An alleged unlicensed drink-driver is accused of stealing a courier van, ramming a police truck and crashing into at airport fence in outback NSW.

A man who boasted to his mother about driving an expensive stolen car at 270 km/h in suburban Adelaide has been jailed for more than four years.

Manly captain Daly Cherry-Evans maintains the NRL is wrong about South Sydney being in a try-scoring situation when Jake Trbojevic was sin-binned on Friday night.

A woman is dead and a man in police custody in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

Two Victorian teenagers and a man in his 30s face dozens of criminal charges after allegedly firing ball bearings and marbles at people, shops and houses in a period spanning almost a year.

A man in his 70s has been found dead following a house fire in regional Victoria.

A man has been charged with assault after punching a man on the street and a police officer in Sydney's CBD.

A man allegedly wanted on outstanding warrants tried to evade police and sparked a pursuit in NSW's Hunter region.

Local councils will be forced to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26 under new federal government rules.

Parramatta's game-breaking wing duo of Blake Ferguson and Maiko Sivo have an unlikely fan in Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy.