FIVE men have been rescued after their boat sank in waters off Mackay.

THREE people have been hospitalised with minor burns after a backyard explosion in a small port town east of Melbourne.

OPES' decision to keep a client's failed $200m portfolio alive may have contributed to its collapse.

A 26-YEAR-OLD man has fallen to his death from an abandoned building connected to disused silos in Melbourne early today.

I spent a couple hours back at the shop today putting some new yarns up on the website. We finally got the long-awaited Noro Kureyon Sock yarn! And according to the discussion on Ravelry, the price is pretty competitive...

CHINESE aluminium giant Chinalco has indicated it plans to use its shareholding in Rio to get greater leverage in the world copper market

WE are in the midst of a global financial crisis inspired by a potent combination of forces, writes ASX chief executive Robert Elstone.

VIRGIN Blue warned late Friday that its full-year profit would plunge 35 per cent on the back of surging fuel costs and passengers could expect to be hit with new surcharges.

A COURT yesterday ruled against St George Bank in its long-standing dispute with the Australian Taxation Office, forcing the bank to take a $117 million hit to its first-half financial results.

Aussie Cru Halliday the current 250cc Australian Supermoto Champion will take on USA’s finest Supermoto racers in this weekends ESPN X-Games event. On a borrowed Supermoto Machine from ...

POLICE have used capsicum spray on a man after he allegedly bit an officer during an arrest.

POLICE are investigating the death of a 47-year-old cyclist whose body was found on the side of a road near Mt Isa overnight.

A GROUP of men have turned on one of their friends, punching, kicking and knocking him to the ground, in West Melbourne overnight.

They call it catching 'the bug'.Once a rider contests an Australian Four Day Enduro (A4DE), it's veryhard not to keep riding it again and again and again.For a group of die hard A4DE ...

Youth homelessness in Australia remains a matter of significant and urgent concern.It is recognized that almost half of all homeless people are under the age of 24 years, and in Melbourne, ...