Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Newcastle woman Rebecca Ode's family is seeking answers after she lost an eye and had 14 hours of surgery for a brain haemorrhage, shattered eye socket and cheekbone after a mystery incident in Bali.    

A teenage boy who allegedly wielded a machete during a brawl that sent the Westfield Marion shopping centre into lockdown last month has been granted home detention bail.

At least 121 people die in a stampede after a large religious gathering in northern India. Here is what we know about what happened.

A deadly stampede broke out at a religious festival in north India, killing at least 100 people and hospitalising more than 150.

Work to seal off the Grosvenor Coal Mine is underway as a worried community fears a repeat of a devastating 2020 blast.

After receiving Margaret River's first purpose-built shark attack response kit, Keith Halnan wonders why there aren't more similar aids across WA's beaches.   

Police say initial investigations into a fatal bus crash in north Queensland show the Greyhound bus travelled onto the wrong side of the road before colliding with a four-wheel drive towing a caravan.

Three people were left unconscious at the Wentworthville residence, with fire crews saying the carbon monoxide levels inside the home were more than four times the dangerous limit.      

Police have confirmed that a 22-year-old man has died in a light plane crash in South Australia's far north. The man was the pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft.

A middle aged couple is rushed to hospital from their Perth home after inhaling fumes when they tried to burn charcoal to stay warm amid cold overnight temperatures.

The 34-year-old hiker has been found after 10 days in the Northern California mountains, where he survived by collecting water in his shoe.

South Australia's Premier has praised the police response at Westfield Marion shopping centre amid "an awful amount of misinformation" about Sunday's emergency lockdown, but says a review will help inform a government assessment of the way the situation was handled by the centre and authorities. 

Greek authorities arrest 13 yacht crew members and passengers after a forest fire allegedly sparked by fireworks launched from the boat.

The debacle is the latest in a string of problems for the Interislanders, once a much-loved Kiwi institution but now synonymous with blunders.

An Alaskan man and two police officers rescued a baby moose from a "sure demise" after the animal became stuck between a lake float plane and dock.

At least 13 people have died and more than 25 were injured when an express passenger train collided with a goods train in India's West Bengal state, local police officials say, as rescue teams work to extricate others feared trapped.

The US National Transportation Safety Board is also investigating why another Boeing 737 MAX 8 "rolled" during a flight last month. 

A woman in her 80s and a man in his 60s, who police believe to be her son, have been killed in a house fire at Woodridge, south of Brisbane. 

SA Police says a 90-year-old occupant had been trying to escape the burning unit through the front door but could not get out because of mobility issues.

A former federal South Australian senator representing customers of a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence says compensation offers made to passengers on the flight is "mean and miserable".

NT Police have revealed further details of a Finke Desert Race campfire explosion which left six Victorian men with significant burns.

Friends say Coral Seinor and Thelma Clausen, who died in a crash on the Brand Highway last Friday, looked for "any excuse" to organise a party and were founding members of their local Country Women's Association.

Three women have been swept off the rocks at Kurnell in the Sutherland Shire, sparking a major emergency response. One woman managed to make it back to shore but the other two were pronounced dead after being pulled unconscious from the ocean.

Large crowds are again expected to line Sydney Harbour for Vivid Festival's second drone show, as people are urged to be patient and organisers say they are experienced in crowd control.  

The man aged in his 40s went missing yesterday afternoon after being spotted struggling at Surfers Point, Prevelly.