Disasters, Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Natural disasters have punctuated most years of their high school life, but this year's Heywire winners only have tales of resilience to share. 

The 41-year-old rigger fell from a catwalk onto a studio stage on Tuesday. 

The findings are the result of an initial report by a US safety board investigating the incident.

The firefighters union is demanding the aviation regulator takes action after five Boeing 737s and a further 59 planes arrived at Sunshine Coast Airport with too few firefighters working in the past two months.

The charge comes after the accused's father was found dead with head injuries at a home just south of Wollongong.

Ukrainian officials have not responded to the claims.

At least 46 people have been killed by wildfires in Chile with the death toll expected to rise.

Police said Aroulen Chinnien, who was in his 20s, and woman in her 30s died after being hit by the train at Berowra Railway Station about midnight.

Michelle McKenzie realised she was not alone in the waist-deep water that was rising through her Laidley chook pen, counting 16 snakes trying to escape the water around her home.

US politicians had been pressuring the company to withdraw the request following a harrowing mid-air cabin blowout on January 5 that exposed numerous safety and quality control concerns at one of the world's two major jet makers.

Questions are being raised on the safety of swimming in Sydney Harbour after a woman was attacked by a bull shark on Monday evening. Calls to stay out of the water have been made by local councillors, but what do experts say?

Former defence force chief Angus Houston reveals how Tony Abbott considered sending a "large military deployment" to Ukraine after Russia-backed separatists shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, killing 298 people including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

Police say the man had been jumping with a group of men from the 30-metre-high falls and failed to resurface. It is the second death at a swimming hole in the region this month.

A medical team was winched in to treat the man, but bad weather meant it was four hours before he could be taken to hospital.

After two years of floods inundating the east coast of Australia, thousands of customers are still waiting for their claims to be finalised.

NSW government to review recommendations to ensure safety of  vulnerable women and children.

A coronial inquest into the drowning death of Ardebby Oh Chua recommends that businesses conducting snorkelling activities should carry an emergency oxygen unit.

Emergency workers have airlifted a man in his 80s to safety after he fell down a cliff in Marysville, sustaining head and pelvis injuries.

Two weeks of winter storms in the United States have turned roads into icy death traps, frozen people to death and caused power outages that could take weeks to fix.

Emergency services resume their search for a man who is still missing after seven people became caught in a rip at a beach near Sleaford yesterday afternoon.

Emergency services say a small fire at a Point Cook tobacco shop — the latest in a string of such incidents across Victoria — is being treated as suspicious. 

Power is starting to return to Kalgoorlie-Boulder after a summer storm toppled massive transmission towers, causing extended outages to the city's water, fuel, internet and phone services. 

Australia has committed to an ambitious target of zero road deaths by 2050, but if the current trend continues, that's near impossible. So what's going wrong?

Mourners have paid tribute to Perth Olympic cyclist Melissa Hoskins who died after she was struck by a car allegedly driven by her husband on December 30.

A summer storm has pummelled WA's Wheatbelt and eastern parts of Perth, with Western Power warning it could take days to restore services to all affected customers.