Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Lisbon's popular Gloria funicular railway car derails and crashes, leaving at least 16 people dead.

A fire that gutted a shopping centre in Perth's inner north-east is deemed to be non-suspicious, after authorities reviewing CCTV initially mistook the reflection of a car's windscreen for a molotov cocktail.

The body of a Queensland man who died while BASE jumping in the French Alps has been returned to Australia.

After initially declaring a fire that gutted the Morley Market shopping centre was deliberately lit, police backtrack on that claim and deem the blaze "non-suspicious".

A medical centre in outback SA has launched an internal review after a man suffering from a suspected heart attack was refused entry and had to be treated at the local pub instead.

Police say a woman has died of a suspected snake bite in the regional Northern Territory town of Katherine after she collapsed on Monday afternoon and was unable to be revived by paramedics.

Documents investigating the 2023 helicopter crash, today released by the government, identified failings by the Department of Defence.

A motorcycle rider has died and a toddler is in a serious condition after separate crashes within an hour of each other on WA roads yesterday.

A West Australian man who was honoured last year with a prestigious award for excellence in child protection is charged with child sex offences.

The 52-year-old Sunshine Coast man, who died after a charter fishing boat capsized at Mooloolaba this morning, is being remembered as a "lovely man" and experienced skipper by the local fishing community.

A police officer has been airlifted to hospital and an elderly woman has been left with serious injuries after two separate crashes involving police vehicles on Thursday.

A woman has died and a person is assisting police with their inquiries following a serious incident in Perth's east.

Police are investigating after an infant was found dead in a stormwater drain in a street in Perth's north..

Police say emergency services received reports that a man and a vehicle were involved in a collision just before 1am on Marmion Avenue in Butler.

When Caleb Humphries's car broke down on the Nullarbor Plain, he spent two days watching cars drive past him and hoping someone would stop, until help was sent from more than 1,200 kilometres away.

A truck driver has died after a crash into a Toowoomba retirement village unit.

A fatal light plane crash in south-west New South Wales will not be investigated because the plane was a recreational aircraft.

The US Coast Guard finds OceanGate's chief executive ignored warnings from employees and that the company 'actively retaliated' against those who spoke up.

The band says its members are "shocked and saddened" after the man, who was understood to be sitting in the upper tier, fell to his death during the concert.

The owner of a car that rolled out of a driveway and dropped 40 metres from a cliff, south of Adelaide, says he was trying to charge the vehicle's battery when the incident occurred.