Here is what we know about a man armed with a makeshift flamethrower who launched a fiery attack on demonstrators in Colorado ...

Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes has appeared before a committee inquiry into this year's state budget estimates.

Australians are eating more chicken than ever before, with the average person consuming 50 kilograms every year.

The Fair Work Commission has increased the minimum wage for millions of workers by 3.5 per cent.

A man has been charged with murder after a suspected drug deal gone wrong in Sydney's south-west.

Emergency services were called to the three-storey apartment complex in Box Hill at 7.50pm yesterday and saw flames on the second storey.

Erin Patterson has been in the witness box in the Supreme Court for a second day.

An alleged 330kg drug importation scheme has been undone after police narrowed in on the mastermind in Sydney.