If your area is likely to flood the SES or council could issue an evacuation order. Follow these steps to stay safe. If there's a bushfire warning for your area, follow your bushfire survival plan.

While the health effects of inhaling and consuming microplastics are not yet fully known, we asked a microplastics researcher ...

WA's environmental regulator approves a major hot briquetted iron project that could help boost Australia's iron ore export revenue. But is it as green as it sounds?

Jasveen Sangha, known as the "Ketamine Queen", has agreed to plead guilty to selling the drug that led to Matthew Perry's death. She is the fifth defendant to be charged in the overdose death of the ...

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NSW Police are continuing to hunt for the gunman responsible for shooting a man dead and seriously wounding another, after a ...

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Josh Heins and Manu Bohn believe their tiny home on wheels does not need approval, but their local council does not agree.

Perth is set to beat its long-term rainfall average for each month of winter — the first time it would have happened in nearly three decades — as another severe weather warning is issued.

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Tasmania's new parliament sits for the first time on Tuesday, a month after voters delivered another hung parliament. Premier ...