A 13-year-old boy swam for hours through rough ocean waters to save his family after they were swept out to sea off Australia’s coast, a heroic effort police say saved his mother and two younger ...

PERTH, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Australia hit a new clean energy milestone during the December quarter, even as power demand rose over 2.2% from a year earlier, the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) ...

Australia’s recent land use change has steadily reduced and degraded native vegetation, shrinking the amount of intact habitat available to wildlife and weakening ecosystem resilience. Clearing has ...

Parts of Australia sweltered in record temperatures of close to 122 degrees Fahrenheit Tuesday as the country sweated through a prolonged heat wave even as bitter cold covered much of the U.S. The ...

Steve Turton has previously received funding from the Australian and Queensland governments. Millions of people in southeastern Australia are sweating through a record-breaking heatwave. The heat this ...

Australia banned social media apps for under 16s in December, and, a month later, there's been a mixed reaction from teens, experts and tech firms. As many teens find ways to circumvent the law, major ...

The police found two homemade Islamic State flags in the car of the suspects, a 50-year-old man and his 24-year-old son. Victoria Kim Jin Yu Young Yan Zhuang and Livia Albeck-Ripka Victoria Kim, Yan ...

Three decades ago, almost 650,000 firearms − about one-third of all privately owned guns in Australia – were surrendered, loaded into trucks and destroyed. In exchange for these firearms, part of a ...

Australia already has some of the world’s toughest gun laws, but the Bondi mass shooting could lead to even tougher rules as the realization spreads that they aren’t strong enough to prevent bloodshed ...

A father and son are suspected of having fired long weapons at a crowd of beachgoers, killing more than a dozen during a Hanukkah celebration on Australia's Bondi Beach. The two are accused of opening ...

Alexandra Carlton is a leading food and travel journalist, writing for titles including Gourmet Traveller, Good Food, Qantas, Escape and The Australian. She's based in Sydney but jumps on planes ...

Can children and teenagers be forced off social media en masse? Australia is about to find out. More than 1 million social media accounts held by users under 16 are set to be deactivated in Australia ...