Emergency Incidents

Five "ill-prepared" tourists have "veered off course" during their descent from the summit of Mount Roland in Tasmania, sparking a rescue mission and a plea from police that all bushwalkers "not rely on mobile phones for communication or navigation".

Defence Minister Richard Marles says the search for four missing personnel following a helicopter crash in the Whitsundays last Friday is now a ‘recovery’ effort.

Activity in Queensland's Whitsundays has changed from search and rescue, to a recovery mission, Defence Minister Richard Marles says. 

The death of a woman whose body was found in the water at an Adelaide beach is being treated as non-suspicious.

A major search and rescue mission is underway for four air crew members after an Australian Defence Force helicopter crashed into the ocean near Hamilton Island in Queensland's Whitsundays.

One pilot survived the mid-air collision near Caboolture Airfield, which killed David and Jan Maddern on Friday morning.

Police say wreckage found off the Queensland coast appears to be from missing Taipan chopper, but the search continues for its four-person crew.

Queensland Police Acting Superintendent Paul Ready said it incident was a "devastating loss of life".

Typhoon Doksuri regained super typhoon strength in its final approach to south-eastern China after pummelling Taiwan and the northern Philippines with rain and strong winds that led to the capsize of a ferry in which at least 26 people died.

A man has been crushed while trying to free his bogged vehicle on a remote stretch of the iconic outback track in the WA desert.

The Tecnam single-engine aircraft crashed on a property about 110 kilometres north-west of Broken Hill.

A crane has been used to help emergency services reach a man who fell from scaffolding in Brisbane. 

The boat was designed to carry 20 people but 48 passengers packed onto the vessel, which capsized just after midnight.

A crime scene has been established on the Princes Highway on NSW's south coast after a man died and two other adults were injured in a two-vehicle crash.

A school gymnasium in China's Qiqihar City had it's ceiling collapse, with eight people needing to be rescued.

A man remains in a critical condition, while another man and a woman are stable in the city's south-west after Sydney's latest shooting.

Mother-of-two Gypsy Satterley and alpaca breeder Jessica Townley are remembered after their deaths in a horrific crash on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Authorities were alerted to a fire at the historic Williams Hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Queensland police say a stolen car involved in the fatal crash in the Sunshine Coast hinterland had been trying to ram another vehicle.

Police say their early investigations indicate the cyclist may have ridden through a red light at Nowra before a collision with a four-wheel drive.

Three people were killed in the crash after an Isuzu, which police alleged was stolen at knifepoint, was seen chasing and ramming another vehicle onto the wrong side of the highway.

A small mountain village in India is hit by a landslide in the middle of the night, leaving almost half of the estimated 225 residents trapped under debris up to 10 metres deep.

Mayor of Auckland, Wayne Brown, says the city has never seen anything like this morning's shooting in the CBD that left three people dead.

Armed police remain at the scene of a shooting in Auckland's CBD which resulted in the deaths of three people, including the gunman.

Armed NZ police are maintaining a heavy presence in the Auckland CBD, after reports of a shooting at a building construction site.