Australia's most populous state of New South Wales (NSW) on Wednesday said it would slightly ease the COVID-19 lockdown rules for Sydney's northern seaside suburbs during the Christmas holidays.

Ten people were arrested and a police officer injured Sunday at an anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne, where demonstrators claimed coronavirus was a government-engineered conspiracy designed to ...

A wildfire on the fringes of Australia's fourth-largest city Perth has destroyed several homes and forced emergency evacuations, authorities said Tuesday, just days after the west coast city entered a ...