The rural property where police finally caught up with the fugitive gunman was a good place to disappear.

An accountant from Mildura in Victoria's north-west found guilty of an egregious breach of trust has avoided a lengthy prison term, to the dismay of his clients. 

A jury has found AFL player Nick Stevens guilty of deceptively charging families for swimming pools they never received. 

Police say they will come down hard on anyone who helped Dezi Freeman, who was shot dead by police yesterday after a massive seven-month manhunt.

Commuters say they are worried overcrowding on V/Line train services could worsen as free travel begins for Victorians to ease the pain of the fuel crisis. 

Diesel stocks would last about six months if Australia's imports dropped by 20 per cent, according to modelling compiled for the federal government early in the Middle East war.

A new Vodafone campaign has regional Australians seething after the telecommunications giant claimed to focus its network infrastructure on where "98 whatever per cent of you actually live".