Sydney news

He may not be old enough to hold a driver's licence, but teenager Calan Williams is already creating a stir in the world of motorsport, dominating the Australian Formula Three Premier Series and being offered a sought-after European contract.

Wayward kicking has left a number of teams losing games they would otherwise win during the AFL season this year, and one kicking specialist says it's time to go back to basics.

A man is arrested and charged with murder after the fatal stabbing of another man at Tungkillo, north east of Adelaide.

There has been no hard proof of the night parrot in South Australiauntil nowaccording to wildlife researchers.

Curious Sydney investigates the people who made the "absolutely visionary" decision to create Sydney's unique Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.

Accolade Wines cites market conditions and a consumer preference for bottled wine as part of its decision to make 35 redundancies in SA's Riverland region.

Wollongong suicide survivor Lauren Darlington uses R U OK? Day to share her story of finding light at the end of a dark and confusing tunnel.

Moreland City Council votes to join neighbours Yarra and Darebin in dropping Australia Day celebrations, including all references to the day on January 26.

While there have been problems with the delivery of surgical equipment to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, a senior surgeon denies social media claims it has not been properly sterilised.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce discusses energy policy and a clean energy target.

After raising concerns about the quality of care at Opal Aged Care, residents and their families are now questioning the internal culture of one of the countries biggest nursing home chains.

The godson of former prime minister Kevin Rudd is allegedly assaulted in Brisbane by a man who was tearing down rainbow flags put up in support of same-sex marriage.

As many as four of Australia's most traditionally-minded electorates may be ignored by their MPs in a same-sex marriage vote in Parliament, despite the results of the postal survey.

Firefighters battle to control several blazes on a hot and windy day in NSW, with schools evacuated, homes threatened and former PM Tony Abbott lending a hand.

Tasmanian authorities seize more than 150 alleged Aboriginal artefacts being offered for sale online from Sydney.

As the car industry grinds to a halt, one automotive supplier is focusing on supplying the wine industry with a solution to a longstanding and costly problem replacing arsenic-treated wooden posts with metal ones.

Former senior Dancesport official sentenced to jail over child grooming but plans to appeal.

The nerves are there, but so is the confidence for Penrith's young brigade as they get set for a big semi-final clash with the Broncos.

The release of a notorious child sex offender sparks a heated row in Parliament, with the Opposition claiming people in Perth will be living in fear, but the Attorney-General says he cannot change the court's decision.

Schoolgirl Jayde Kendall may have died after consensual sex with the accused went "horribly wrong", a Supreme Court murder trial hears in Brisbane, as the jury retires to consider its verdict.

The daughter of infamous Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn, who was murdered in 1975, tells an inquest she did not make some of the comments which appear in police statements from the time.

The CFMEU and union officials are set to pay in excess of $2 million in penalties over unlawful industrial action in 2014 at the Barangaroo construction site in Sydney.

The Geelong Magistrates Court has heard a man accused of killing his infant son, was violent towards his pregnant partner and did not want to have children.

Firefighters battle to control several blazes on a hot and windy day in NSW, with schools evacuated, homes threatened and former PM Tony Abbott lending a hand.

Bathurst Hospital management agrees to investigate claims of bullying after about 50 workers walk off the job.

A former CFA board member who was dumped by Victorian Deputy Premier James Merlino, is challenging him for the seat of Monbulk.

While RSLs around the country are going out of business, the Darwin branch is alive and well 100 years after it first opened its doors in the shadow of World War I.

West Coast captain Shannon Hurn knows history is not on his team's side heading into Saturday's AFL semi-final against Greater Western Sydney, with the Eagles facing an unprecedented four-week travel plan.

With high-risk fire conditions on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, how does the state's major forest grower spot, manage, and respond to fires in fuel-filled environment?

Melburnians will be able to experience William Shakespeare's plays in the world's first full-scale temporary working replica of one of the greatest theatres in history.

An 18-year-old man pleads guilty to causing death by dangerous driving over a hit-and-run crash at Parafield last month which killed Adelaide mother Lucy Paveley.

A group of vets against the live export trade allege poor practices and a lack of bedding were to blame for a high mortality rate on a voyage from Townsville to Vietnam.

Police use DNA testing to link a vicious bashing with a cricket bat in Martin Place 10 years ago to a man who admitted vandalising a police memorial.

One of Australia's largest irrigated and dryland cropping operations is listed for sale, with Norman Farming liquidating the Kalanga and Mobandilla properties in southern Queensland.

The national winter crop harvest will be 40 per cent lower than last year, according to the latest ABARES quarterly Crop Report.

Lawyers for Crown Casino reject claims the company has engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct through the use of "rigged" poker machines.

Rural doctors are warning they are unprepared to prescribe medicinal cannabis, despite patients requesting access to the controversial drug.

It may seem at first like an unlikely source, but Adelaide's oldest cemetery has released its very own olive oil harvested from trees growing on its property.

Students at Federation University's Churchill campus in Gippsland are concerned teacher shortages have led to on-campus courses being delivered online.

Coal mining near Wollongong is resulting in major surface cracking and bulging, which puts Sydney's drinking water catchments under threat, reports kept under wraps by the State Government reveal.

The boss of one of Australia's biggest nursing home chains told a 94-year-old resident she had to leave if she continued "denigrating" staffa meeting the woman's daughter says left her mum scared and "totally shattered".

Corrupt former Labor minister Eddie Obeid's appeal against his conviction for misconduct in public office fails and he will have to serve out his minimum three-year jail term.

Retired pearl diver Ahmat Bin Fadal remembers vividly the moment he almost died underwater 50 years ago.

Moves to widen two sections of Perth's Mitchell Freeway are indefinitely shelved after WA budget cuts, prompting concerns over ongoing traffic congestion in the northern suburbs.

Bauer Media is ordered to pay Rebel Wilson more than $4.5 million for defaming her in a series of magazine stories, with a judge saying the publisher knew the articles were defamatory but "did not care".

An emergency warning is issued for an out-of-control bushfire at Richmond Vale, near Cessnock, with the NSW RFS alerting residents that properties are under threat.

The Adelaide City Council's plans for a $5.5 million east-west city bikeway prompt criticism from some traders and councillors after a series of recent bikeway controversies.

Ben and James Cullen can laugh about it now, but adrenaline was running high after a humpback whale breached just metres from their fishing boat off the Queensland coast.

Lions, elephants and marsupials will roam free at a new zoo in Blacktown, in Sydney's west, with NSW Planning approval granted despite community concerns.

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