When school kids shouted that they saw a man with a gun, their teacher thought it was a prank. What followed was something the residents of a tiny town would never forget.

Medicinal marijuana has been legal in Australia for several years now, but when could an employee lose their job for testing positive for the drug in the workplace?

Jonathan Swan, who has been covering Trump for close to a decade, warns that the president-elect has been emboldened to take more risk — and little stands in his way this time.

The self-portrait is perhaps the most ubiquitous image of the modern era, but contemporary artists use the portrait not just to reflect themselves, but to shift our understanding of who we are and what we could be.

With a federal election looming, far-right party Alternative for Germany is running second in the polls. Here's how it got there.

Music is a universal feature of the human experience, present from our very first cultures and civilisations. But do the features of particular songs and styles translate across cultural boundaries? 

A police officer found incriminating evidence on a phone. But he was the one charged. So what happened?

Louise Philip had just scored her breakout role on Australian television when a horrific car crash threatened to derail her life. But she fought to get back to work and thrived on Australian television sets for years, before embarking on a new challenge: motherhood.

A divorce or separation is one of the hardest things some people will experience, but there are ways to try to make it as least distressing as possible. 

Australians fork out much more on dental care than other healthcare, which is why people are increasingly delaying or skipping dental care. So should, or could dental care be brought under the Medicare umbrella, and what might this cost?