The city council's governance committee backed reforms of animal laws, including introducing a $619 fine for owners who fail to keep a dog under control.
An Adelaide man who threw a bucket of acid over his victim committed the cowardly and unprovoked attack at the request of his former partner, a court has been told.
Tourists were enjoying a midday swim at Wangi Falls in Litchfield National Park yesterday, unaware of the 2.4-metre saltwater crocodile lurking beneath the surface.
23-year-old Bangladesh student Ishaqur Rahman Sifat was critically injured by an alleged intruder, who police say assaulted him while he was asleep on Wednesday.
A woman has told how she was allegedly punched in the face by a homeless man as she was walking to work in Melbourne's south-east in an unprovoked attack.
A man and woman have been charged over an alleged random, daylight attack on a couple in Melbourne CBD that left one of the victims with a broken eye socket.
A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and burst into the Cantinho do Bom Pastor children's centre in southern Brazil, killing Larissa Maia Toldo and three other children who were buried Thursday.
A father who was stabbed to death outside a branch of cafe Starbucks in Canada asked the alleged attacker not to vape near his child, his family claims.
Monday's attack was the deadliest US school shooting in nearly a year and the 19th shooting at a school or university so far in 2023 that left at least one person wounded.
A NSW mother was unable to work for months after she was attacked by a kangaroo while trying to rescue a joey stuck in a fence in NSW's Blue Mountains.
An 85-year-old woman walking her dog was killed on Monday when an alligator pulled her into a nearby retention pond in southeast Florida, according to wildlife officials.
Shane Weatherstone and wife, Tanya, spent the better part of last year transforming their Moulden home into a rental only to have it vandalised just a few weeks after completion.
A man was left in a coma for five weeks and his housemate suffered a fractured skull after five intruders stormed their home in northern Victoria with knives and hammers.
Ten days on from an alleged coward punch attack that left father-of-three unconscious on a street in Adelaide, the victim has told how he feels lucky to be alive.
A man living with autism has spoken of his pain and embarrassment after he was bashed by a man and thrown off an early morning train in Melbourne's east.
A Victorian man has been charged with attempted murder after he allegedly stabbed a police officer multiple times, leaving the senior constable with "significant injuries".
The US observed Russian naval vessels preparing for a possible test of a new nuclear-powered torpedo in recent weeks, a senior US official with direct knowledge has told CNN.
New South Wales beaches are set to be safer than ever from shark attacks this summer as a strengthened defence strategy is rolled out up and down the coast.