Tens of thousands of people in Australia's New South Wales state were without power on Saturday after a low pressure system brought damaging winds and heavy rains, sparking flood warnings.

Authorities declared a natural disaster Saturday in parts of eastern Australia where gales have toppled trees and knocked out power to tens of thousands of homes. Heavy rain, lightning and winds as strong as 100 kph have swept across Sydney and other areas of New South Wales since Wednesday.

The national cabinet has announced the creation of a new national database to share intel on increasing crimes.

Sydney and other parts of New South Wales were hit by fast moving storm, with thunder, lightning, heavy rains and winds that left some suburbs blacked out. This footage illustrates severe storm with lightning flashes,

The building, adjacent to a synagogue and Jewish school, was set on fire and antisemitic slogans were graffitied in is the second antisemitic incident in four days

A number of animals, plants and an entire ecosystem were added to Australia's extinction watch list in 2024. We look at the new species under threat.

Dec 7: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says antisemitic attacks in Australia linked to the government's position at the United Nations on Palestine. Dec 9: Federal police taskforce on antisemitism launched. Dec 11: Cars torched, buildings vandalised in Sydney’s east.

Rystad Energy's David Dixon stated that New South Wales was the best-performing state for utility-scale solar in December 2024.

Ed Fagan's family has been growing asparagus in the NSW central west since the 1950s, but he says supermarket prices and a tight labour market have forced him to abandon the crop.

In January, nine beaches in Sydney, Australia were closed after a bunch of gross little mysterious balls washed up along the coastline. They have poop in them.

The Black Friday bushfires which swept across southeastern Australia in January 1939 have been remembered as a deadly and traumatic event.