A tram fire in the Sydney CBD highlights ongoing safety and reliability problems with the city’s increasingly privatised public transport network.

In today’s news, Australia’s gross domestic product expands by 0.8 per cent, fire breaks out at a super fund-backed oil hub, and panic at the petrol station becomes stagflation fears for markets.

Vivid Sydney returns from Friday 22 May to Saturday 13 June 2026, lighting up the harbour with large-scale installations, ...

A small outback town roughly 370 miles northwest of Sydney is quietly becoming a proving ground for a new chapter in Australian policing. In Moree, two drones now sit mounted on the roof of the local ...

Sydney light rail commuters have had their travel plans thrown into chaos after a tram caught on fire in the city’s inner suburbs.

Jewish leaders have slammed the Biennale of Sydney for failing to censure festival artists over “objectionable” social media ...

The small fire on the tram’s roof forced services to be suspended for several hours on Thursday as the private operator assessed the risk to its fleet.

Sydney — Australian police on Monday appealed for the urgent return of an 85-year-old man kidnapped in what they said was a case of mistaken identity. Police received reports early Friday that ...

Authorities are seeking to connect with family members of a baby boy who was left at a fire station in Australia in November ...

MELBOURNE, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Australia's aura as a white-ball heavyweight has all but petered out in the space of two disastrous defeats at the T20 World Cup where the absence of their champion fast ...

Palm Springs plans to build a new downtown fire station next to the current historically designated one. Local businesses are concerned the new station will eliminate a crucial parking lot, ...

Turnout timers, color-changing lights, so-called heart-smart ramping audible tones, and text-to-speech readouts are among the technological innovations that have been applied to fire station alerting ...