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Slovenian rider Urska Žigart broke her jaw in a heavy crash at the start of the final kilometre of stage two of the Tour de Suisse Femmes in Locarno on Friday morning AEST. Žigart lost control riding at high speed over a speed bump and crashed hard on the ground, rolling and sliding a number…
The West Australian government is celebrating signs of success of wildlife crossings built along a major highway in the South West, with thousands of recorded uses by the endangered species, such as brush-tailed phascogales and western ringtail possums. WA’s Main Roads has told the ABC that night-vision cameras have recorded thousands of critters using the…
The start of the snow season in the NSW Snowy Mountains has slowed to a crawl due to a lack of the most vital ingredient. Since the Perisher and Thredbo resorts opened two weeks ago, just 14 centimetres of snow was recorded by Snowy Hydro’s snow recording station at Spencers Creek, and none at Deep…
In most elections, interest rests on a simple question: who won? When it comes to Makerfield, however, the results were trumped for many onlookers by something else: what happens next? For the first time in a long time — perhaps ever — Britain’s political spotlight has been trained on this constituency of metro-fringe communities and…
A boys’ trip that finally made it out of the group chat after two years of planning has become a tribute to a beloved friend. A dozen mates were months away from flying from Australia to North America to watch the Socceroos at the FIFA World Cup when the excitement was shattered. Brisbane man Brett…
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s suggestion of offering up Queensland islands to Elon Musk for launching satellites and setting up microchip manufacturing has been met with a mixed reaction from local tourism and business groups. In a speech on Thursday, Mrs Hancock said “sparsely or non-populated” islands off North Queensland’s coast should be offered to SpaceX…
Police have charged a third person over a fire that destroyed the Adass synagogue in Ripponlea in Melbourne’s south-east. The fire, which police believe was deliberately lit, tore through the synagogue shortly after 4am on December 6, 2024. Early-morning worshippers inside the building were forced to flee. Victoria Police, along with the Australian Federal Police,…
All living US ex-presidents — with the notable absence of current White House occupant Donald Trump — have joined a star-studded line-up for the opening of Barack Obama’s presidential centre in Chicago. Mr Obama, 64, struck his trademark hopeful tone in a speech inaugurating the modernistic centre. But the country’s first Black president also alluded…
The wife of AFL icon Tony Modra has thanked emergency services “who saved his life” as the Crows legend remains in hospital following a truck crash in South Australia. Fellow Crows great and breakfast radio host Mark Ricciuto, who described the former champion forward as “one of my best mates”, read out a statement provided…
Tunnelling for a new motorway in Sydney’s south will recommence after collapses and sinkholes halted the project more than two years ago. Almost 90 per cent of tunnelling on the M6 project was completed when works stopped after two subsidence events in early 2024, which put a nearby building at risk of collapse. In early…