Crime

Police have arrested a 17-year-old boy after a man was fatally stabbed in a street in Tennant Creek overnight.

The main focus of a coronial inquest into the death of a Perth mother and her daughter will be the medical care their killer Mark Bombara received in the lead up to the double-murder suicide, a coroner reveals. 

The mother of a man found guilty of murdering underworld figure Gavin Preston has told the Supreme Court her son has always been polite and considerate.

It comes in the wake of Queensland's DNA testing debacle, which triggered the retesting of forensic samples going back years.

The grandparent of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has been fined $10,500 for possession of a gun silencer at the family's Oak Park Station, in South Australia's far north. Police have previously said the offence is not related to his disappearance.

Nadire Sensoy disappeared from Sydney's west in 2018, with her disappearance triggering a police reward and coronial inquest.

Mandarin grower Bruce Crain says people's growing dishonesty, including the theft of 70 bags in one weekend, makes it impossible to offer a roadside service.

A young man who could have paid $115 to discard a trailer load of tyres has been fined thousands for illegally dumping them down a mine shaft in a national heritage-listed area — and ordered to clean it up.

Family members told police they last heard from the woman on Monday, when she told them she was visiting a relative at a reserve in Sydney's north-west.

Archive footage of Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed, two Uyghur men sentenced to death for the 2015 Bangkok shrine bombing, being escorted by officers outside court.

The man from northern NSW was also found in possession of neo-Nazi material during a search warrant on Thursday. 

The men were accused of carrying out the attack on the popular Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people, many of whom were Chinese tourists.

Former bikie boss Angelo Pandeli was attempting to fly to Africa on a fake Brazilian passport when Indonesian immigration authorities apprehended him over an Interpol notice.

The first hearing of a NSW inquiry into missing persons has heard from the family of a teenage girl who went missing in the 1970s near where notorious killer Ivan Milat was operating. 

Three people have been hospitalised after a family dispute at a Central Australian outstation turned violent over the weekend, sparking fears of further unrest.

NSW Police arrested the 42-year-old in Greenacre in Sydney's south-west overnight and he has been charged with 24 offences.

Northern Territory Attorney-General Marie-Clare Boothby says crime is trending down in the territory, citing police statistics, one year on from changes making community safety the paramount consideration for courts when granting bail.

The government says bail law changes made a year ago are working despite a string of tragedies and unrest in bush communities.

Police have charged four men after a series of alleged drive-by attacks using handmade slingshots on members of the public across Brisbane's western suburbs.

As UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer fights for his political life, the country is bracing for what could be a yet another summer of unrest.