Rachael Ward

Conflict in the Middle East is thousands of kilometres away from the desks of Saina Salemi and her colleague Oscar, but the pair constantly discuss blasts and evacuation warnings.

Driving through smoke as heat radiates through fire trucks and flames lap at the road, Country Fire Authority members know they are in a race against time.

Legume and cereal farmer Simon Nuske lost up to 70 per cent of his land in the Dimboola fire but still considers himself lucky.

When Jane Fletcher went into hospital for routine surgery, she never expected to come out with a superbug and a front-row seat to the “silent pandemic”.

When Lifeline volunteer Jo picks up the phone to help someone in a crisis, she often thinks about when she was the caller on the other end of the line. She phoned the helpline once about 15 years ago and that conversation had an enormous impact on…

IVF experts say there's been an uptick in nervous parents reaching out for reassurance after two devastating mix...

Newborn screening tests detect more diseases but present a range of legal, financial and privacy issues that researchers...

Content creator and science educator Michelle Wong lives by the three-second rule. She uses her chemistry PhD knowledge to debunk misinformation about cosmetics while knowing her 500,000 followers will give each of her videos just three seconds…

With jaws so big and teeth so sharp, you can almost hear the terrifying roar of a tyrannosaurus rex when coming face-to-face with one of the most well-preserved dinosaur fossils on the planet. Up to 250,000 visitors to the Melbourne Museum are…

The $18 million suburban hub trial that started in February 2021 will end on June 30 because not enough people are using them. Offices in Footscray, Dandenong, Essendon Fields, Mulgrave and Williams Landing were set up with monitors, meeting rooms,…

A former Coles executive has admitted stealing $1.9 million from the national supermarket giant but a judge said his offending was so inexplicable and stupid he must undergo further psychiatric testing.

A breastfeeding mother and her child have been kicked out of a Melbourne court because the judge was concerned she would be a distraction.