A man has drowned while swimming at Carlton Beach in southern Tasmania. The man was part of a group of five, among them ...

Emergency services are called to Palmers Island on the state's north coast after a plane with two people on board crashes.

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Two tourists from Perth are dead after they were caught in a rip near Walpole, while a third adult was revived and taken to ...

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Police say 40-year-old Luke Walford was attacked shortly after 4pm. He died at the scene just before 6pm. Keppel Bay Islands ...

Residents in several suburbs around the Tamala Park tip in Perth's north say they want more action taken to prevent a foul ...

A plane carrying 175 passengers and six flight attendants drove off the runway and crashed into a fence at Muan International ...

Australia starting taxing capital gains in 1986, stamping out a whole lot of tax evasion in the process. So why in 1999 did ...

An 18-year-old remains in a critical condition in hospital following a horror day on SA's roads in which two women were ...