Firefighters have confronted persistently strong and dry winds fuelling two giant wildfires that have terrified Los Angeles ...

A couple in witness protection is killed while their 12-year-old daughter hides upstairs until the cop she recognises calls ...

A 19-year-old who allegedly held scissors to a woman's throat and threatened to burn down her house faces a raft of family ...

Australian cities with similar climates to Los Angeles are experiencing the same drying conditions and erratic rainfall, ...

An innocent young woman house sitting for her brother on his honeymoon has been killed in a ferocious fire, in what ...

Beer and cigarettes were once an appropriate measure of the cost-of-living pressures voters were under.

Four female politicians have been elevated within the prime minister's cabinet as the concerns over women's representation in ...

Tony Armstrong has invited colourful North Queensland MP Bob Katter to the funky Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania ...

Damaging winds and severe thunderstorms have caused chaos across eastern Australia as emergency services respond to hundreds ...

The republican chair of the powerful House Intelligence Committee has been removed after expressing views contrary to ...

The unemployment rate ticked up from 3.9 per cent to four per cent, as expected by analysts. "With employment rising by ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the ...