MORNING BRIEFING: The ex-girlfriend of a woman who fell to her death from a Sydney apartment block is expected to be charged with her murder, while a backpacker says the alarm about Theo Hayez's disappearance should have been raised much earlier.

More than 12 tonnes of dead fish have been buried after a council on the New South Wales north coast bowed to public pressure and opened a lagoon.

A man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend with the belief he could play a role in the child's life wins a High Court fight to be named the girl's legal father, blocking her mother from moving overseas.

At age seven, Lisa Millar was singing the ABC News theme and practising her interview technique on her little sister. After 25 years of reporting in Australia and overseas, she's now looking forward to the challenge of co-hosting a daily morning television program.

This 83-year-old ketch, Julie Burgess, is the last survivor of more than 100 built by the Burgess family and all were named after Burgess women.

Amid plans for a five-star hotel for Canberra's centre, some of the city's biggest music success stories plot to save its nightlife, claiming currently unenforced noise limits could kick into effect and threaten venues when the hotel starts hosting guests.

A strange ethnographic object and the mysterious Aboriginal man behind it.

Moa woman Paula Savage explains how 'waaru' inspires her as an artist.

An Adelaide Hills man charged with unlawful firearms possession as well as engaging in indecent filming is granted bail by a magistrate but prosecutors say they will seek a review of that decision.

Buying a home or a block of land is something many young people feel is out of reach but a new approach to property ownership could allow millennials to eat their smashed avocado and achieve the Great Australian Dream, too.

Dashcam footage shows an out-of-control truck hurtling through a red light at the base of Adelaide's South Eastern Freeway, moments after the vehicle lost its brakes and was forced onto the wrong side of the road.

Uyghurs living in Australia are urging the Federal Government to offer them protection after more than 30 countries, including the USA, condemned China over its "horrific campaign of repression" against its Uyghur minority.

Police investigating the alleged murder of Kim Chau whose body was found in a luxury Adelaide home say they found a "number of items" of interest during a search for evidence at a rubbish dump.

Dashcam footage shows the truck's brakes smoking, before it hurtles through a red light at a notorious intersection.

One of hundreds of victims of an Adelaide chiropractor who indecently filmed clients, including children, says the man took away her "dignity" and "confidence", but has vowed to move on with her life.

South Australian school students are urging adults and national leaders to share the water better in the Murray-Darling River system.

Christina Vithoulkas always had a positive outlook on life, but when she crashed her motorbike and broke her spine her positivity only increased.

Police and State Emergency Service volunteers are scouring the park where Shaun Thomas Russell, 36 was killed in Adelaide's southern suburbs.

A man accused of indecently assaulting a child at a Rundle Mall shop is tracked using CCTV and arrested, after police allegedly uncover child exploitation material at his home.

An arrest warrant is issued for a man and a woman wanted in connection with the fatal bashing of Hackham West man Shaun Russell, whose body was found in a park south of Adelaide.

An Adelaide woman who sued Channel Seven over a Today Tonight story which portrayed her as a "welfare fraudster" wins her defamation case on appeal, almost eight years after the report aired.

A Supreme Court judge overturns a decision to grant home detention bail to a man charged over a massive weapons haul in the Adelaide Hills last month.

A man whose Subaru WRX was stolen while his five-year-old son was still inside says he was scared for his life but the boy thought it was "just fun".

Two people charged with aggravated assault over a fight at an AFL game at Adelaide Oval are engaged in another altercation outside court.

A man and a woman are arrested in Adelaide's north and will face charges over the alleged murder of Hackham West man Shaun Russell, who was allegedly beaten before he died.

World number one Ash Barty is locked in to headline the 2020 Adelaide International, joining a strong list of female players including world number five Simona Halep.

A man and a woman charged with the murder of a man in a park in Adelaide's southern suburbs will remain behind bars until July, after a magistrate granted an adjournment to allow DNA evidence to be analysed.

Police investigating the stabbing of a 40-year-old man, who was found lying on the road at Hackham West overnight, uncover a drug lab believed to be used for growing magic mushrooms.

Snake Catchers Adelaide remove a snake hiding in a stove in a Semaphore home.

An Adelaide woman watches as a venomous eastern brown snake slithers through her home's doggy door into her kitchen and takes up residence in her stove.

Almost 10 years after being thrown from a motorbike and losing the ability to walk, the ABC's Charles Brice is about to return to the crash site for the first time before handcycling more than 300 kilometres to raise spinal research funds.

The man accused of the stabbing murder of Adelaide mother-of-two Suzanne Poll is denied bail after the prosecution revealed new details about the case against him.

Full-cycle docking of Collins Class submarines could disappear from its current site in South Australia by 2024, Freedom of Information (FOI) documents reveal.

A sustained gastro outbreak on the Indian Pacific train from Sydney to Perth has left more than 100 passengers sick over the past month, including two who had to be hospitalised.

Eliza Bartlett is a diabetic but is does not define her. The 27-year-old walked 4,200 kilometres across Europe to displace the stigma.

Child safety experts say school-based sex education programs aren't keeping up with the times, or the technology when it comes to sexting, despite research showing one in three teens is engaging in the practice.

Divisions in the AFLW over a proposed collective bargaining agreement put the future of the league's 2020 season in limbo, as the head of the players' association criticises a "damaging" campaign against the deal.

The aviation safety regulator is being urged to relax maintenance requirements for Angel Flight and other charity flight services, after a Senate inquiry slammed an earlier ATSB report into the charity's fatal crash rate.

A two-year-old girl hit by a four-wheel drive south of Adelaide becomes the latest toddler killed as a result of vehicle accidents on South Australian properties in recent months.

Ambulance officers are unable to save a man who tumbled off a train platform and onto the tracks in Adelaide's north-west this afternoon.

Adelaide man Malcolm Walker is found safe and well, but police say they will continue to investigate witness reports he was attacked and then forced into a car.