Law, Crime and Justice

A 35-year-old woman has been charged with armed robbery in connection to a crash that killed a Queensland grandmother. 

When a child isn’t safe with their family, they are placed into the care of the WA government. But some of these children and their foster parents are shining a spotlight on conditions they say are putting youth back in harm’s way.

A man is in critical condition under police guard after a woman's body was found at a hotel in Penrith, Sydney's west. 

A 32-year-old man accused of stabbing a teenager and leaving him to die in bushland in south-west Sydney has been denied bail. 

A 21-year-old man is charged with criminal code assault after a baby was taken to a Launceston hospital with serious injuries.

Jacob Greig, 32, was denied bail as a Sydney court was told a confrontation between the pair, who were not known to each other, took place on Friday night near a campsite in Wilton.

Early inquiries have uncovered no evidence of a systemic problem with the aircraft after it made an emergency landing in Sydney after engine failure. 

A 32-year-old man has been arrested after a 15-year-old boy was found on the side of the road in Wilton, south-west Sydney.

NSW Police say they are treating the incident as suspicious after a body of a teenage boy was found in Sydney's south-west.  

A crime scene has been established in bushland in Sydney's south-west after the body of a teenage boy was found. 

It is unclear who is behind the reported texts, how many people had received them, or how the recipients were targeted.

A West Australian inquiry into the disappearance of a woman in Kalgoorlie 25-years-ago has been adjourned due to a lack of witnesses. 

Police allege the 59-year-old man, who was arrested at the scene, was known to the woman.

There are calls on social media for people to stay away from private events for friends and family of the One Direction star after his body was repatriated to the UK earlier this week. 

A police officer found incriminating evidence on a phone. But he was the one charged. So what happened?

Two survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at the close of an Ariana Grande concert seven years ago have been awarded 45,000 British pounds ($88,000) in damages after successfully suing a conspiracy theorist who claimed the attack was staged.

Corrections Minister Gerard Maley said the damage included smashed wash basins, metal intercom panels torn from bedroom walls and metal plate light and power sockets ripped from walls, leaving live wires exposed.

Russ Thompson wants this birthday to be in memory of his granddaughter and raise money and awareness for the Gold Coast Domestic Violence Prevention Centre.

A woman has been killed in a fatal crash at Murrumba Downs, north of Brisbane. Police allege a 16-year-old boy stole a vehicle at gunpoint before crashing it. 

There has been an angry reaction after a man who killed two women in Melbourne was sentenced to just 14-years behind bars.