A missing 14-year-old autistic boy with autism has spent a night alone in bushland with temperatures dropping to 13 degrees, as authorities grapple with how to allow locals to help in the search amid COVID-19 restrictions.

Efforts to rescue 270 pilot whales stranded on the West Coast has been "reasonably successful" with more than 25 guided out to sea and one third believed to have died. Parks and Wildlife Regional Manager Nic Deka said the use of an infrared camera on Wednesday morning would provide more …

Key Victorian crossbenchers have signalled that they will reject Premier Daniel Andrews’s hardline new bill designed to make it easier to detain people during the pandemic, as an eminent group of retired judges and QCs called on state parliament to …

Military reinforcements at Queensland’s borders will soon be pulled from checkpoints as the state prepares to reopen to northern NSW.

Australia has signed onto a global coronavirus agreement in the hope of gaining early access to dozens of potential vaccines. The deal guarantees Australia

Australia's Ambassador to Vietnam, Robyn Mudie, will have an important meeting in coming weeks with Communist Party officials in Hanoi, Vietnam, in the hope that religious liberty would be taken seriously. The Vietnamese Church is active in Vietnam …

If a suspicious fire on the eleventh floor of a new apartment building in Port Melbourne wasn’t enough to raise a few eyebrows, a number of smaller basement fires were.

Eddie McGuire is the master of spin — and his defence over a controversial nightclub visit was laughable in all the right ways.

The grim record comes as the US reached a sobering milestone and the British PM warned of a "dangerous turning point".

Kobe Bryant's widow Vanessa Bryant filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming deputies shared unauthorised photos of the crash.