I was all keen about installing either solar assisted hot water or perhaps even solar power which feeds back to the grid at our rental house (the house we intend to move back into when we return to Australia). However,

Man charged after crashing car after drinking He had taken Stilnox, and remembers nothing Charges dropped because he was 'sleep driving'

ALLCO Finance says it has completed the sale of its US Tehachapi wind farm assets, and has cut its senior debt by $230 million as a result.

WESTPAC has merged its consumer and business banking businesses then split the new entity into separate service and product divisions.

TELSTRA has ended discussions with unions about a new enterprise agreement, after accusing them of knowingly putting forward prohibited content as part of a side agreement.

WOODSIDE Petroleum has posted a 52pc jump in second quarter sales on higher production and soaring oil prices.

FORMER Home and Away actor Michael McLindon has been sentenced to a maximum six years in jail for raping a woman whose drink he spiked.

PARENTS have been stunned by the alleged schoolyard rape of a boy, 7, by a teenage boy, 14, in a small far north Queensland town.

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson will pay their respects to SAS Signaller Sean McCarthy at his funeral tomorrow.

A FORMER Adelaide magistrate who lost a son in the 2002 Bali bombings says the death penalty facing his son's killers is a deplorable, barbaric act that should never happen.

LAWYERS today confirmed a disciplinary hearing is ready to proceed against a doctor who was Queensland's chief health officer when surgeon Jayant Patel was operating in Bundaberg.

A MAN is in hospital with suspected spinal injuries after crashing his light aircraft in northwest Queensland.

AN HIV-positive man jailed for endangering life by having unprotected sex with three woman did not know he was risking their lives, an appeals court has been told.

FORMER Victorian Liberal premier Lindsay Thompson has died aged 84.

A RETIRED fruiterer accused of murdering his wife of more than 50 years was granted bail when he appeared in court today.

A GROUP of Australian zoo keepers is celebrating its first litter of Tasmanian devils, bred to safeguard against the marsupial's extinction.

A TRUCK has slammed into the back of a four-wheel drive killing an elderly woman and seriously injuring her male companion south-east of Melbourne.

POLICE have confiscated a $50,000 Porsche after they caught its "moron" owner driving at 154km/h in Melbourne's inner-city Lygon Street.

THE father of two girls repeatedly raped by a Catholic priest has questioned the credibility of Bishop Anthony Fisher and his role in the church and World Youth Day (WYD).

A TASMANIAN computer technician who considered himself a beast has been given a suspended jail sentence after being caught possessing bestiality images.