An Adelaide man has been charged with a string of offences after he fell through the roof of a carport while allegedly trying to run away from police overnight. In a separate incident, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at a house in Prospect.

CCTV footage captures the moment a pedestrian is struck by a car, with the alleged driver facing charges of assault and four counts of endangering life.

David Warner belts a ton to power Australia to its fourth-highest Twenty20 score of 2-233, which proves to be more than enough as Sri Lanka falls 134 runs short in the first match of the men's team's international summer.

The Shadow Treasurer is now in a contest with fellow frontbencher Anthony Albanese.

Sacked North Melbourne coach Brad Scott brushes shoulders with commentator David King as he runs out to the three-quarter time huddle. King has been a strident critic of Brad Scott as a coach.

With lines between school and home blurred, parents of students with disabilities are struggling with little or no extra support. Some have started dipping into their limited NDIS funds to get help.

Alan Clarke thought completing a 500km run across some of Australia's roughest terrain would be his biggest challenge. But that all changed when he spotted something in the shallows.

A South Australian man killed his close friend when he landed on top of him during a drunken fight, causing an internal cyst to fatally rupture, a court hears.

A South Australian man has been jailed for killing his best friend at a remote camp site during a drunken fight after falling on him and rupturing an internal cyst.

The family of volunteer firefighter from New Zealand who was killed in a hit-and-run in the NSW Hunter Valley has issued an emotional plea for someone to come forward.

Six months after Murrurundi's water ran out, the community is struggling to survive on extreme, level-six water restrictions, in a grim prediction of the future for other country towns facing their own impending water crisis.

Generations of Australia's prime breeding cows are heading to slaughterhouses as a lack of water and feed sees more producers opt to "cash in and get out".

Running on a wedding day is normally a sign something has gone very wrong but not when you are running together, at a parkrun event.

People on Lord Howe Island are trying to save their slice of paradise from a rat infestation, but a controversial eradication program has divided families and friends on the tiny outpost 600km off the NSW coast.

What drives people to spend their weekends suffering as they attempt to run 50, 100, or even 200 kilometres through the bush and over mountains?

Welcome to Roebuck Plains Station, where traditional owners and Indigenous people are taking back the reins, creating jobs, protecting country and forging a promising future, all while running a profitable and sustainable station.

A 36-year-old man is charged with murder following an alleged hit-and-run attack on two men in Perth's south in the early hours of Easter Sunday.

Australia was built on gold rushes a century ago, but there is a warning it could slip from second to fourth on a list of the world's biggest gold producing nations by 2024.

This wild and rugged corner of north-west Tasmania is bursting with ancient history and dotted with artefacts, but you've probably never heard of it.

DAILY BRIEFING: Man who's been on the run from police for almost two weeks caught, Madeleine Ogilvie takes her new seat in Parliament as an independent.

A man accused of deliberately running over and killing a stranger had post-traumatic stress disorder after an assault nine years earlier, a court has heard.

Residents in the Hobart suburb of Risdon Vale say they are double checking their doors are locked as the search for a prison escapee enters its second day.

DAILY BRIEFING: 31 year-old Josef Barker found not guilty of murder in fatal hit and run, and a woman who lied about attending a university campus at Cradle Mountain so she could travel while on bail is sentenced.

DAILY BRIEFING: Police allege a motorcyclist was doing more than 200km/h, and Tasmania's Basslink interconnector will be back up and running by Monday.

In the town of Miena there are just 100 people and human interaction can be scarce, but Kaylee Hattinger has done her bit to bring life to one of the coldest places in the country.

A water scientist is backing Hamilton farmers' concerns about threats to a local lake from a proposed fish hatchery, including the threat of algal blooms.

In the mid-19th century two teenagers fled the brutal life of a SA whaling station. With the help of local Indigenous tribes they survived walking more than 500km through remote landscape to finally reach freedom.

For residents living in the New South Wales village of Murrurundi in the Upper Hunter Valley, three minute showers and a limit of two loads of laundry a week have become the norm.

Victoria moves to decriminalise public drunkenness on the eve of a coronial inquest into the death of Aboriginal woman Tanya Day, who suffered head injuries in a police cell in 2017.

A police officer who arrested Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day for being drunk in public tells a coronial inquest police were just trying to help her when she was taken into custody.

A judge describes a man who ran down his fiance and mother of four, leaving her for dead after a heated argument, as cowardly and callous.

Jesse Reid reached speeds of up to 200kph before he veered onto the wrong side on the road and crashed into a veteran policeman's motorcycle.

Drunk and high-on-ice driver Jesse Reid is sentenced to 10 years in prison over the 2018 death of policeman Victor Kostiuk, who was taking part in a charity motorbike ride in Victoria.

A dumped Liberal party mayor has opened up on the faction bosses he believes are wrecking the Liberals. Steve Russell was Mayor of Hornsby Council in northern Sydney for four and a half years and was expecting to stay on as Mayor after elections next month. But he'd fallen out with powerbrokers in the party who engineered the recently announced decision to abandon merging smaller councils into bigger, more cost-efficient operations. It appears his successor, the former Federal MP Philip Ruddock, knew Mr Russell's fate before the party wielded the knife.

One of the most original and influential sci-fi movies of all time gets an update. Is it worth the price of admission?

Indigenous objects presented to Hazel Hawke at the the 1988 Barunga Festival are on display for the first time at Parliament House.

Cronulla snaps a five-match losing streak with a 16-14 win over an injury-hit North Queensland to remain in the hunt for the NRL finals.

Gavin Cooper of the Cowboys is tackled by Bulldogs defence during the Round 24 NRL match between the North Queensland Cowboys and the Canterbury Bulldogs at Townsville Stadium, Thursday, August 29, 2019.

After a sharp rise in complaints at a state-run nursing home facility in north Queensland, health officials move to overhaul the nursing home's management.

A five-year-old boy has died in North Queensland after he was hit by a car overnight while riding his bicycle along the footpath with his father.

Eric Ebatarintja escaped from the prison for the second time after removing his electronic monitoring bracelet. Although his sentence had expired, he was being held on an ongoing basis under the Serious Sex Offenders Act because the court deemed him to be at high risk of reoffending.

Life on a mustering crew in northern Australia means travelling to remote stations to bring in cattle from thousands of kilometres of far-flung bushland.

With groundwater levels critically low and the wet season yet to begin, some rural Northern Territory residents fear they may have to pay thousands of dollars to truck in water for their homes.

The largest remote Aboriginal community in Central Australia is rapidly running out of drinking water but it is just one of many communities in the region that have been struggling with finite groundwater supplies for many years.