NSW Premier Mike Baird's shocked his state and the nation by announcing he is retiring from politics.

Kiwi yachtsman Alan Langdon is pursuing Federal Court intervention for the return of his daughter, according to a report.

Graphic image: A beachgoer found a human appendage in the toilet block and handed it into police.

Evie Amati, the transgender woman charged with a terrifying 7-Eleven axe attack, suffered from psychosis that told her to kill, a court has heard.

A yachting expert says a fleeing yachtie's sailing trip with his young daughter would have been slow going with big weather risks as he crossed the Tasman.

This is video of the moment an axe-wielding woman strolled into a 7-Eleven and started hacking at two innocent customers. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.

A wife who found her husband with a younger woman has been accused of ramming his van off the road before smashing into his lover's vehicle too.

Triple killer grandfather John Walsh has been accused of murdering his 71-year-old Long Bay prison cellmate with a sandwich press.

A hop over the ditch doesn't need to break the budget, writes Shandelle Battersby.

Andrew Leeson takes in Lake Macquarie's idyllic setting and opts for a little adventure on the side.

The bomb squad is reportedly investigating an explosive device that was found at an electricity substation in western Sydney.

A surfer has a severe leg injury after being mauled by a suspected great white shark in Australia.

A runaway seal has found itself mixing with the wrong herd after he was spotted in a cow paddock miles from the ocean.

Thousands of children go missing every year. Some never make it home again.

A distraught mother saw her daughter crushed to death under a falling war memorial.

Three vicious dogs that resisted Taser shocks have mauled a police officer and a couple in a bloody attack outside a home in western Sydney.

Three people died drinking $2 moonshine sold in Coke bottles, which was so strong it could paralyse people.

Eight people, including one Kiwi, have been arrested in a massive drug smuggling bust of $54 million worth of liquid meth found on a boat on a northern Sydney beach.

A well-known Sydney gangland figure was killed overnight with a bullet to the head in an execution-style shooting.

Before Australian Paul Lambert stabbed and tried to burn a woman he met on Tinder he had been deported from the US for stalking another woman.

"Use some common sense," NSW's rural fire chief told the bushfire selfie taker. Social media users were more blunt: "Seriously mate, grow a brain!"

A burglar got more than he bargained for when he broke into a couple's Sydney home, as he was shot by the angry homeowner.

Ellie Otineru learned she was pregnant with her third child two weeks after her partner's sudden death.

Paul Lambert was handsome, had a good job and a warm smile, but when the woman he met on Tinder turned him down, he didn't take the news well.

Kiwi Dreamworld victim Cindy Low's distraught family have spoken of their loss for the first time.

A Facebook page dedicated to the late Stephanie Scott has been inundated with tributes to her dad who was tragically killed.

So far there have been 12 shark attacks in Australia this year, but scientists have no idea why they are congregating.

Inside the sick world of Sydney paedophile dance teacher Grant Davies who took thousands of photos of the tiny girls he "adored".

Reports the Davidson father who is believed to have killed his wife, two children and himself contacted a euthanasia group have since been refuted.

The parents of little Elisa, 11, erected a fence around their northern beaches home after she escaped earlier this year, it has been revealed.