Award-winning volunteer charged with possessing child-abuse images

A former police staffer and lauded SES volunteer is granted bail on a charge of possessing child-abuse images.

Two concrete power station chimneys fall, one is in half and dust is spilling from the bases.

Beneath the rubble of Liddell Power Station towers lay 'perfect' plan

Half a tonne of explosives was needed to bring the Hunter Valley's Liddell Power Station chimneys crashing down.

Government sues 3M Australia for $2 billion over PFAS contamination

The Commonwealth is launching its largest-ever legal claim, suing the manufacturer of a firefighting foam containing PFAS chemicals that contaminated 28 Defence Force bases across Australia.

Anjali Palmer stands outside a medical clinic in Katherine.

Residents still can't eat too many fish from river in PFAS-affected town

Katherine residents have welcomed a $2 billion lawsuit over PFAS contamination in the town, saying "it's about time we started holding large corporations to account".

Steady rain over brown paddocks with water starting to pool.

Record-breaking rain welcomed in drought-hit parts of NSW

Up to 100 millimetres of rain has been welcomed across drought-hit parts of western NSW, but some farmers expecting relief were left disappointed.

A teenage girl in a white karate outfit, flanked by two older women wearing black dresses.

Karate teacher's 'hair pulls and chokeholds' combat gender-based violence

Savannah Last has been a "karate kid" since she was two, but when she was attacked by a group of teenagers last year, she felt "hopeless".

Kalyn Ponga hits Tolu Koula during State of Origin.

'Not proud of it': Ponga shattered by shock Origin send-off

Kalyn Ponga is left feeling responsible for Queensland's Origin I collapse as the decision to send him off leaves several greats shocked.

Two men sit in a press conference, one on the right with his arms crossed and the other looking down