Sydney commuters are in for an easier run home as the worst of the wintry weather dissipates for the day - and probably the rest of the month.

Water has started spilling over the Warragamba Dam wall for the first time since 2013, but the flood threat for low-lying areas along the Nepean River has been revised downwards.

Stacy Smith's family were forced to quit their new beachside home after mould rotted the carpet of one of the children's bedrooms and infiltrated the walls and ceiling, resulting in dangerously high levels of mycotoxins.

Drone vision of great white shark lurking near unsuspecting surfers emerges

An unusual orange tinge in Melbourne's sky on Wednesday night is the result of the fires in Western Australia, almost 3000 kilometres away.

Sydney, the rain is coming to drench your balmy spring, and it is set to remain for a week. But it will bring a much needed relief for allergy sufferers.

Residents outraged as hundreds scheduled to lose power in 40 degree heat.

Sydneysiders can expect rising humidity in coming days, making the apparently endless summer seem a bit more uncomfortable.

Time to dig out the electric blanket.

For the first time this year the mercury has dipped below zero in Canberra.

At least 10 people have died in northern Japan after a powerful typhoon pounded the region.

Destruction of more than 200,000 hectares of threatened species habitat has been approved by the federal government in the past decade, a report shows.

Heavy snowfalls over the central ranges all the way up to New England caused traffic chaos on NSW roads on Friday, a day when even Queenslanders woke to a blanket of white.

Many of Sydney's commuters are in for a sweltering journey to and from work today as temperatures soar towards the high 30s ahead a late afternoon cool change.

The past five years have been the hottest on record.