Shopping these days is no private affair as shopper surveillance ramps up towards the Christmas period. What you might not be aware of is that traders and their employees are also being keenly observed.

Illawarra is not a hotbed of top NBA talent, but LaMelo Ball has already done enough in the NBL preseason to rocket to the top of NBA mock drafts.

Artist Tanya Stubbles created 22 artworks for a Chinese client six months after leaving a brain injury unit in Sydney.

Daniel Mansbridge was seven kilometres into a 1,000-kilometre charity ride for children's cancer when he was knocked off his bicycle and bashed by a group of teenagers.

The train Harris Cheung catches to work in Sydney each day takes an hour-and-a-half the same time it took to travel the route on a steam train in the 1930s.

They've battled gale-force winds, cold winter nights, and drunks serenading them with Billy Joel classics at three in the morning. But two young medicos are determined to keep sleeping out in their scrubs to draw attention to the detention of asylum seekers.

It startled the cows, intrigued the locals and excited scientists around the world. Fifty years on, the Murchison meteorite still defines a town and yields new discoveries every year.

Almost 30 years after a car accident left Picton artist Freya Jobbins' face disfigured, she's deconstructing dolls to make creations that shock.

Energy Australia has apologised to a customer for issuing him multiple bills that 'did not make sense' despite his repeated complaints.

Stephen Grimmer, the brother of murdered toddler Cheryl Grimmer who disappeared in 1970, pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

With so much of Australia's allure to tourists based on our oceans and waterways, a charity founder has launched a campaign he'd like to see played in airports and pushed via visa applications.

Australia's Jillaroos maintain their three-year dominance of New Zealand's Kiwi Ferns with a 28-8 triumph in their Test match in Wollongong.

Australia's next generation of rugby league stars land their first blow against New Zealand, bouncing the Kiwis 26-4 in Wollongong.

As students stress and cram for final-year exams in the hope of getting into university, a small group of students prepares to finish high school without having to sit one test.

Newly retired NRL star Sam Burgess will appear in court in December over an alleged incident at a residence near Bowral earlier this month.