A Victorian man coerced girls into sending him explicit photos and videos, then blackmailed them into sending more by threatening to post the material on the internet.

FINALLY, in the sporting arena, New South Wales has got one over its Queensland rivals.

THE behaviour of some of Karen Ristevski’s closest family members has raised eyebrows from the moment she went missing in June last year to the discovery of her badly decomposed body in Victorian bushland on Monday.

YACQUB Khayre was a violent criminal, a terribly-behaved prisoner, and a one-time terror suspect with known links to extremists.

TREASURER Scott Morrison has not given up pursuing the remainder of the government’s 10-year business tax plan and will present the next phase to the Senate when the government believes it will pass.

A WOMAN, who had stopped for a coffee before work, is in a critical condition after a car struck the footpath and slammed into her on Friday morning.

Funding for defence projects will undergo a major shake-up following a landmark report that found the Defence Force was not “fit for purpose”.

KAREN Ristevski’s husband Borce is the chief suspect in his wife’s murder, his own lawyer conceded on Wednesday.

BY all accounts, Sarah Ristevski was incredibly close to her mother Karen and the pain of loss is written all over the young woman’s face.

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull and US President Donald Trump are reportedly planning to meet in New York in May to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.

DONALD Trump is set to change his stance on climate change, according to a former US Republican congressman.

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Offenders accused of serious domestic violence charges will be electronically monitored or be kept on remand under a raft of proposed reforms revealed today.

A senior Labor leader has warned a federal election could be called as early as December, with others stating party members must “pull together”.

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A MAN and a woman have died in a shooting incident that sparked a stand-off with police in Victoria’s north.

POLICE are investigating whether a man who shot another man dead and took a female escort hostage in Melbourne overnight staged the siege to lure counter-terror officers to the Brighton address.

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Police have released fresh images of people they wish to speak to about a chaotic riot outside a Sydney church, sparked by the stabbing of a bishop.

FAMILY and friends are paying tribute to Amir Ammari, the 16-year-old boy who died after falling 15m and striking his head on a submerged rock at a popular swimming hole in Sydney’s south.