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 | MALCOLM RIPPER lived near the snowfields and knew a perfect day for skiing when he saw one.
20/08/2008 | A MAN accused of defrauding the NSW Fire Brigades of $1.5 million was, until Monday, a project manager on $43 million worth of Federal Government construction projects for Aborigines in Redfern.
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 | YOUNG adults continue to flock to the bright lights of Sydney for work, education and play, while older people are more likely to live by the sea, population figures released yesterday by the Bureau of Statistics show.
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 | THERE'S not a lot of action at the Urban Farm at the moment, trapped as we are in the icy bowels of winter. Time then, to reflect on matters spiritual and turn our attention to: The Lawn.
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 | IN 1998 the lid was lifted on the corrupt world of NSW railways, revealing that supplying prostitutes could win you a contract, fake medical certificates signed by a dead doctor would get you a day off work, and you could claim overtime while playing golf.
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 | 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.