A teenage girl who watched two of her friends drown has described her desperation as they slipped away in front of her.

Industry insiders say coffee lovers — even in regional Australia — are unlikely to escape paying more for their flat whites as cafes are forced to push up prices. 

A 34-year-old social media influencer has been accused of torturing her baby daughter and taking photos of her in "immense distress and pain" to elicit donations.

Young siblings Otis and Frankie collect 10 cents for every cane toad they capture from neighbours' backyards.

Sunshine Coast man Luke Gourlay's mother and grandmother are desperately searching for clues to explain his disappearance more than a year ago.

Guided by the scribbles in three small notebooks about the orchard, Peter Wise's family continue to harvest fruit from hundreds of trees.

A national project giving homeless people a safe place to sleep is winding up, leaving communities scrambling to figure out how to run the service themselves.