Australia

SYDNEY – Australia's longer and hotter bushfire seasons are endangering more residential areas, as urban sprawl encroaches on the bush. Despite present cooler weather conditions, there are presently 100 fires ...

The New South Wales Parliament is being recalled next week to pass a package of tough new laws ...

Greg Hutchings and his four-year-old daughter Eeva Doredndahl have gone missing in Pottsville, New South Wales. Hutchings, 25, ...

Daniel Christie of Australia is dead after spending over a week on life support following getting punched on ...

Brian Pink, the current Australian statistician, will retire this month. Pink said he will leave the Australian Bureau ...

Cyclone Christine swept in from the Indian Ocean, hitting Australia's Pilbara region in the north-west, the world's largest ...

Wet and Wild Sydney has postponed its New Year's Eve party, giving the 10,000 or so people who ...

Cyclone Christine, possibly the last storm of 2013, is hitting northwest Australia hard, bringing torrential rain and winds ...

Nick Eade, a missing father, was found dead on Sydney's Shelly Beach more than a month after he ...

A dead body has been found in the search for Ayman Ksebe, a missing 5-year-old who was swept out ...

Abdula Ganiji has been identified by police as the man who threatened to blow up the New South ...

The New South Wales Parliament House in Sydney, Australia is on lockdown on Friday and a bomb squad ...

Nick Eade, a television producer in Sydney, Australia, is still missing, and his family has now come forward ...

The Australian government is so concerned about shark attacks on humans that it plans to start baiting and ...

Chinese mining company Yanzhou will now be able to have 100 per cent control over Australian coal mine ...

Christmas lights were reportedly banned in Cardwell in Australia because of complaints from Muslim residents but the story ...

SYDNEY — New South Wales public school teachers have endorsed a new wage agreement that awards the best ...

SYDNEY — Bikie clubs are preparing to launch a challenge in the High Court against Queensland’s anti-gang laws, ...

The Australian economy remained sluggish in the September quarter according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Holden and Toyota are vital to the future of Australia’s car industry, the Australian Productivity Commission has heard, ...

MELBOURNE—Burmese activist, Aung San Suu Kyi, has acknowledged the difficulties her country faces in embracing democracy but said ...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has released two reports criticising the harsh living conditions for asylum seekers ...

Four states that struck deals with Labor before the election—New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

The Australian team of Jason Day and Adam Scott took out the prestigious 2013 ISPS Handa World Cup ...

Lisa Harnum was murdered by her fiance Simon Gittany, a court in Sydney, Australia found. Harnum, a ballerina, ...

Thanks to some Melbourne miracle, the sun stayed out all day and truly worked its magic on the ...

Dave Styles, a senior tiger handler, has been identified as the man who got mauled by a tiger ...