Pregnant woman and husband die in light plane crash
Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators are travelling to the site where a light plane crashed, killing two people in north Queensland.
Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators are travelling to the site where a light plane crashed, killing two people in north Queensland.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's Joint Rescue Coordination Centre is leading the search mission for a small plane missing in central Queensland.
A popular Brisbane hiking spot has been identified as an area of interest as the search for a missing 78-year-old woman continues.
Six passengers from a luxury yacht on its way from Darwin to Townsville have been rescued after becoming stranded in the sea near Indonesia.
Australian crews sent to help in the Turkey earthquake recovery effort are returning after helping locals to pull bodies from the rubble.
Five more people have been pulled alive from collapsed building rubble in Turkey more than a week after a deadly earthquake rocked parts of Turkey and Syria.
A 17-year-old girl has been found alive in rubble over 10 days after a massive earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria and left over 42,000 people dead.
The close-knit Queensland community of Cloncurry is mourning the deaths of two miners killed in an incident 125 metres underground.
As the focus turns to helping the millions left homeless from Turkey and Syria's earthquake, two more people have been pulled alive after 11 days in the rubble.
More people including a child have been rescued alive under rubble in Turkey, 11 days after an earthquake that killed more than 45,000 people.
Rescue and recovery will go on until everyone is pulled from the rubble, says Turkey's president, who's vowed to repair all of the quake-ravaged country.
Rescuers are still pulling people from the rubble a week after two devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria as the death toll rises to more than 35,000.
The death toll from the twin earthquakes that devastated Turkey and Syria has risen to more than 28,000, but the United Nations warns the number may double.
A boy and a man have been pulled from the rubble almost 200 hours after the devastating quake in Turkey, but hopes are fading about finding many more survivors.
The combined death toll from the Turkey-Syria earthquake has passed 41,000, but search and rescue teams are beginning to pack up.
The death toll of two earthquakes that have devastated southeastern Turkey and northern Syria has risen to more than 33,000.
A man is in hospital with multiple injuries after crashing his hang glider in Queensland's Sunshine Coast hinterland.
Three women are being treated in hospital after they were found clinging to a tree in floodwater in north Queensland.
An off-duty NSW police officer has drowned in a rip after saving his 14-year-old son who got stuck in the current at an unpatrolled beach on the south coast.
A yacht has been rescued by water police off the NSW north coast after being stranded in extreme conditions.
Search efforts for three fishermen who failed to return in waters off far north Queensland will be scaled back.
Hundreds of people have people have been rescued as heavy rain brings flooding to NSW where residents have been warned to avoid travel as the deluge persists.
Two sailors have been rescued off the NSW South Coast after spending almost 15 hours in the water when their yacht capsized on Saturday morning.
A man has died and a number of passengers have been injured in a tour bus crash about 125km west of Alice Springs in central Australia.
A Royal Life Saving study has highlighted drowning risks for older people in Australia, with one-fifth of deaths attributable to an unexpected fall into water.
A tourist boat with 28 people on board has run into trouble off Western Australia's Kimberley Coast with more than 20 believed injured.
A surrender appears to have marked the end of the battle of Mariupol, where Ukraine believes tens of thousands of people were killed by Russian forces.
The Queensland Department of Environment and Science is investigating a freshwater crocodile attack on a man in the state's remote northwest.
A man has been rescued from floodwaters and emergency services have had almost 40 calls for help as unseasonally heavy rain hits northern Queensland.
The courage and sacrifice of fire and emergency personnel who have died in the line of duty will be commemorated at a national memorial service in Canberra.
The upturned boat of a man missing in waters off Townsville since Saturday has been found hundreds of kilometres away northeast of Cairns.