3:21 PM AEST | A lost baby humpback whale - desperate to find its mother - has reportedly been trying to suckle another boat in Pittwater.
11:41 AM AEST | Shot man who died outside a Sydney hospital was Khaled Dib.
20/08/2008 | Children believed to be sleeping in a Maitland dumpster were playing games.
20/08/2008 | Brendan Nelson shifts gear over nuclear energy by urging the Government to make the power source part of Australia's energy future.
20/08/2008 | It's an enormous challenge but Luke Hunter believes there is hope for the carnivores he has devoted his life to, writes Nick Galvin.
20/08/2008 | POLICE have begun a search of Maitland in the Hunter Valley for three children aged between four and nine who they fear have been living rough on and off for the past fortnight in an industrial bin.
20/08/2008 | RELIGION is either the basis of moral teaching or a chimera that frees its practitioners from responsibility, depending on which side of last night's Intelligence2 debate one believes.
20/08/2008 | TWO NSW Fire Brigades project managers had used privately operated companies to tender for fire brigade work and abused their position in the fire brigades to submit their own tenders and extract profits of 40 per cent or more, the Independent Commission Against Corruption was told yesterday.
20/08/2008 | USING just 1 per cent of Australia's so-called "hot rocks" supply could produce 26,000 times the amount of energy that is now used each year.
20/08/2008 | TO THREE-YEAR-OLD Dominic Mellare it looked just like an iceblock and it tasted "very yummy". But within hours of secretly taking a few nibbles on the ice pack his mother, Nicola, had applied to his sore fingers after touching a hot stove, the Newcastle toddler was unconsciousness.
20/08/2008 | ANGRY women took to the streets of Mount Isa last night to protest against a plea for lovelorn "ugly ducklings" to redress a gender imbalance in the north-west mining town.
20/08/2008 | THE Federal Government has appealed to the minor Senate parties for help after the Coalition confirmed yesterday that it would block budget measures worth $4 billion over the next four years.
20/08/2008 | TAX credits for employers who offered paid parental leave would be a less discriminatory way of helping families juggle caring and work responsibilities, a forum on maternity leave heard yesterday.
20/08/2008 | GUARDS shot dead a man during a bungled robbery of an armoured car in Parramatta last night.
20/08/2008 | FORGET a sea change or even a tree change. The best quality of life is to be found in the suburbs, particularly those in the Ku-ring-gai and Hunters Hill local government areas.
20/08/2008 | Nicole Kuepper has developed a simple, cheap way of producing solar cells in a pizza oven.
20/08/2008 | FOR her 10th birthday, Nicole Kuepper received an inspirational present from her parents - her first solar-energy kit.
20/08/2008 | THE Reserve Bank considered the case for an "early reduction" in interest rates at its board meeting two weeks ago amid concern the economy may be heading for a "deeper and more persistent slowing".
20/08/2008 | IT WAS a case of no one mention the war when Brendan Nelson opened his forum on teenage binge drinking at Parliament.
20/08/2008 | THE ratepayers of Botany Bay might not yet realise it but their council election has been and gone, with the man who has worn the mayoral robes for 27 years, and all sitting ALP councillors, elected unopposed.