Johnny Depp makes a good vampire, but there really is no life in this lavish laugh-fest from Tim Burton.

Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green, Helena Bonham-Carter

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

Thesouth-westVictoriantowns ofTimboonandPortCampbell are18km apart,butthe tragic deaths of three local men within months of each other havefurther tightened the communities bonds.

Almost two years after millions of microplastics spilled onto pristine beaches in Victoria and sparked an emergency response from authorities, the plastic's origin remains a mystery.

Every year, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters, or mutton birds, descend on Victoria's coastline at the end of September or early October after a mammoth journey from the northern hemisphere, but so far this year they haven't shown up.

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.

A man that suffered a shark attack at Norval Park, north of Bundaberg, has called for the State Government to consider a shark cull or implementing shark nets.

Industry figures say unstable weather, a lack of infrastructure investment and poor international prices are hampering sugar sector confidence as mills open for crushing.

Queensland landholders are afraid that new government mapping of threatened species could lock up their land and force them to stop farming and grazing.

An Australian medicinal cannabis company is working to address a global shortage of pharmaceutical-grade product, reducing cost and improving access at the same time.

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.

Almost 11,000 people sign an online petition demanding the Director of Public Prosecutions appeal the sentence of a Maryborough man who bashed a two-year-old girl, leaving her with a broken back in 2017, with the Queensland Opposition calling on the Palaszczuk Government to act immediately.

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.

SunWater is about to shed the equivalent of 32,000 Olympic pools of water from Bundaberg's Paradise Dam, which is less than 20 years old so what went wrong?

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.

At first glance, the secluded camp looks like a lost city. Through the scrub are caravans, tents, vans and little dorms, where a group of kids are switching off technology and learning about Indigenous culture.

The cashless welfare card trial in Central Queensland is getting mixed reviews, with charities and community organisations saying there are signs of improvement but participants are less enthusiastic.

The drastic decline over the past four decades is linked to widespread drought which is causing bodies of water to disappear, devastating waterbird population numbers.

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".

At one Sydney medical centre the staff are trying to set up for the COVID-19 crisis, and to stay in business

Animal shelters across Australia have to keep going although the volunteers they rely on have been ordered to stay home. How do they cope now? What can the wider community do to help? And do you have a care plan for your pet in case you get sick?

Scientists have used a growth marker caused by radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests to determine the age of whale sharks.

A lawyer for the family of murdered Mackay woman Shandee Blackburn tells an inquest into her death the evidence points to the victim's ex-boyfriend.

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.

A teenage driver is jailed for running a red light and fatally crashing her car at high speed into an elderly woman in the Perth suburb of Floreat.

A career criminal who was banned for life from driving is jailed for crashing a stolen car into a family's van, ploughing it into a Woolworths truck and claiming the life of a five-year-old boy and injuring six of his relatives.

Australian cricket great Nicole Bolton didn't know if she would ever play cricket again when she walked away from the sport last year after a crippling bout of depression and anxiety.

Comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short discuss comedy and their 30-year friendship ahead of their Australian tour.

A Perth man who viewed violence as an acceptable way to manage his relationships is jailed for life for killing his partner, who had a chronic heart condition, by bashing her to death with his fists and a metal pipe.

At least 20,000 short-term rental properties in WA would be forced to register their details as part of a mandatory scheme designed to level the accommodation playing field and give peace of mind to consumers.

The mother of Perth girl Denishar Woods, left with severe brain damage after a severe electric shock, has been waiting for a report into the accident, but it fails to establish who is to blame.

Two WA Police officers who were chasing a car minutes before it crashed at high speed into a tree in Perth, killing three passengers, deliver emotional testimony to an inquest about what happened.

A Perth doctor is warning of the dangers of wearing high-vis shirts in direct sunlight after what she believes is the world's first case of burns from retro-reflective tape.