Crime

Juan Daniel Visagie, who has a history of domestic violence offences, is sentenced to 11 years in jail for killing his baby daughter.

Less than a week after Brevet Sergeant Jason Doig was killed near Bordertown, hundreds of Lucindale residents and police have paid tribute to the "good man" who they say gave the ultimate sacrifice.

A Perth court has been told a 77-year-old man will maintain he is innocent of murdering a woman who vanished in Perth almost 40 years ago.

The study shows of the more than a million women who've experienced child sexual abuse almost half suffered it between the ages of five and nine years of age.

A man has been charged over the alleged murder of a woman in suburban Adelaide — one of four female victims who have died in suspicious circumstances in domestic settings in the past week.

WA Police Commissioner Col Blanch rejects claims that Broome is in the midst of a crime crisis, but residents disagree and some are voting with their feet.

In Katherine. crime is on the rise to the point where one business owner is "cowering" behind a "locked door" during trading hours.

About 400 pro-Palestinian activists last night gathered at the port to protest against the unloading of an Israeli-owned shipping company vessel. 

A document published by the High Court has offered a snapshot of the crimes committed by a cohort in immigration detention now ordered to be released. While some had assaulted children or murdered people, others had no convictions in Australia.

Former Department of Housing contractor Craig Robert Dale pleads guilty to defrauding the remote Kimberley community of Warmun to the tune of $2.7 million.

During the attack, Cian English and his friend were threatened with a knife, forced to undress, assaulted, robbed, degraded and tortured.

Residents left devastated by a bushfire crisis that destroyed homes in the Adelaide Hills in 2021 confront the firebug in court, telling the former CFS volunteer of their grief and terror.

After several break-ins, Feliota Fahey now sits at the front of her store in Katherine, where police data show break-ins have continued to increase, leaving the door locked before letting people inside.

Police believe the shooting occurred during an altercation between two groups in the town of Moe last night.

A man tells a BBC podcast he saw a young man "in full stride with this baby on his hip" back in 1970, with a former detective into the three-year-old's disappearance from a Wollongong beach calling for the claims to be investigated.

The Super Junior member was in his dressing room for his final performance of Ben-Hur the musical when an intruder came in.

The man was found critically injured at a home in the Broome suburb of Cable Beach this morning and died at the scene.

Michael Purse was picked up from the Adelaide Casino before being stabbed, punched and kicked at a Kilburn unit in 2019. His body has never been found.

The man accused of killing 18-year-old Charlie Stevens in an alleged hit-and-run crash at Goolwa Beach appears in court facing multiple charges including causing death by dangerous driving.

As the girl's family watched on in court, her father was sentenced to a lengthy period in prison for "horrific" offences the judge says she has never seen before. WARNING: This story contains upsetting details.

A Queensland state school teacher has been refused bail, accused of more than 200 child exploitation offences. He was arrested last week but a court has heard investigations have uncovered further alleged offences.

The family of the officer shot dead at an SA regional property last week has accepted an offer of a state-supported police funeral, while buildings and landmarks across Adelaide will be illuminated with blue light.

A 25-year-old man faces court charged with the alleged murder of a 63-year-old woman, and the attempted unlawful killing of her daughter, in the Perth suburb of Beckenham on the weekend.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murdering a woman in Adelaide's south last night.

The 18-year-old son of South Australia's top police officer has been killed in a hit-and-run while attending schoolies celebrations at Goolwa beach.