Getty ImagesThere are manifold reasons why recorded shark encounters are rising in Australia's oceans - but fatalities are relatively rareIt's "extraordinary", says shark researcher Chris Pepin-Neff: four shark bites ...

A powerful king tide caused damage as it battered Sydney's coast on Tuesday evening.Waves reaching 5.5 metres shattered glass and lifted floors at Sydney's iconic Bondi Icebergs pool.The surf ...

Some 265 trees and plants, the equivalent of 14 tennis courts, had been razed - cut down or pierced with a drill and injected with poison, sometimes both. So ...