Courts

Rachel Van Oyen was emotional as she pleaded guilty to two counts of careless driving causing death over the February crash.

Skipper Edward James Whisson pleads guilty to putting in danger tourists who were injured in a boat crash at Horizontal Falls. 

Police allege a group of boys, aged 12 to 15, stole a car from a home in Cairns and drove erratically to Innisfail and back before crashing into a tree, leaving a boy, 15, who was a passenger in the car with critical head injuries.

The four people accused of murdering Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey formally enter pleas of not guilty in WA's Supreme Court.

Survivors of alleged historical child sexual abuse at a Tasmanian hospital have received a combined $7.85 million settlement, with one claimant saying that while no money could remedy the abuse, it was "life-changing".

Combs has "firmly denied" the claims in the lawsuit, which also accuses the disgraced rapper of sexual battery, infliction of emotional distress and false imprisonment.

The White House says US President Joe Biden has issued a pardon for his son Hunter Biden.  

The court case over a Facebook post is part of a long dispute between Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun and former councillor Peter Ristevski.

The Indigenous community that lost almost $1 million to disgraced leader Geoff Clark says it can start to rebuild now he's been jailed after a decade-long investigation.

Every day of the coronial inquest into the death of Kumanjayi Walker, a sign reading "tell the truth" has stood outside the Alice Springs Local Court. Now, with final submissions heard, the NT coroner faces the task of finding that truth.

A family member of the victims tells a Tasmanian court: "I didn't just lose my mum and brother … I lost my family unit and I lost myself. I will never be me again."

A 26-year-old trades assistant had been on the job less than three months and had received no relevant prior training when he was killed in a workplace incident at a Kalgoorlie engineering firm, a court has been told.   

A Toowoomba man who killed and dismembered his neighbour before setting his house on fire has been found guilty of murder.

Callum Cameron is jailed for stabbing his mother to death during a frenzied attack at their St James home while under the influence of psychedelic drugs.

The first jury to deliver a majority verdict in the ACT convicts a 30-year-old Canberra public servant of sexually assaulting a colleague after a Christmas party.

Kerri Louise Wharf receives a suspended sentence for scratching five children, as young as 18-months old, and has been awarded $200,000 to cover her legal costs.  

It is a case that likely to have ramifications for all rental property owners in relation to providing to working smoke alarms.

Former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith pleaded guilty in September to more than 300 charges against 69 children in early learning centres in Brisbane and Italy over almost two decades.

Lawyers acting for the owners of a Tasmanian caravan park argue in court that long-term residency at the park is illegal and therefore an occupant's fight against an eviction notice should be dismissed.

Three men from Sydney have been sentenced to prison over their sexual assaults against three women in their late teens, with the longest term being 14 years.