Accidents and Emergency Incidents

It's classified as an extreme sport and has led to several deaths, but the risk of serious injury in kitesurfing comes down to controllable factors, kiters say.

The Australian Federal Police are linking a 70-year-old man to emails sent to an electorate office after an investigation that began in April.

Josh Richards is on his way back to Australia, after multiple days helping rescue miners trapped in a Laos cave.

Days after a young Adelaide beachgoer had to be rescued from quicksand, a second person has spoken out about a similar experience along the same stretch of coast, saying she was momentarily overcome by "complete fear".

A relaxing sunset walk at the beach with a friend turned to panic for a young woman after her leg got stuck in quicksand, prompting a rescue from police and fire crews. 

Authorities say the blast was likely caused by explosives used for mining that had been stored in a warehouse. 

When Barnaby Joyce was deputy prime minister and transport minister in 2021, his assistant minister Kevin Hogan made a quiet, but hugely significant change to the Road Vehicle Standards Act.

Kelly’s son and ex-husband died "stupid" deaths in the Australian outback. She’s on a mission to make sure no more lives are lost.

A 14-year-old boy has suffered life-threatening injuries in a collision with another motorbike rider at a junior titles event in Victoria's west. 

Laos officials believe two other men may still be missing in the cave, although rescue crews say they have explored most of the tunnels and have not found any survivors or bodies.

A pilot has described the mission the most challenging rescue of his career.

A 23-year-old man has been charged with murder over the death of an eight-week-old child in suburban Perth.

A notorious Perth paedophile who breached his prison release conditions 11 times has again been freed into the community, as the child protection minister argues it may be unconstitutional to keep him in custody.

It looks beautiful in the Instagram post with blue skies and picturesque tarns carved by glaciers. But read further and the multi-day Tasmanian hike is considered one of Australia's most challenging bushwalks. In fact, it can be deadly.

The question of why experienced divers would descend to depths of more than 50 metres on a single tank of air — let alone enter a cave while doing so — baffles members of the relatively close-knit deep-sea diving community.

Australian man Matthew Paton, a Victoria Police sergeant, has died in Peru after falling up to 400 metres from a mountain path while walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Flashing lights on the roadside should mean one thing, but the RACQ says many drivers are not following their safety obligations.

The wife of 38-year-old Perth man Steven Mattaboni says her family's "hearts are irrevocably broken" after he was killed in a shark attack while spearfishing off the coast of Rottnest Island on Saturday.

Footage of the incident shows a group of vehicles queuing across a railway line, before a cargo train suddenly ploughs into the side of the bus and pushes it into oncoming traffic.

Five people were hospitalised after the liquid ammonia spill occurred just after midnight at a meat processing facility in Ipswich.