Up to 100 fires are burning across NSW as a large swath of the state begins a day of total fire bans.
The Queensland government says the need for more desalination plants can be delayed if the entire southeast Queensland region lowers its water use.
Neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner was working on and off for 27 hours to separate conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna.
Celebrity gardener Peter Cundall has been arrested outside Tasmania's Parliament House in Hobart.
Gift vouchers always seem to spark debate around Christmas - do they show a lack of imagination or are they the ideal practical gift for the hard-to-buy-for?
After a 12-year fight to have its native title rights recognised, an Aboriginal group has succeeded with an application covering more than 10,000 square kilometres of the upper Gascoyne region of Western Australia.
All video and photographs of HMAS Sydney on the seabed off the WA coast are to be presented to the Australian War Memorial.
One month after setting sail from Sydney, teenage adventurer Jessica Watson has almost reached the equator.
A pygmy hippopotamus has been shot dead during a pig hunting expedition in the Northern Territory.
Prostate cancer experts say AFL identity, Sam Newman has raised Aussie men's acceptance of prostate testing.