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.

The heartbreaking bushland search for Matthew Leveson is over but his parents say their resolve to find their son has only been strengthened.

A former senior police officer said the overnight execution of a well-known Sydney gangland figure could lead to more mafia murders.

"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.

Police are treating the tragic death of a family of four as a murder-suicide, as neighbours reveal the parents' struggle with disabled children.

Brodie Soster was visiting family in New Zealand when she was forced to deliver her baby at 25 weeks to save both of their lives.

In Australia a vet is calling for pet ownership to be restricted to permanent residents, after he rehomed a dog that was dumped on the streets by an international student.

For more than 30 years the question about who killed Mary Louise Wallace been one that has haunted her family, friends and detectives.

Justine Tyerman slips into another life at a glamorous yet homely property on the edge of Sydney Harbour.

A photo is circulating on social media apparently showing the moment a man in his 30s was shot by police in New South Wales, Australia.

Man was held hostage, attacked and stabbed 11 times before being bundled into a suitcase and set alight, court hears.

Firefighters have extinguished a bus fire that closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in peak hour, but traffic chaos is continuing.

On arrival, we were greeted by one of the "directors of chaos".

The New South Wales town of Nimbin is a throwback to the seventies, complete with brightly-painted buildings, scores of people wearing tie-dye, and shops full of hemp products, writes Kirrily Schwarz.

Justine Tyerman reverts to childhood at a quaint settlement on New South Wales' Central Coast.

Rodney Boatswain's mother wrote him out of her will, so he killed her friend, an inquest has heard.