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Australians are still suffering from budget airline Bonza's unreliability issues, one year after its launch.

Salt Ash residents have given evidence at the trial of Elijah Cage, Tyson Stamp, and Max Lowcock alleging hearing a gun shot, then seeing an out of control ute coming around a corner and crashing with ice dealer David King slumped at the wheel.

The Prime Minister and two veteran economists last week made impassioned calls for Australia to become a renewable energy superpower.

Joshua Toole has been sentenced to six years' jail over his link to a commercial drug syndicate, after pleading guilty to supplying 1.8 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Groovin the Moo's cancellation is just the latest blow to an industry facing a perfect storm of struggles. What can be done to save festivals like it?

Over the years, Jamahl Ali has thrived with support from his teachers, family and therapists. Now this boy with "a very kind heart" is leading his peers at Toronto Public School.

At the age of 15, Adelaide's Demi Bennett stepped into a wrestling ring for the first time. Twelve years later, she returns home as WWE Women's World Champion Rhea Ripley to try and retain the title in the biggest WWE event Australia has seen in years. 

Every new NRL season brings a fresh crop of rookie sensations. Nick Campton lists the five young players set to make an impact in 2024. 

Did you know the term "gaslighting" is from a 1938 play? A new adaptation shines a light on how gaslighting plays out in modern Australia.

A new coronial inquest has been scheduled into the disappearance of the young Sydney woman who failed to meet her mother at Newcastle Railway Station in 1994.

Chris Minns made the announcement at a Labor conference on the state's South Coast, where he criticised the previous government for failing to live up to its early education promises.

Groovin the Moo is a key event on Bunbury's social calendar, but the announcement that this year's event will be cancelled has disappointed local music fans and businesses alike.

Fifteen young people and a team of supporters climb Mount Kosciuszko to defy stereotypes about disability, while raising funds for the Cerebral Palsy Alliance.

Anthony Albanese spoke with the protesters after the event on the NSW Central Coast and told them that the government needed to be strategic in the transition away from fossil fuels.

Father of four Blake Tisdell died after he collapsed during training. He was the second Aberglasslyn Ants player to die in eight months. 

The Australian company's construction arm went into voluntary administration this month, with work on 21 development projects grinding to a halt and no guarantee they would resume.

Fire engulfs an auto-electrical workshop in the Newcastle suburb of Wickham.

Rhiannan Iffland, one of the unsung treasures of Australian sport, continues her dominance of high diving by winning a record-extending fourth consecutive world championship gold medal in Doha.

Back in the country for his new stand-up tour, Josh Thomas talks about how he stumbled into being audience surrogate for millennials around Australia.

Police urge residents to lock their homes after several luxury cars were allegedly stolen on the NSW Central Coast ahead of a pursuit that ended in Sydney's west Monday morning. 

Molly Picklum loses the final of the Pipe Pro in Hawaii, but cements her place in history with the first perfect ride by a woman at the famous surf break.

Stacey Klimovitch's family and friends sob in court as Canberra man Jason Paul Hawkins, who shot the veteran swimming instructor dead at her Newcastle unit, receives a lengthy prison term.

A Supreme Court jury is told a known ice dealer was gunned down in his car as he fled a "drug rip" — the ripping off of a drug dealer — north of Newcastle. 

A judge is urged to put Canberra man Jason Paul Hawkins, 48, in prison for life, over the "incomprehensible" shooting of a 61-year-old Newcastle woman.

The Minns government will introduce a bill to stop a permit that allows the exploration and extraction of gas in NSW state waters.