hours after an electrical fault at the Lonsdale substation shut down the services.

Ecologists have labelled a monthly water monitoring regime in the inlet of Perth's $440 million Elizabeth Quay "inadequate".

Hundreds of protesters against the Manus Island and Nauru detention centres gather in Brisbane following the death of Iranian refugee Omid, who died after setting himself on fire on Nauru.

Western Australia's tiniest local government, the remote Sandstone Shire, is in better financial health than city councils in ritzy suburbs like Peppermint Grove and Mosman Park, according to a new State Government website.

Peter Dutton says "appropriate support" is being provided to the family of a refugee who has died in a Brisbane hospital after setting himself on fire at the Nauru detention centre.

The Northern Territory Supreme Court orders the return of nearly 12,000 emails seized under warrant in a police investigation into former NT opposition leader Delia Lawrie.

Caitlin Bassett continues to add glittering accolades to her netball resume after recently becoming the first Australian to score 4,000 goals in trans-Tasman netball championship history.

Eels star Kieran Foran departs Australia for an overseas rehabilitation clinic after reportedly overdosing on prescription medication.

Staff from Sydney Dogs and Cats Home step up a campaign to keep the shelter from closing, after the land they lease was put up for redevelopment.

Police make an arrest after cordoning off a block of units in Adelaide's CBD following reports of a man allegedly wielding a weapon.

The WA Police Gang Crime Squad is called in to ease "growing tensions" between two major outlaw motorcycle gangs following a fatal shoot-out in Perth's northern suburbs.

A 44-year-old man is charged with murder over the death of a 74-year-old woman in Bentleigh on Tuesday.

Northern Territory Planning Minister Dave Tollner declines to list contested Aboriginal land in Darwin as a heritage site, paving the way for a shopping centre proposed for part of the Kulaluk land lease.

Detectives investigate the death of a man at a remote Aboriginal community in Western Australia's East Pilbara, with a woman taken into custody.

She has run an ultramarathon and survived burns to 65 per cent of her body and now Turia Pitt is preparing to compete in her first Ironman event.

Three people who had protested against a development in the Perth hills are successful in a defamation battle lasting more than four years.

A former drug addict whose life hit rock bottom is one of a small number of people who are part of an unconventional detoxification approach being practised by a church in country New South Wales.

As Perth Zoo approaches a milestone in its Western Swamp Tortoise breeding program, a lack of habitat and global warming means Australia's most critically endangered reptile still faces a long road to recovery.

The best way to end the working week. This week's panel were Rebecca de Unamuno, Michael Hing and Subby Valentine.

Opera singer Nicole Car had not heard an opera until she was 17, but just over a decade later, she is one of Australia's brightest stars.

The NSW Swifts and Queensland Firebirds, both undefeated this year, will collide again in a grand-final rematch on Saturday night in Brisbane.

Dorelle Fox, 71, has set herself a goal to beat all three of her world records at the upcoming World Field Archery Championships.

The South Australian Ambulance Service faces a backlash from people angry about what they say is the service's failure to advise them of a major policy change that will affect interstate ambulance cover.

The RSPCA seizes 21 dogs and puppies from a property at Wendouree, in central Victoria, which it claims were living in squalid conditions.

A man abducted and beaten by two men after a drug deal went wrong still suffers nightmares more than two years after the attack, he says.

Youth crisis refuges will soon be staffed around the clock in a bid to help people under the age of 24 get back on their feet.

Police cordon off a block of units on Moore Street in Adelaide's CBD after reports of a man wielding a weapon in the area.

Numan Haider dropped a suspected foreign fighter at Melbourne International Airport on the day he stabbed two police officers, the Australian Federal Police tells an inquest.

Logging is halted in a disputed logging coupe in Lapoinya after the discovery of a wedge-tailed eagle nest.

The sale of several coal mines by large miners to small players at fire sale prices raises concerns that there may not be enough cash left for clean-ups when they cease production.

Four cement companies are ordered to pay more than $18 million in penalties after they were found to have prevented competition in the concrete market in south-east Queensland.

A leaked document shows the South Australian Government was warned about the risks of power failure on its maligned Seaford passenger railway line, the Opposition says.

More than 200 millimetres of rain has fallen on the Charles Darwin Reserve , near Perenjori, since the beginning of the year.

Tasmanian police are extraditing a NSW doctor who is charged with the murder of his 88-year-old mother in Hobart.

A convicted murderer and rapist is sentenced to seven months' prison for escaping lawful custody after he absconded from a low-security work camp in Nhulunbuy last year.

Despite a week of light training, Adelaide United striker Bruce Djite says he is fit and in no doubt for Sunday's A-League grand final.

A Northern Territory Supreme Court judge declares invalid a police warrant for emails to and from former opposition leader Delia Lawrie.

Reflecting on the response to a recent oysters disease outbreak, the Federal Government says lessons have been learnt.

A breakthrough in schizophrenia research that could revolutionise early diagnosis of the illness has been unveiled at a conference in Newcastle.

Senator Nick Xenophon's plea to renegotiate a contract to build Australia's Antarctic icebreaker in Adelaide is "irresponsible", federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt says.

Australia's longest-running agricultural aid lifts East Timor's farmers out of poverty and malnutrition.

Police say a man killed in a car rollover while driving home from Queensland to far west New South Wales was not wearing a seatbelt, and may have been fatigued.