Boy wakes after Gold Coast chopper crash
Nine-year-old Leon de Silva is awake in hospital two days after he suffered brain trauma in a helicopter collision on the Gold Coast in which four people died.
Nine-year-old Leon de Silva is awake in hospital two days after he suffered brain trauma in a helicopter collision on the Gold Coast in which four people died.
Long-term Fitzroy Crossing resident Dwayne Ben says damage in the flood-ravaged town is extensive as major towns downstream are set to become islands.
An investigation into a helicopter collision that killed four people and injured eight on the Gold Coast this week could take at least 18 months to complete.
A 54-year-old tourist is missing in the waters of Mossman Gorge, in far north Queensland, after being swept downstream.
A race car driver has been killed at Willowbank Raceway west of Brisbane after his vehicle left the track and crashed into a camera tower.
While severe weather conditions have eased in the Northern Territory, authorities say record-breaking floods continue in WA's Fitzroy River catchment.
The expected peaking of floodwaters around the outback NSW township of Menindee has been pushed back as river readings remain steady below a 1976 record.
A rescue mission is underway to pluck workers from a flooded conservation property in the Kimberley after record floods.
Broome and Derby in northern Western Australian are likely to be cut off by a once-in-a-century flood within 12 hours, as inland evacuations continue.
About 3000 people in the town of Derby have been cut off by a once-in-a-century flooding event in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
A five-year-old girl saved her younger brother's life after a crash that killed their parents in country Western Australia.
The Christmas holidays have ended in tragedy for a number of Australians involved in misadventure incidents during the festive period.
Residents in an outback town will spend New Year's Eve worried about flooding as Top End communities return home a week after a rare inundation.
Three family members are dead and the mother of a Queensland rugby league player has been injured after two cars collided in Bonogin in the Gold Coast region.
A teenager has been killed and two other men hospitalised after all three ran into difficulty in rough waters this Christmas.
A pilot and passenger who were travelling in a light plane have been confirmed dead after the aircraft's wreckage was found in the Northern Territory.
Crash investigators are sifting through the wreckage of a kit-built light plane that crashed on Sydney's southern outskirts, killing two men.
South Australian authorities have provided an update to the flooding situation along the Murray River.
A large bird carcass was found in the cockpit of a crop duster involved in a fatal plane crash at a property near Chinchilla, west of Brisbane.
The body of a cruise ship guest who fell overboard in windy sea conditions off the South Australian coast overnight has been found.
The tales of devastation, heartache and lucky escapes from flooded NSW have sparked a national response, as communities look to years of repair and recovery.
A man has died after being mauled by up to three dogs in the yard of a home, south of Brisbane.
A 19-year-old man's body has been found in a NSW Riverina town, four days after he vanished while swimming in floodwaters.
Australia faces a disastrous summer of weather events, with each household footing $1532 for a flood-ravaged year, the Climate Council says.
Aftershocks and heavy rain have hampered the increasingly frantic search for survivors of the Indonesian earthquake as the death toll rises to 271.
The death toll from an earthquake in West Java has risen to over 250, with many children among the casualties because they were at school when the tremor hit.
There are fears a third person has been swept away in NSW floodwaters as the Lachlan River in the inundated town of Forbes, peaks just below the 70-year record.
Police believe they have found the body of a 60-year-old woman missing from the central western NSW town of Eugowra, which has been devastated by flooding.
A missile that killed two people in Poland was a Ukrainian air defence missile, US President Joe Biden has reportedly told allies.
Emergency crews are in the midst of an urgent search for a man and a woman believed to have gone missing during severe flooding in the NSW town of Eugowra.
Grace Rached, a 23-year-old Sydney film production assistant, has been identified as the Australian killed in a deadly Halloween tragedy in South Korea.