The latest cold snap has been freezing enough to send weather records tumbling across southern Australia this week.

Comedian and leading dog behaviouralist Tony Knight has been killed at a festival in southern France.

Police have charged a 32-year-old woman from central Queensland with five counts of attempted murder after she allegedly crashed the 4WD she was driving on purpose.

Victorians have been urged to watch out for symptoms of the measles after an infected traveller returned home from overseas with the highly-contagious disease.

The changes will see the council net an extra $5 million in parking fee revenue this financial year.

For the first time since the mid-1990s, life expectancy in Australia has dropped, a new government report on the health of the nation shows.

New South Wales mother-of-four Christie Smith spends almost all of her days in bed wracked with pain, and has done so for the past five years.

A Gold Coast couple has been left outraged and heartbroken after thieves stole a tiara from the grave of their three year old daughter.

An Australian woman says she is devastated after she was told she won a car in a giveaway competition run by YouTube star MrBeast, but was then disqualified after being accused of having a "fraudulent" Woolworths receipt.

A thief with expensive taste in alcohol is on the run from police after swiping a limited-edition bottle of whisky worth $62,000 from a boutique bottle shop in Melbourne.

Lara Warwick had been working as a high school teacher for 18 years when she made the decision to quit her job last year so she could homeschool her own two children full time.

A man has been rushed to hospital in Ipswich with life-threatening injuries after a workplace accident.

'I heard the dog before I saw it - that's how loud it was. And when I saw it, I was just in tears.'

Telstra has announced it will be giving away thousands of free mobile handsets to vulnerable customers in a bid to help them transition to the 4G network.

A Dubai-based influencer was issued with a hefty fine of almost $2000, after filming herself  visiting a protected beach in Sardinia, Italy.

Sharon Walsh attempted to check-in to the Holiday Inn last weekend, but was caught short when staff requested an extra $300.

Participation rates in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program have fallen for a second year, causing concern amongst experts.

A Sydney woman has urged customers to check their gas and electricity bills after she was overcharged by more than 80 per cent.

A 20-year-old Sydney woman has issued a plea for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles to intervene in her case and allow her to stay in Australia.

Research participants were confident they could pick a scam, but 31 percent of those tested fell for one of these.

Outraged tenants say they are sick of being forced to pay their rent through third-party apps which can charge hundreds of dollars a year in sneaky fees.

A distressing photo has been captured showing a dolphin calf entangled in a fishing line in Perth's Swan river. 

Union leaders are campaigning for the federal government to introduce ten days paid reproductive leave for all workers.

Tony David was known by his opponents as "the deadly boomerang", but it was treatments he received as a child in Queensland that came back with a near fatal force.

Queensland construction manager Tracey Sims was floored when she was told her prosthetic eye was not covered by Medicare or health insurance.

Some New South Wales residents have woken up this morning to feel their house shaking this morning as a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck.

Now, he and other Australian victims are calling for action in the wake of damning UK findings.

A Perth father has spoken of his devastation and called for labelling regulations to be changed after his 22-month-old son died after choking on a grape.

A damning report has found a third of home loan customers facing financial hardship end up dropping their requests for help because their bank's application process is so difficult.

The home is designed so it can be constructed solo, by most able-bodied people.

Rachael drained her superannuation fund to zero when her kids were growing up. Now she regrets it.

The restaurants were known for selling expensive cuts of meat, with one $500 dish boasting a 1.6-kilogram wagyu tomahawk covered in gold leaf.

Peter Jenkin has worked as a palliative care nurse for almost 30 years and it's taught him a lot about death, but also about life.

A young woman has been left with a "catastrophic spinal injury" after the lead singer of an Australian punk rock band leapt into the crowd during a concert in New York state.

Last year, Chani was working 10-hours days as a Japanese teacher in a Brisbane high school. Now her life could not be more different.

Doing high-intensity exercise while you're on a time-restricted diet could just be the ticket to getting healthier, new international research has found.

More than half of our most vulnerable have skipped meals because they cannot afford to buy food, new research has found.

"People are amazed when they walk in, and it's just 'wow'," NSW resident Jill Crocket says.

Police officers were responding to reports of a gunshot when they found an injured man in a Melbourne alleyway early this morning.

The organisation has been left red-faced after some customers received custom stamps missing a key detail.

Sydney's iconic Light Brigade Hotel has been put up for sale and is reportedly expected to fetch about $20 million.

It's what you eat, not when you eat, that helps you lose weight on a time-restricted eating diet, researchers from the John Hopkins University in the US have found.

As a forensic investigations expert, Peter Baines has spent his career running towards disaster and tragedy - whether it be a grisly crime scene or an international disaster.

Radio host Ray Hadley has revealed the wretched moment he told Sydney entrepreneur John Singleton that his daughter Dawn was one of the victims of the Bondi massacre.

The body of a man has been found after a suspicious house fire in Melbourne overnight.

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood has put out a fresh appeal for people to donate blood in the wake of the Bondi stabbings over the weekend.

A shirtless stranger jumped onto a woman's bonnet and smashed the windscreen with his bare fists.

'I was thinking, surely it's not going to be that bad, and then I was just hit with an onslaught of "nos".'

When Sydney resident Tash received a strange package of clothes in the mail she was left feeling uneasy.

Two teenage girls have been arrested in Victoria after a police chase ended in a crash in Melbourne this morning.