MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A former Australian police officer avoided a prison term when was sentenced Friday for killing a ...

Melbourne’s western suburbs recorded temperatures of more ... This severe weather arrives as New South Wales reaches the end of its high-risk bushfire season, typically running until the end of March.

The New South Wales Waratahs will look to shrug off their dire record in New Zealand and become the third Australian team to ...

A heat wave has resulted in a total fire ban for large swaths of New South Wales, including Sydney, with more "hot, dry and windy conditions" forecast.

In flood-prone northern New South Wales, 43,000 premises had lost power by early Friday, but electricity was restored to 6,500 of those by afternoon, officials said. State Emergency Service acting ...

“Mr. White made by what any measure was a terrible mistake,” Justice Ian Harrison said in the New South Wales state Supreme Court. Prosecutors had called for a prison term in the killing of ...

New South Wales, coming to the end of a high risk bushfire ... a home was destroyed in a bushfire on the outskirts of Melbourne that was being battled by around 200 firefighters, Country Fire ...