Police

Now two days into the manhunt for the suspect behind the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, questions swirl over how he could disappear in the city of surveillance.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has slammed a potential ban on NSW Police marching at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras despite LGBTQ+ community consultation showing a majority do not want officers to take part.

Police allege gas cylinders were ignited and caused fires in two legal practices, including a Legal Aid NSW office in Gosford CBD.

Multiple US media organisations, citing unnamed investigators, say the ammunition used to shoot the UnitedHealth chief executive had the words "deny," "defend" and "depose" written on them.

SA Police will ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider appealing the suspended sentence given to a woman who assaulted a pregnant police officer.

A paramedic refused to force entry into a patient's home, despite assurance from a carer that the man was inside and in need of assistance, an inquest hears.

Police say two children under the age of 10 are believed to have broken into the reptile park, killing two turtles and injuring four others.

An investigation is underway following several explosions and a fire in Gosford this afternoon.

Five people have been seriously injured after a B-double truck collided with a ute north of Rockhampton.

Police have arrested a 47-year-old man over the death of a 60-year-old man at Caboolture, north of Brisbane.

A leading police officer, road safety minister and father of an 18-year-old who died in a car crash have sat around the same table to talk road safety solutions, as Western Australia's road toll reaches the highest level since 2016. 

A police taskforce targeting the illicit tobacco trade is investigating a fire that destroyed a shop in the Victorian town of Rochester.

Singer Mitchell David Callaway had been accused of killing a nine-month-old baby in his care in July 2018. That charge was today withdrawn.

This week, a boy was approached by a man in a white van in Boronia, in Melbourne's east, and a teenage girl in Doncaster ran to a shopping centre after a man in a van asked her to get in.

Brian Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, was on his way to a corporate meeting when he was attacked.

Brian John Leering was found guilty of sexual penetration without consent after a two-day trial in Kununurra District Court.

A Sydney school principal and his brother-in-law are accused of mismanaging up to $1.4 million in funds intended for maintenance and building works at two high schools.

Raina Cruise has been given a good behaviour bond for assaulting a police officer and two security guards while "particularly fired-up" after attending an anti-COVID vaccination rally in 2021.

NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy flies into the remote community of Milikapiti on Melville Island after three officers were attacked during an arrest, leaving one unconscious.

Court documents have shed slightly more light on the historical charges laid against broadcaster Alan Jones, including allegations he touched or fondled complainants' genitals and squeezed bottoms.