Footy's back as grassroots rugby league is given the green light to return to the field by July.

To many people, they're known simply as 'mothers' groups' and that can mean new fathers like Jeremy Piert don't feel comfortable going along.

From Ireland's heartland to coastal Victoria, Australian convicts brought with them magic and superstition. Their symbols are still being uncovered today.

Geometrical hexafoil are thought to serve as a sign of protection.

Conservationists are struggling in the fight against many introduced species in the Otways, but they hope a new program will limit the number of feral pigs before they cause too much damage.

Oddball might have been the movie star, but Tula the maremma is the real hero of Middle Island's famed penguin protection program, and she's retiring after almost a decade of service.

Not long ago, Aboriginal people in Cherbourg were ruled by a government-appointed "protector". Now the elders are involved in running the courts.

A Sunshine Coast mother witnesses the moment alleged car jacker Dylan Matthew Hammond was shot by police and run over by a caravan after a 200-kilometre pursuit that ended on the Bruce Highway yesterday.

Doctors are shocked by how quickly this season's flu is striking down the young and healthy. Last year, Amanda Nix was doing Tough Mudder, but a few weeks ago she was struck down with the infection, blacking out in an emergency ward as it took hold.

The Indigenous owners of Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island, are frustrated by delays in their claim for compensation from the Queensland Government.

St Kilda chief executive Matt Finnis says the club has been left heartbroken by the death of former captain Danny Frawley.

An American Staffordshire Terrier that was pepper-sprayed, tasered and shot by police after it attacked a courier, will have its leg amputated. The owner says the courier company was told not to enter the property and came through a locked gate.

A controversial study plays down the risk of heart disease and cancer from eating red meat, infuriating global health professionals.

The whale shark may be the world's largest fish but locating them on the Great Barrier Reef is like "finding a needle in a haystack".

Using a device like a snow cannon to shoot microscopic saltwater droplets into the air, scientists are hoping to reduce heat on the reef and slow the impacts of coral bleaching.

Clark Whelton survived the global flu pandemic in 1957 and is now in his 80s living through the coronavirus pandemic

Radiolab reporter Latif Nasser has explored the plight of his namesake, Abdul Latif Nasser, who has been held in the Guantanamo Bay prison since 2002.

From a whisper to a bang! is a six-part podcast series about war, remembrance and Australian prisoners of war in Germany during the Second World War

With protesters unable to assemble in the streets in Hong Kong due to coronavirus restrictions, some are taking their protests into the virtual world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, a Nintendo Switch game.

A sick prisoner's push for early release in the midst of the COVID pandemic.

What it is about us, all of us, that makes climate change hard to get our heads around and even harder to do something about? We talk to people who understand that climate change is a real danger and people who don’t. And we hear from researchers looking at why we are the way we are.

A 64-year-old woman who allegedly purchased a yacht for her son to flee the country while he was on bail over a multi-million-dollar cocaine-smuggling operation is remanded in custody.

Residents of a Queensland beachside suburb are relieved a decision to bury a dead whale 40 metres from their backyards has been abandoned, but question why they were not consulted before a whale-sized burial plot was excavated.

Parents living in a mining town with one of the country's lowest unemployment rates are turning down jobs because there is no childcare available.

An English tourist has his foot bitten off and his friend suffers serious injuries when they are attacked by a shark while snorkelling in the Whitsundays.

A new brand of militant activists hope to derail the WA Government's plans to build an outer harbour by waging an environmental war similar to the successful campaign to kill off the Roe 8 highway expansion.

The Landgate deal represents a sizeable change in position by WA Labor, a party that spent years fighting tooth and nail against privatisations but just locked in one of the state's biggest-ever deals with the private sector, writes Jacob Kagi.

It is not just Perth feeling the exceptionally early burst of spring warmth, with central parts of Western Australia sizzling in record-breaking heat this past week.

As the Cottesloe community remains split over the future of the Indiana tearooms, just down the road City Beach is reaping the rewards of a multi-million-dollar facelift.

Australia's biggest ever lottery prize, $150 million, is up for grabs on Thursday night, but if you are joining the throngs rushing to get a ticket be warned winning the nine-figure windfall could change your life for better and worse.

When you think of traffic congestion, you probably think of cars bumper-to-bumper on the freeway during weekday peak hour, but there are several hotspots around the city where weekend traffic is even worse.

Remote working means you can work in your pyjamas, avoid peak-hour traffic and pick and choose your hours. But would you miss the office gossip and, even worse, would the boss forget about you?

A second Brownlow Medal leaves Nat Fyfe in rare air among some of the AFL's all-time greats. But guiding the Fremantle Dockers back to the finals and to their first premiership would cement his legacy, writes Clint Thomas.

Perth brothers Ambrose and Xavier Clarke, who had their original murder convictions quashed, are given heavier sentences after being found guilty for the second time for killing a business partner.

The ACT is in the spotlight right now for marijuana law reform. But years ago another Australian state went down a very similar path in loosening the law when it came to recreational cannabis use.

For the first time in history, the mayor of WA's biggest council will be chosen directly by residents, but the campaign has been marred by allegations of criminal damage, sabotage and online abuse.

As WA Premier Mark McGowan proudly announced direct flights from Perth to Shanghai this week, it flew in stark contrast to Scott Morrison's US visit that put several Chinese noses out of joint, writes Eliza Borrello.

Forecasters are predicting more hot weather to come after the city recorded an average maximum temperature 2.6C higher than normal and received less than half its average rainfall for the month.