Sydney news

A 4.3 metre saltwater crocodile has been caught at Victoria River Downs Station in the Northern Territory.

The University of Wollongong will establish a campus at Liverpool in Sydney's south west, one of the fastest growing and youngest regions in NSW.

A construction worker suffers minor injuries after jumping into the path of a stolen ute in Melbourne's CBD to stop a thief from stealing the company's vehicle.

The Canberra Liberals query the Government's commitment to spend $57 million to duplicate Horse Park Drive in Gungahlin.

Several firefighters are injured by falling bricks and two retirement home residents are taken to hospital as a fire destroys a church in Rockdale.

A Tasmanian coroner will today hand down his findings into what happened to Hobart woman Lucille Butterworth, who disappeared almost 50 years ago.

Almost one in two federal politicians own an investment property, according to an analysis of their registers of interests.

The ACT Supreme Court gains a fifth resident judge in a move aimed at easing case backlogs.

How this reggae musician became one of Australia's first Indigenous doctors and is inspiring the next generation of young Aboriginal students to follow in his footsteps.

Introduced by Aaron Fa'Aoso

Parramatta Eels write to fans ahead of NRL salary cap investigation findings, saying they must be allowed to answer accusations before sanctions are laid.

Federal Labor leader Bill Shorten seeks to appease the union movement by declaring he will personally intervene if the independent umpire cuts penalty rates on Sundays, but stops short of promising to enshrine penalty rates in legislation.

What an extraordinary game of rugby league. It was the kind of match where you sat there watching the action, not realising that you had a broad smile on your face the whole way.

Japanese trading houses Itochu Corp and Mitsui & Co separately bid for a stake in Anglo American's manganese assets in Australia and South Africa as the miner shrinks its business to weather the commodity-price rout, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Collingwood may look to stretch a Carlton defence next week that will be missing young star Jacob Weitering.

The producers of The Voice did well to focus on nerves, but less so with a clumsy theme of joke-bullying Keating. Sure it was lighthearted and Keating has the ego to bounce back. But with so many youngsters watching was it wise to give would-be bullies ideas?

In a trash-talking spray, mining boss skites about putting his workers on buses.

Australia's debt pile will stop growing within the next five or six years and then begin to shrink as the government works to balance the budget, according to Treasurer Scott Morrison.

When Turia Pitt was in hospital recuperating from burns to 65 per cent of her body she told her family she wanted to do an ironman one day, despite being told she would never run again.

Google is finally doing something about its tax structure.

Adelaide United put an end to a run of disappointment in title games with victory over the Wanderers, but the wait goes on for Western Sydney.

Natalie Sims was told not to send her son Daniel to Fitzroy Primary.

Richmond's disastrous start to the season has been compounded after skipper Trent Cotchin fractured a cheekbone against Port Adelaide and will miss the next fortnight.

Relying on visuals to sell your business? Look no further than Instagram.

Round six votes for the Age Footballer of the Year award for the 2016 premiership season.

"People think you're crazy for giving up the safety of a $150K job."

A promising young Australian goalkeeper has died in hospital after he was struck by lightning during a training session in Malaysia last month.  

Expect plenty of crying poor and other nonsense in the budget.

Scientist Sir David Mackay cut the "twaddle" about climate change

Canberra powerhouse too strong for Woden-Weston at Deakin Stadium.

Queensland voters back the LNP over Labor and talk of leadership tension was "rumour and speculation", the party's deputy leader said Sunday.

Horse riders around the country have paid their respects to a young Victorian woman killed while competing at a major equestrian event.

Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham will take on player contract negotiations after the exit of the club's CEO.

Fair-haired Egyptian mummies were natural blondes, according to a Melbourne researcher who has blown open the urban myth surrounding the appearance of some of the youngest mummified Egyptians.

The ACT Brumbies will carry a defiant attitude into their next two games.

​Horace Ward was his high school valedictorian, graduated with honors from Morehouse College in Atlanta in only three years and earned a master's degree from Atlanta University.

Leading trainer John Sadler believes animal lobbyists and the RSPCA are barking up the wrong tree with their focus on opposing jumps racing.

Senior arts industry figures fear that Tuesday's federal budget may bring even worse news for a sector in desperate need of support.

On a weekend when big questions were asked of some premiership favourites, West Coast did not escape scrutiny, despite recording a 10-goal win on Sunday.

A severe storm warning for the ACT has been cancelled as high winds, caused by a cold front moving through southeastern NSW, ease.

The 13-year wait for Adelaide United to become A-League champions is over after the Reds claimed a convincing 3-1 win over the Western Sydney Wanderers - who bowed to their third grand final defeat in four seasons.

Essendon coach John Worsfold is confident that his makeshift side will be playing as a much more cohesive unit by the end of the season.

The model for the gold ring that Jewish workers gave World War II hero Oskar Schindler has been donated to Melbourne's Jewish Holocaust Centre.

Carlton had an incredible capacity to make the easy look difficult, according to coach Bendon Bolton

The Magpies have five girls in the NSW-ACT under-18 side going to nationals and two in the senior side to play South Australia.

When Turia Pitt was in hospital recuperating from burns to 65 per cent of her body she told her family she wanted to do an ironman one day, despite being told she would never run again.

Foxtel will show some delayed EPL games as part of its fightback against Optus.

The Labor Government is targeting the "wrong end of the evening" with drinking precinct legislation, with Griffith University research proving drinkers consume alcohol before they go out, not while they are in late night drink precincts.

Its taken seven long years since the last Grand Final defeat, and nine since its Grand Final humiliation, but finally Adelaide United has wrestled the monkey of its back.

Supplies of the drug Bactropan, which is commonly used to treat 'school sores', have been depleted in Sydney, with full restocking not expected until the end of this year.