Crime

The family of Canberra man Harri Jokinen, who was killed during a high-speed police pursuit on the Monaro Highway in 2021, hopes an inquest into his death will lead to a change in policy.

A Perth woman who was pregnant when she fatally stabbed the father of her unborn child in their apartment is jailed for more than five years.

A 14-year-old boy charged in relation to the death of a nine-year-old at Windellama has faced court for the first time.

Police are investigating after a 51-year-old man was left for dead outside a Rockingham hospital overnight with multiple gunshot wounds, with evidence people were attempting to remove his tattoos.

A man dies in police custody after suffering a suspected cardiac arrest as officers and medical staff tried to subdue him inside Newman Hospital in WA's north.

A man is in custody and homicide detectives are investigating after a 48-year-old woman was found dead in a home in western Victoria. 

A woman who survived sexual abuse at the hands of a convicted paedophile former priest fears he will hurt her again if the Timor-Leste government succeeds in having him pardoned.

The Bondi Junction stabbing inquest has revealed numerous "concerning" red flags in Joel Cauchi's behaviour.

Former Olympian cyclist Melissa Hoskins died after being struck by a car driven by her husband outside their Adelaide home. This is how the case against Rohan Dennis unfolded. 

The ABC went on a multi-country investigation in the Pacific to understand one of the world's worst gender violence crises. What we found was much more complicated than a story about victimhood.

A man is in a critical condition after being stabbed "multiple times" in the chest during a brawl believed to have involved more than a dozen people in the Alice Springs CBD.

The WA Premier suggests a "gap in the system" allowed a CCC officer, who was under investigation by the agency, to be employed by another government body.

A man who attacked another man with a machete in broad daylight outside a service station in Perth will have to serve at least 18 years in prison before being eligible for release.

Police release the photo of a Tongan man on the run after an early morning border force operation saw one official assaulted and another stabbed in the neck. 

Social service advocates are pleading for support for public housing tenants as residents express their fears after a spate of violent attacks and antisocial behaviour in the Perth suburb of Inglewood.

Prosecutors believe the men were contact with individuals working for Russian state institutions and planned to mail explosives to Ukraine. 

Every morning when Chris Lawler opens the doors of his Canberran pharmacy, he knows some of the customers won’t be coming to purchase, but to steal. A new online portal offers hope things might get better.

Gun owners in WA are required to have their doctor to sign off on their mental and physical fitness in order to hold a firearms licence, and that has GPs worried.

Locals are concerned over a spate of violent attacks and antisocial behaviour in the inner Perth suburb of Inglewood, with residents calling on the state government to intervene.

A case where a group of men allegedly impersonated police to break into a Mawson home appears before the ACT Magistrates Court, with police saying they believe the victim was mistakenly targeted.