A young woman asleep in a spa at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre allegedly woke to discover she was being sexually assaulted by a 60-year-old taxi driver, a court has heard.

The move officially upgrades La Niña to an active event, meaning recent changes in ocean temperatures and weather patterns over the Pacific are now likely to remain until at least the end of the year.

A Perth father already serving a life sentence for killing his wife was sentenced to 10 years jail on Tuesday for conning close to $6 million out of his victims.

An Indigenous man who sparked national headlines when a video emerged of him being tasered during a dramatic arrest in inner Sydney has suffered blurred vision as a result of the incident.

The national cabinet will soon consider recommendations to let Australians arriving from low-risk countries quarantine at home instead of in a hotel.

It has been a period in all of our lives we won’t be able to forget, but one we hope to never experience again.

More than 70 academics from top universities including Yale, Oxford and Cambridge have written a protest letter to Monash University, urging the Group of Eight institution to reverse a contentious plan to abolish a music specialisation ranked among the worlds best.

Hordes of people who converged on Sydney's coast at the height of the COVID-19 crisis forced Waverley Council to shut popular stretches of sand to visitors.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has urged Victoria to allow schoolchildren of all ages back into the classroom, citing reports of growing mental health problems.

After days of stonewalling, the Victorian Government has finally admitted that police, cleaners and medical staff working at Melbourne’s “hot” COVID-19 hotels have continued to contract the virus after the quarantine scheme was shut down.