The Latest Breaking News from SES

There have been more than 240 calls for assistance as Adelaide and the surrounding Hills area experienced flooding, with more rain expected over the weekend.

Major international and national tests show rural students, on average, do not do as well at school as their city peers.

When a major flood warning was issued for Huonville on Wednesday night, authorities feared a repeat of the devastating floods that hit the town in 2016. But by daybreak, the outlook had improved dramatically. So why was the modelling so different to the outcome?

A land, water and air search for 80-year-old Peter Roach — who is non-verbal and has a medical condition that can cause confusion — is scaled down in Central Queensland.

The flood-hit Northern Rivers region is in the firing line for more flash flooding and heavy rain, prompting a warning from the NSW SES.

The search continues along beaches on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula for local teacher Simon Baccanello, who is believed to have been killed in a shark attack while surfing on Saturday morning.

A woman missing in the Queensland bush for more than a week has been found, in what police say is a "miraculous" turn of events.

Police say they feared the worst for the mother-of-four, who drank from puddles to survive an eight-day ordeal lost in bushland in north Queensland.

A man has died after being found critically injured inside a car following a shooting in suburban Melbourne, with three other men on the run.

Freezing cold air from south of Australia has combined with moisture to bring a dramatic dump of snow across areas of southern New South Wales.

Hard-hit residents in Burketown, where nearly 40 houses were inundated, are praising the work of a small group of Indigenous rangers who were some of the first responders during and after the emergency.