After winning $215,000, Ali Cobby Eckermann took time off from writing. Now her new book She Is the Earth has won the top prize at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.

Separatists in riot-hit New Caledonia refuse to abandon roadblocks that have paralysed much of the Pacific archipelago and halted commercial air traffic, defying a major security operation by French forces.

A court has heard a Casino teenager killed in a fatal 2022 stabbing challenged his alleged attacker, who claims self-defence, to a "one on one" multiple times.

Queensland police have confirmed a new search for the 27-year-old started in the Noccundra area, in south-west Queensland, last week.

It is alleged a group of six men and eight women, which included her parents, prayed to God to heal eight-year-old Elizabeth Struhs, rather than seeking medical attention and held a belief that "God would heal".

Three Catholic high schools on the NSW Central Coast have cancelled planned visits from conservative American "chastity speaker" Jason Evert following pressure from students and parents. The schools say students can instead attend an opt-in live stream.