NSW Police are investigating the death of a man in a Corowa pub on Saturday morning before the AFL grand final celebrations began. Read more.

A driver and passenger got into a pickle when they decided to drive into floodwaters on Arundels Lane south of Wangaratta on Saturday. Read more.

Mud and utes go together any day – but even more so at the Deni Ute Muster. Read more.

The Murray River in Albury is expected to hit major flood levels after Lake Hume discharges were increased at the weekend. Read more.

ALBURY basketball great Lauren Jackson is pregnant. Read more.

Showers and 15 degrees today.

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Western Power crews have worked through the night to restore power to more than 24,000 people across Perth and the South West, even as wild winds persisted throughout the city. Read more.

Carmen Maher was making a simple trip she had completed hundreds of times before. This time, on November 18 1995, the 18-year-old fell asleep at the wheel, ran off the road at 100km/h and struck a tree. Read more.

Most adults struggle to crack a whip, let alone a two-year-old – but Logan Anderson does just fine. It’s something the Mudgee boy has done since he could walk, said his mum, Alicia. Read more.

South Australia’s wet weather upset long weekend plans for many, but few can say it has turned what is supposed to be the best day of their life upside down. Rowena Willson was due to marry her partner, Daniel McCall, outdoors at her sister Madeline Hennessy’s property off Research Road in Nuriootpa on Saturday, in front of 110 guests. Read more.

It's an affluent suburb known for its boutiques and fine dining, not wildlife sightings. Which is why the community is baffled as to how a deer came to be on a busy road in Woollahra during peak hour. Read more.

Jake Stringer – AFL premiership player. The 22-year-old from Bendigo etched his name into Western Bulldogs folklore on Saturday when he helped the Dogs to their first AFL premiership since 1954. Read more.

When you talk to a stranger on a park bench, anything can happen, from a pleasant time-passer to the start of a lifelong friendship. Maureen and Tony Wheeler famously met on a bench in 1970 in London's Regent's Park, fell in love, and later founded the Lonely Planet travel guides.

Claire Dixon just wants people to look up from their phones and talk to one another. Read more.

It is the chocolate they miss the most, the families, burdened with restless children and the anger of seeing their crops washed away, stranded for up to a month on inland islands in the middle of NSW. Read more.

Forever is over. Dust off the trophy cabinet. Turn on the porch lights. Finally, Cronulla have done it. After 49 years of misery, misfortune and missed opportunities, the Sharks have managed what no team to wear the sky blue before them had done.​ Read more.

National news

Seventy years is a long time to wait to find out what really happened. There was, of course, a telegram. It just said that Private Bill Fairy died of exhaustion in hospital at Changi, the Japanese POW camp. A beating or malnutrition perhaps? The answers never came. Read more.

Kevin Rudd has said another country offered to nominate him for the top job at the United Nations after the Turnbull government knocked back his bid. Read more.

Communication failures have been blamed for more than a thousand deaths in plane crashes, warns an Australian academic who has reviewed the language pilots and air traffic controllers use. Read more.

LONDON: When Araceli's husband told her the couple would not accept a dinner invitation, she was angry. But her husband was no average inattentive spouse – as is made clear in his newly declassified MI5 file. Read more.

JERUSALEM: The crowd was silent but for the sound of cameras and sobs and the lone voice of a soldier leading the coffin in a song of mourning at the funeral of Israeli statesman and visionary Shimon Peres. Read more.

NEW DELHI: In a country where philanthropy has yet to take root, a simple idea is growing. In Bhilwara, Rajasthan, India, a Wall of Kindness is groaning under the weight of all the clothes, books, shoes, school bags, kitchen utensils, and books that have been donated by residents. Read more.

1781 – French and Americans cut off British supplies at Gloucester

2011 – Amanda Knox murder conviction overturned in Italy

2005 – Hurricane Stan bears down on Mexico

1964 – Clive Owen born

Just a month before he celebrates his 83rd birthday, Ronald Leggett will take to Melbourne's streets and walk five kilometres in the Sunday AgeCity2Sea.

But the great-grandfather of six, would rather be running. Read more.