A man accused of stabbing a total stranger in the neck with a fork has been granted bail to return back to the same street ...

A mother-of-four struggling to come to terms with the devastating loss of a baby has been slapped with a lengthy restraining order after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman in a North Queensland ...

The state government has been accused of prolonging “years of child abuse” at one of its most troubled youth detention centres by moving too slowly to fix critical failings.

A man has been released four days after being kidnapped from his family home in Sydney’s west last week. George Ayoub was grabbed from outside his Belfield home about 6am last Thursday as he walked ...

Police have arrested three people after they allegedly kidnapped and assaulted a man over a 12-hour period in Sydney’s south ...

Almost 1100 prisoners have been released on home detention before serving out their court-ordered non-parole period over the ...

A DNA test to see if police got the “wrong Shorty” over the 1988 murder of Janine Balding has so far found no link to another man accused by her killers of being the “right Shorty”.

A Boxing Day brawl which has entangled AFL stars Dion Prestia and Steven May may have started over unwanted advances to a ...

Amid the chaos of one of the state’s biggest days in legal history, a top Adelaide defence lawyer pleaded with a Magistrate ...

Experts say cost of living pressures, and the ability to make money quickly, is behind a surge in copper thefts which are leaving highways and sporting fields in the dark.

A woman has been stabbed in a frightening attempted carjacking in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. The victim was sitting in her ...

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