Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Workers at a plant where two silos collapsed last year are at risk of serious injury or death, according to dozens of improvement notices issued by the NSW safety regulator.  

Emergency services were called to the property in Windellama, near Goulburn, after a firearm was accidentally discharged. 

Emergency services were called to Round Hill Heads in Seventeen Seventy, where the bodies of a 46-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were later retrieved from the water by helicopter.

Police received reports early on Sunday morning that a woman had entered the water at Newcastle Beach and failed to return.

The death toll after a roof collapsed at a crowded nightclub in the Dominican Republic has climbed to 218, in the Caribbean nation's worst disaster in decades.

The pilot was delivering the Bathurst 1000 trophy to the track on Mount Panorama last year when the violations occurred, investigators have found.

The Australian Transport Safety Burea report has found a series of safety issues contributed to the crash that killed four people and injured nine others in 2023.

Police are investigating the death of a 49-year-old Sunshine Coast man after they were called to a Maroochydore home.

Melbourne man Stoj fell six metres in the Cathedral Range State Park, shattering his back and prompting a six-hour rescue.

Police have confirmed the body of a missing man last seen swimming near Kununurra has been found. 

The Anglo American-owned Moranbah North in central Queensland has been safely evacuated after dangerous gas levels were detected.

The principal of St Edmund's College in Canberra says two teenage boys who were hit by an allegedly stolen car on Friday morning outside the school are in serious but stable condition, and face "a long road to recovery".

A desperate search and rescue operation resumes for a man who went missing after swimming at a Kimberley waterhole.

Two teenagers who were hit by an allegedly stolen car outside St Edmund's College on Friday morning are now in a stable condition after undergoing emergency surgery.

The man is alleged to have stolen a car from a NSW childcare centre with a child still inside, before letting her out, driving to the ACT, hitting the two teenagers, crashing down the road and attempting to flee on foot.

Emergency services rushed to the air show at Avalon, south-west of Melbourne.

The submarine was carrying 45 tourists and crew while sailing in the Red Sea near Hurghada. 

An audience member suffered a medical emergency during the Allstars Supershow at the Palais Theatre in St Kilda.  

Emergency services have gone into the third day of searching the remote Kimberley after two people fell into the water at Drysdale River National Park on Monday.

A pilot who died in a plane crash at Jandakot Airport last year was likely distracted by a loose engine cover, a report finds.