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Digging has started under the new Grange Road bridge as part of Adelaide's South Road upgrade, and work is also getting underway on a new road bridge which will take Torrens Road traffic over the four-kilometre non-stop section of South Road.

A man has been charged with dangerous driving causing death after cyclist Ann Formaz-Preston was hit and killed in Pymble in Sydney's north.

Canberrans may be left dreaming of a white Christmas on Sunday with the mercury set to hit 31 degrees.

English soccer's holy week is looked on with envy and admiration worldwide. Except, perhaps, for those inside it.

A man is held captive and tortured in Logan, south of Brisbane, after visiting a house to buy a motorbike, police say.

Melbourne United and Brisbane Bullets have both suffered injuries and both remain in the NBL finals race but signs are pointing to only one of them making the top four, hence the importance of their Boxing Day clash.

It's the one thing Malcolm Turnbull and Bill Shorten can wholeheartedly agree on.

It is a time of year to relax with family, support charities that deliver toys and food for the less fortunate, and, for some, a celebration of something other than Christmas.

A three-year-old girl dies in Sydney's Westmead Hospital after being found unresponsive in a car outside her Sydney family home on Saturday evening, and police are treating it as suspicious.

Sam Allardyce has admitted losing the England job was one of the "darkest moments" of his career.

What would Boxing Day be without the traditional Test match at the MCG? Well, you don't have to go back very far to find out.

A stabbing attack has left a man with a severed artery and a woman with a damaged tendon.

Two men have been charged after a man was held captive for 20 hours and tortured at a Logan residence.

Clinton Pryor is attempting to do something no other person has done beforewalk across the Australian continent in protest against the forced closures of Indigenous communities.

Homicide detectives in Victoria are investigating a fatal stabbing in Bendigo on Saturday night.

A 33-year-old woman has been charged with murder over the death of a man at a Kangaroo Flat home on Christmas Eve.

While it is tempting to include pets in family Christmas celebrations, feeding a pet the wrong foodsuch as ham bones or cakecan cause more harm than good, a Perth animal hospital warns.

Starr Wars actress Carrie Fisher was in a critical condition on Friday after suffering a "cardiac episode" during a flight from London to Los Angeles, according to emergency officials.

More than a dozen people have been wounded in a grenade explosion outside a Catholic church during a Christmas Eve mass on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines.

Queen guitarist Brian May has led tributes to fellow rock star Rick Parfitt, who has died at the age of 68.

The Queen's granddaughter Zara Tindall and her husband Mike have lost their baby, a spokeswoman for the couple says.

A large crowd of South Koreans took to the streets of Seoul on Saturday for the ninth weekend in a row to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye

The Sudanese refugee who died after falling ill on Manus Island had been turned away from the detention centre's medical provider amid accusations he was pretending to be sick, a fellow detainee alleges.

The Sudanese refugee who died after falling ill on Manus Island had been turned away from the detention centre's medical provider amid accusations he was pretending to be sick, a fellow detainee alleges.

Police are investigating the death of a three-year-old girl in Sydney's north-west after she was found unresponsive on Thursday afternoon.

A man and a woman have been arrested and allegedly stolen property, including six cars, seized in Strathmore in the city's north on Saturday.

Worshippers have gathered in large numbers at St Paul's Cathedral for their annual Christmas Eve carol service, despite news terrorists were planning a terror attack on the Melbourne icon.

A woman has died after the sedan she was driving left the road and rolled in the NSW Upper Hunter region, becoming the state's first road fatality of Christmas period.

Western Australia's Christmas spending is not keeping up with increases seen across the country but is holding steady despite tough economic times, according to the retail industry.

Last Christmas, Leicester City was halfway to a miracle, perched atop the Premier League standings, but they head into this festive season in a more familiar place – three points above the relegation zone with their fans left wondering where the magic has gone.

Former NBA and European import centre Josh Boone will suit up for Melbourne United against Brisbane Bullets at Hisense Arena on Boxing Day

A grass fire is heading towards houses in Melbourne's outer north-west id

Perth's bike Santa, Jeremy Devereux, is an exhausted man.

The Immigration Department says a Sudanese refugee has died in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital after a fall and seizure inside the Manus Island detention centre.

Two young skatersone an Australian with Indigenous heritage and the other a Russianare charging towards the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Two young skatersone an Australian with Indigenous heritage and the other a Russianare charging towards the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Police are investigating after three "highly distressed" kittens were found in a zipped up leather bag dangling from a 4WD in northern NSW.

A Sudanese asylum seeker from the Manus Island detention centre is being treated in the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, with the Refugee Action Coalition saying the 27-year-old man suffered head injuries and is in a critical condition.

A woman jumps into a Northern Territory waterway to rescue her dog from a one-metre crocodile, in a move police say is "very brave" but not recommended.

Australia opener David Warner is trusting his skill to get him out of a form slump at Test level ahead of the Boxing Day showdown with Pakistan.

Hot and windy conditions forecast for Victoria in the coming days will create a serious risk of grass and bushfires, the state's Emergency Management Commissioner says.

GWS recruit Amanda Farrugia hopes to become a role model for young Australians when the first season of the AFL Women's league kicks off in 2017.

Storm damage to electricity infrastructure on South Australia's west coast is repaired after some locals were left without any supply for more than a day.

Forensic police scour a property, south of Perth, which is believed to have once been owned by the parents of Bradley Robert Edwards, charged on Friday over two murders in Claremont in the 1990s.

A man is found severely dehydrated more than 24 hours after a fatal crash east of Balladonia in the Goldfields-Esperance region.

A 41-year-old Canberra man is remanded in custody after allegedly attempting to steal metal fittings for scrap from AFP buildings in Weston to fund his ice addiction.

With less than 24 hours to prepare for the big day, Canberrans make their last minute dash to the territory's markets to pick up all their Christmas day essentials.

Sunday marks a year since fires ripped through Wye River and Separation Creek, destroying 116 homes. For some the area will never be the same and only a handful of affected landowners are back in rebuilt homes for Christmas.

Silkworm cocoons may hold the key to preventing millions of people from going blind around the world, with researchers using the silk casings to make implants for those with Age-related Macular Degeneration.

A land and air search is underway for a man who it is believed wandered into the bush after a fatal crash east of Balladonia in the Goldfields-Esperance region.