The Sydney Roosters eased the pressure on under-fire coach Brian Smith with a 34-26 NRL win over Penrith.

NSW coach Ricky Stuart is contemplating rolling the dice with just one specialist prop in the State of Origin decider.

A former Australian Idol judge has been found dead in an apartment in eastern Sydney.

Actor Nicole Kidman has returned home to Australia to show off her new daughter to her family.

New South Wales' Perisher snow resort is the largest such operation in the Southern Hemisphere.

Sydney's White Rabbit Gallery is a visual feast.

The extortionate sums charged for Perrier and San Pellegrino are a frequent complaint of restaurant-goers.

John Key will today become the first New Zealand leader to address the Australian Parliament.

A different world awaits those who look beyond the tried and trusted attractions of Australia's biggest city.

South Sydney's Queensland contingent guided the Rabbitohs to a comfortable 31-8 NRL win over a disappointing Gold Coast outfit.

NRL star Benji Marshall will face a court hearing in August over a charge of assaulting a man at a McDonald's restaurant.

Read extracts from the new book by Lesley Elliott, detailing the life and death of daughter Sophie, killed in a frenzied attack...