Australia has taken delivery of its first MC-55A Peregrine, introducing a new airborne intelligence, surveillance, ...

It is insulting to suggest that Randa Abdel-Fattah, the writer at the centre of the storm that led to the cancellation of Adelaide Writers Week, faced a freedom of speech restriction. She can say ...

The bombs were found on the street by members of the public this week, with police asking locals to keep an eye out for more. Over the past two days, police received several reports of pipe bombs ...

Former NSW fire chief Greg Mullins warned the outer suburbs were at risk of raging fires and Australian cities had the potential for fires similar to the blazes that devastated Los Angeles last year.

Politicians are given a $322 nightly travel allowance to cover accommodation, food and incidentals during Canberra sitting weeks, but non-ACT based politicians can claim the amount even if they stay ...

At least 6.9 million residents on Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart fringes exposed as dry summer follows years of vegetation growth Follow our Australia news live blog for ...

Australian navy light cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk off the coast off Western Australia in November 1941 after a battle with German raider Kormoran. The foreign warship had been disguised as a Dutch ...

A strange smell has been wafting through the Canberra Centre during one of the busiest times of the year. Nieve is the Canberra Times' education reporter, covering all levels from early education ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

The land battle phase of Exercise Talisman Saber 2017 was launched on July 13, 2017, with the largest amphibious landing Australian troops have been involved in since WWII. Troops transported ashore ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds. The IJN Teruzuki fought fiercely in the first and second naval battles of ...