Parts of Australia to soar over 50 degrees this weekend
It's possible Australia's hottest ever temperature will be felt - but it's unlikely to be officially recorded.
Lara Pearce is a 9News.com.au senior producer based in Sydney.
It's possible Australia's hottest ever temperature will be felt - but it's unlikely to be officially recorded.
Arctic sea ice broke up earlier than ever in 2023, slashing weeks off the apex predator's crucial hunting season.
Fairy bread, hot chips and ice cream should be taken off the menu at South Australian school canteens, according to new healthy eating guidelines.
With rents up more than $100 a week in the last year and vacancies at record lows, more and more people have nowhere to go.
'We are determined not to let people drive around sowing division.'
The patients are believed to have developed the progressive disease due to a growth hormone treatment they had as children.
Larger, younger and increasingly from overseas - that's what ABS data shows about Australia's population in 2024.
A dip in Sydney petrol prices is set to end prematurely thanks to increased demand as residents travel over the long weekend.
In one capital city, a public education for one child will set their parents back a six-figure sum.
If you bought a ticket for a cancelled Qantas flight on these dates, the ACCC wants to hear from you.
Advances in DNA forensics technology have lead to the arrest of a man who allegedly raped a woman in a Jurien Bay hotel bathroom almost a decade ago.
A Queensland woman has been airlifted to Toowoomba Hospital after being bitten by a highly venomous snake while asleep in her bed.
A Melbourne tobacco store has been rammed and then set alight in the second targeted attack by arsonists in as many days.
Gymgoers witnessed the alleged firebombing around 4am and called Triple Zero.
The former First Lady confirmed the news in a tribute posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
Australian researchers have helped solve a long-standing scientific mystery surrounding the world's largest-ever primate more than 200,000 years after it became extinct.
Tens of thousands of Australians are set to receive hundreds in compensation from Airbnb following the court ruling.
For 10-year-old Etienne, schoolwork can be a struggle, but the piano is his 'happy place'. Now, he may have to stop lessons.
Australian food company Primo Foods will fork out $150,000 after thousands of litres of wastewater from its Western Sydney processing plant allegedly polluted a nearby river.
The Aussie billionaire says compensation claims are 'out of control' and it would be 'a tragedy' for a CEO to roll over last week's outage.
The heater remotes have button batteries which aren't secured, posing a risk to young children.
Police are treating the stabbing death of a 65-year-old woman inside her Canberra home yesterday as murder.
A cyclist has died in a collision with a ute just outside Point Pirie, 230 kilometres north-west of Adelaide.
In a bizarre confluence of weather events, much of Australia's east coast is being told to brace for dangerous thunderstorms at the same time as Sydney faces an extreme fire threat.
Get ready for more frequent heatwaves and bushfires, but fewer cyclones - that's the message from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) in its newly released long-range forecast.
The first Australian case of a 'highly mutated' COVID-19 variant colloquially known as 'Pirola' has been detected in Western Australia.
Police are appealing for the public's help to locate an 11-year-old girl missing for two days south of Perth.
The albino kangaroo is thriving at a South Australian wildlife sanctuary.
Australia's population has hit 26.5 million people thanks to a post-COVID-19 pandemic migration boom, new data from ABS shows.
As Aussies continue to find more ways to tighten their purse strings amid the cost of living crunch, two of Australia's biggest rewards schemes are uniting to offer extra savings.
La Niña's three-year reign over our weather is over, but now farmers are warning of a new threat.
Seventeen people have been caught up in a crash involving a mini bus in Queensland's Scenic Rim region this morning.
A 18-year-old will front court today charged over a shooting in Wetherill Park last Friday that landed him in hospital.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has promised he will hold a second referendum on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians if next month's Voice to Parliament vote is defeated and his party is elected.
Police are appealing for help to find a missing 90-year-old with dementia after he disappeared from a western Sydney nursing home at 4.30am today.
Viewing spots that charged up to $520 last year will now be free to everyone, as Chris Minns makes good on a key election pledge.
An eight-year-old boy was hospitalised after he pricked himself on a used needle hidden inside toilet paper on the NSW Mid North Coast.
A new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey shows sexual harassment remains alarmingly prevalent in Australia, despite a slight drop in recent years.
Domino's Pizza has announced plans to cut around 200 jobs in Australia and overseas as the franchiser's profits plunge and pizza sales dropped.
A WA man has been charged for allegedly exposing himself and performing obscene acts - including in front of young girls.
Kylee Enwright was relearning to walk and talk when she unexpectedly suffered a second catastrophic brain bleed.
Football and music fans are being warned of potential chaos on Sydney roads on Wednesday night as the Matildas face England in their first-ever FIFA Women's World Cup finals.
A koala has caused quite a stir when it paid an Adelaide Hills bottle shop an unexpected visit, strolling the store's aisles earlier this week.
As Spotify joins other streaming giants in increasing its monthly subscription fees, the amount Australians are forking out for on-demand viewing is continuing to rise.
Australians struggling to pay electricity bills could be in for years more pain, with costs not expected to stabilise until as late as 2030.
The notes have a paper texture and the security window has visible defects, having been glued on.
Sydney's western fringe has traditionally been the stalwart choice for first home buyers looking to get on the property ladder, but some new postcodes have entered the top ten - and they're a lot closer to the CBD.
As millions of Australians brace for a sharp jump in their power bills from today, there's one solution experts say is a 'no-brainer' for many.
A long-awaited investigation has today been handed down on the conduct of the former NSW premier, with serious findings against her.
One in three products containing button batteries sold in Australia aren't meeting mandatory safety standards, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has found.