Courts

Nathan John Bailey will be eligible for parole next year, after pleading guilty to importing a controlled substance.

Marina Morel's passion for horses was evident to all who knew her.

Marina Morel came to Australia from France to follow her dream of being a professional jockey, but died after the horse she was riding collapsed.

Haydn Thomas Mansell pleads not guilty to careless driving causing death after the vehicle he was driving collided with a freight train at a level crossing near Albany.

A driver who has avoided jail after she fatally struck a 21-year-old motorcyclist was under the influence of cannabis and on the phone at the time of the crash south of Adelaide, a judge says.

Semi-professional Perth basketballer Roosevelt Williams Jr is jailed for raping a friend following a night out, with the court told how he sent several text messages afterwards describing what he had done.

A forensic pathologist has told a committal hearing for Michael James Chalmers she believed the 62-year-old woman died from neck compression, smothering or gagging.

A public officer in regional Western Australia has faced court on charges of attempted fraud, corruption and stealing while working for the Shire of Coorow. 

A man has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Barry Urban, the former Western Australian Labor politician who was allegedly attacked at a tyre business he managed in Perth.

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will stand trial on two counts of rape at a later date.

A Victorian man appeared agitated as he faced court on a murder charge after a body was found in the small town of Jung earlier this week.

Daniel Holdom is appealing his life sentences for dumping the body of a toddler in a suitcase after he killed her and her mother.

Bank of America has tentatively settled a lawsuit claiming it ignored suspicious financial transactions involving Jeffrey Epstein while he was sexually abusing hundreds of girls and women.

Blake Seers has been charged with two counts of murder after the bodies of a 37-year-old woman and an 11-month-old girl were found inside a home at Belivah, south of Brisbane, last week.

Police allege illegal material was found on the youth support officer's work and personal devices. He has received several awards for his work with young people in the town of Cunnamulla after he founded a neighbourhood centre.

New government measures to monitor people released from indefinite immigration detention are struck down by the High Court in Canberra.

Detectives praise the bravery of more than a dozen women who testified against Bunbury massage therapist and rapist Anthony Brain, including Anwen Handmer.

Four weeks after the ABC revealed sensitive court files were being accessed offshore in a potential risk to national security, the company responsible for the breach has entered into voluntary administration.

A jury sees a covert police recording of Melbourne man Steve Fabriczy admitting to being involved in the burglary where Canberra grandmother Irma Palasics was killed in 1999, as he faces trial for her murder.

A childcare worker is standing trial over allegations he raped a young child on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.