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A 21-year-old man has been arrested and charged with 11 offences over an alleged violent home invasion in Condell Park in April. Police allege he was part of a duo-for-hire who held two residents aged 57 and 60 at gunpoint and assaulted a woman in what authorities believe was a case of mistaken identity. Task Force Falcon investigators say the incident represents young people working as contract c...

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of 15-year-old Darweish Mohamed near Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre in Melbourne's north. The victim was allegedly ambushed by up to 14 youths and found critically injured metres from a community hospital, where he later died. Three other individuals, including a 20-year-old man, a 15-year-old girl, and another 15-yea...

A motorcycle collided at high speed with a silver Toyota Corolla at an intersection in Morayfield, Moreton Bay, north of Brisbane just after midday. The motorcycle rider fled the scene on foot despite the severity of the crash, prompting police to launch a search due to serious welfare concerns. The female driver of the Toyota suffered minor injuries. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy inform...

A fire broke out in a storage facility in Scoresby, Melbourne's southeast, threatening the neighbouring Cadbury lolly factory and forcing the shutdown of confectionery production. Emergency services evacuated the area with 13 firefighting units responding to the blaze, while one man sustained non-life-threatening burns. Police have closed the street and are investigating whether the fire is suspic...

A fatal crash occurred on the Northern Highway in Tooborac, approximately 90 minutes north of Melbourne, when three vehicles collided with a fallen tree at 6am in pitch-black conditions. One driver was killed, another was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while the third driver, who was in a truck, escaped injury. One vehicle appears to have struck the tree at windscreen height, suggesting...

A giant petrel found near Hawks Nest on New South Wales' mid-north coast has returned a positive preliminary test result for H5 bird flu, marking the first suspected case in an eastern Australian state. Five confirmed cases of the deadly H5N1 strain have previously been detected in seabirds across Western Australia and South Australia. Secondary testing is currently underway to confirm the result....

A laundromat worker in Clarkson, Perth, accidentally started a fire while attempting to remove a tag from clothing just before midnight. After rushing out and finding herself locked out, she repeatedly rammed her Commodore into the shop front to re-enter and extinguish the burning clothes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Perth police have arrested 20 wanted people in one week using Australia's first facial recognition cameras, which scan passersby against police databases. The technology, currently being trialled in Perth CBD, Midland and Mirrabooka, has scanned over 130,000 faces with only two false alerts, also detecting 21 registered sex offenders. The five-month trial has prompted immediate results, with arres...

Western Australia is implementing its largest overhaul of residential planning laws in nearly 30 years, reducing the minimum block size for subdivision from 900 to 700 square metres under R20 zoning. The changes could unlock 50,000 new development sites across Perth, allowing homeowners with larger blocks to subdivide and build additional dwellings. The reforms also propose reducing mandatory car...

Western Australia Police have deployed Australia's first facial recognition cameras in a five-month trial across Perth suburbs including Mirabooka, Midland and the city. In the first week of operation, the cameras scanned over 130,000 faces and led to at least 20 arrests of wanted individuals, with only two false alerts. The technology screens passersby against police databases for wanted persons...

The government's been forced to change how it determines the level of aged care older Australians receive. They're adding more human screening as a new challenger to Anthony Albanese emerges armed with a racquet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Adelaide experienced its wettest start to July in 40 years, with 56mm of rain falling in under two days, causing widespread flooding across the city. The Patawalonga River swelled to dangerous levels, threatening to spill over during high tide and putting Glenelg residents at risk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A murder-suicide at Hope Island has claimed two lives, with 84-year-old Bob Marsh dying after a trusted family friend set fire to the home, trapping multiple family members inside. The attacker also died in the incident, while three other family members were hospitalised. The family is left devastated, with three generations nearly wiped out by someone they trusted. See omnystudio.com/listener for...

A 15-year-old boy, Darwish Mohamed, was fatally stabbed by a group of up to 14 youths outside a community hospital in Craigieburn, Melbourne's north. Police arrested a 20-year-old and 16-year-old suspect within hours, finding a burnt-out vehicle linked to the murder 13 kilometres from the scene. The attack followed an earlier fight, with the victim's body discovered in a pool of blood alongside a...

There's chilling new details tonight about the actions of Australian Simon Carman in the hours after he allegedly killed a teenager in Thailand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jemli Williams Mariner, a father of four addicted to methamphetamine, has been jailed for 18 months for firebombing the ATET Dockside bar in Melbourne's Docklands. The New Zealand national was convicted after mobile phone footage of the fire was discovered, though no motive has been established and police believe it was a paid job. The controversial floating nightclub is now suing Melbourne City C...

Police have arrested four teenage boys, all under 17, following a violent home invasion in Green Acre where a young man had his hand severed with a machete during a robbery. Separately, a Chester Hill home was sprayed with more than 30 bullets in a targeted shooting that miraculously left a family of three unharmed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A young surfer is sharing a story even he can barely believe, how he kicked away a shark that had just attacked him in northern NSW. He needed two operations on his foot, but he knows the alternative could have been so much worse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One person has died and three others have been hospitalised in Melbourne after unknowingly consuming heroin that was sold as cocaine or methamphetamine. All victims are in their early twenties and are from across the Melbourne metropolitan area. Health authorities have not determined whether the contaminated drugs came from one bad batch or several, and the motive for the mix-up remains unclear. S...

A 15-year-old boy, was fatally stabbed by a group of up to 14 youths near Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre in Melbourne's north. His body was discovered in a car park metres from a community hospital with a large hunting knife beside him. Police arrested a 20-year-old and 16-year-old within hours of the attack, and a vehicle linked to the murder was found burnt out in Bulla, approximately 13 ki...

Victoria's Premier Jacinta Allan faces corruption allegations that her staff pressured builders to use a CFMEU-approved labour hire company when she was Transport Infrastructure Minister in 2022. The Liberal Party executive will meet on Friday to decide Moira Deeming's future after she made assault claims against fellow Liberal MP Matthew Guy that were dismissed by police. See omnystudio.com/liste...

Two brothers from Yagoona are tonight accused of one of the lowest acts imaginable, stealing the life savings of an 88-year-old man with dementia. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A former Sydney childcare worker has been jailed for 12 years for filming indecent images of young boys in his care on the lower North Shore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It was a terrifying night for one Sydney family when dozens of bullets were sprayed at their Chester Hill home. It's been described as nothing short of a miracle that nobody was hurt. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Police have bashed down doors in early morning raids across Sydney's southwest, calling out four teenage boys, accused of a home invasion which shocked many last month. The gang is accused of barging into a Greenacre home and slicing off a man's hand with a machete in a violent robbery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.