Two dangerous fires near Tenterfield and Armidale are downgraded as firefighters keep properties out of danger, but the dwindling water supply and expected strong winds will make today challenging.

Beauty services are closed, but hairdressers will still operate. Personal training can go ahead, but with no more than 10 people, outdoors, and observing physical distancing rules. You may be confused about the latest announcement on social gatherings. Let us explain.

Some veterinarians in Tasmania are sceptical about suggestions animal ventilators could be used on humans during the coronavirus pandemic, with some warning making them fit for purpose may be too expensive.

Tasmanian companies keen to keep staff employed are adapting and shifting their business focus by making face shields, hand sanitiser and other products in high demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A teenager who suffered a punctured lung when she was stabbed by a classmate at Renmark High School tells the District Court they are still best friends and she will continue to support her as she receives treatment for schizophrenia.

The last few players at this small town's croquet club are forced to close the door after 91 years but the sport isn't finished just yet.

Six regional aged care facilities in South Australia are failing to meet standards, a State Estimates committee hears, with three based in the same region.

Australia takes control of the Olympic football qualifier against Vietnam, as the Matildas cruise to a 5-0 win that puts them on the verge of qualification for Tokyo.

Australia's passage to the women's football tournament at the Tokyo Olympics was confirmed with an unconvincing second-leg win over Vietnam.

The Matildas have defeated Vietnam 2-1 and qualify to play in the Women's soccer tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.

Victoria's one-stop shop for all things to do with fines has been crippled by serious IT issues. So what's behind the multi-million-dollar problem, and what does it mean for people facing a payment deadline?

Shooting to kill, commandeering trucks and spike strips are just some powers of intervention police officers have been told they must use if necessary to stop a hostile vehicle attack.

After Victorian police were found to have falsified hundreds of thousands of breath tests last year, the state's anti-corruption body warns there's a risk officers could still be conducting fake tests because of "meaningless and unachievable" targets.

Meredith Ireland has spent the last six years studying and working in the finance sector, but recently she has decided to put more time into her passion, textiles and weaving.

More overnight falls across the New England North West

Three months after the Hunter's 'super storm' and flood, a fifth generation Dungog farmer reflects on how the weather event has impacted the town's agricultural sector.

Merryn Apma is an Aboriginal artist who has been a major force in Aboriginal issues since the famous Long Walk led by former AFL footballer Michael Long from Melbourne to Canberra in 2004. She's made the move to Tilba to return to art practise and to open a gallery for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal artists. She brings a powerful creativity and sense of spirit to a welcoming community.

Every year at the start of spring the streets of Port Pirie are filled with the colour, sounds and sights of a festival with its roots in a medieval Italian fishing community.

Alison Whitehead ran up and down a local hill until she reached the equivalent elevation of Mount Everest's peak

Burketown, a town in north-west Queensland, can be cut off from the world for months at a time during the wet season, but it's got better internet than in Sydney according to a textile designer.

Australian researchers find a new species of pterosaur in outback Queensland. The apex aerial predator had a 4-metre wingspan and walked on all four limbs when on land.

Experts say the landmark High Court 'Crocodile case', which granted Indigenous Australians the right to fish and hunt for traditional foods, is still significant 20 years later.

Over the course of his life, Maurice Cole, a legend of the surfing world, has absorbed damage, inflicted it and come face-to-face with death more than once. Now he is helping his son try and reverse the damage his generation has done.

A new memorial planned for the 14 victims of the Appin mine disaster will bring little comfort to the families still shattered by the explosion of 1979.

Winds of up to 90 kilometres per hour leave a trail of destruction across Sydney, with rescue crews pushed to their limits and warnings still in place for southern parts of NSW.

The man accused of the stabbing murder of Adelaide mother-of-two Suzanne Poll is denied bail after the prosecution revealed new details about the case against him.

St Kilda's pursuit of Fremantle's Bradley Hill is set to go down to the last day of the AFL trade period, but Dougal Howard and Paddy Ryder are on their way to the Saints from Port Adelaide.

Louise Murphy spends every day caring for her elderly mother, but says no-one is helping her care for herself. She says her carers' fatigue is compounded by the fact that respite care is expensive, and her fears about putting her mother into aged care.

The family of Peter Verrall, who died when the boat he was fishing in capsized in rough seas in South Australia, praises his close friend for staying with him "until the end".

The US retail phenomenon that prompts bargain-hungry shoppers to stampede through stores is coming to South Australia for the first time, with Adelaide traders allowed to open until midnight on November 29.

The fiance of a 27-year-old man killed in one of Australia's worst mining disasters is still heartbroken, saying the "pain is still there" on the 30th anniversary of his death.

While war veterans around the country are disappointed Anzac Day services have taken a different form, one woman in Melbourne is grateful for a connection.

If you thought there were a lot more people around lately, you're not wrong. More and more people are out on the streets in Melbourne, anticipating an easing of coronavirus restrictions once the State of Emergency ends on May 11.

With their kids peering over the neighbour's fence, a Melbourne couple forges ahead with wedding plans amid coronavirus restrictions.

A group of textile artists in Newcastle has thrown down a challenge to artists around Australia to create hand-made flowers to raise funds for ovarian cancer research.

A man pleads guilty to burning another man alive after dousing him with petrol on a deserted road south of Newcastle last year.

Welcome to fire spotting the job where you get to look into the distance and get paid for it.

Bound by tradition but using honey from stingless bees and Australian botanicals proves to be more than just a silver lining for a NSW distiller.

Ross Miller has no intention of putting the rod into the rack. Instead, he is building another prawn trawler as a legacy to his son.

A remote WA distillery has teamed up with a brewery 4,000 kilometres away to create the state's first corn beer, direct from paddock to keg.

Now that Western Australia's moratorium on fracking has been lifted, can gas from the Kimberley prove that it is economically viable?

A few years ago Bill Huxtable was given three months to live, now his biggest concern is the three-hour round trip to the nearest hospital for regular, routine surgeries.

There is no sign of retirement for 91-year-old Rex Egerton-Warburton who still enjoys an active farming career despite being in the saleyards since he was five.

DAILY BRIEFING: Fresh from walking away from his horror crash in Italy, race driver Alex Peroni is all smiles in hospital, as police renew their call for help to find a thief.

A senior member of the Fertility Society of Australia has used a speech at the opening of the society's conference to criticise researchers for making negative comments about the IVF industry in the media.

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.